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Rethinking long-term community investment
REGENERATION

Rethinking long-term community investment

By Nick Kemp | 10 September 2025

As the UK Shared Prosperity Fund ends and the Growth Mission Fund and trailblazer neighbourhoods emerge, Nick Kemp explores how councils can embrace adaptive models and global insights, and champio...

REGENERATION

Regen scheme problems double cost of scheme

By Neil Merrick | 03 September 2025

Poor communication between council departments and high staff turnover have been blamed for major...

PLACE-MAKING

Engage, design, deliver: how collaboration can boost a community's prospects

By Ross Aitchison | 02 September 2025

With a collectively minded approach to engagement and design, aspirational place policies can del...

REGENERATION

Regeneration can sometimes look like decline, until it doesn't

By Andrew Carter | 13 August 2025

Many local authorities are making brave decisions on high street renewal, often with limited reso...

PLANNING

District plea over planning powers

By Neil Merrick | 13 August 2025

District councils have appealed to ministers not to leave them out of planning decisions once fre...

TRANSFORMATION

A council on a mission

By Cllr Lisa Evans | 02 July 2025

Mission-based working is transforming Stockton-on-Tees by empowering communities and driving chan...

INVESTMENT

Green Book Review: Evolution not revolution for local investment

By Simon Dancer | 19 June 2025

Treasury's latest review of the Green Book holds the line on orthodoxy but offers cautious encour...

INVESTMENT

We need to concentrate on delivery

By Cllr James Lewis | 16 June 2025

'There is a risk we spend too much time talking about shiny buildings in city centres and neglect...

PROCUREMENT

The blueprints for success of council companies

By Perry Holmes | 12 June 2025

Peter Ware and Perry Holmes look at how Medway Development Company and SCAPE are shaping the futu...

HEALTH

Finding flickers of light

By Matthew Taylor | 03 June 2025

Despite the obstacles to multi-agency working, there are green shoots in joint efforts to produce...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Partnership working is essential

By Louise Gittens | 02 June 2025

By fostering stronger connections, local government can harness cutting-edge solutions, leverage ...

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Commercial Governance and Corporate Energy Lead

Grade 12 £61,056 - £64,927 (Bar at £63,619) per annum pro rata

Commercial Governance and Corporate Energy is a recently formed team. Apply for this job

Manchester City Council

Strategic Director, Corporate Services

£159,862 - £167,495 per annum

Bradford is at an extraordinary moment of transformation Apply for this job

City of Bradford MDC

Programme Manager - WMF2246e

£56,883 - £59,198

The Capital Programme team is responsible for the core delivery of the Council’s c. £80-100m/year Capital Programme Apply for this job

Westmorland and Furness Council