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REORGANISATION

LGR: Culture eats strategy for breakfast

By Adele Gritten | 15 May 2025

Organisational culture is crucial to the success of local government reorganisation, writes Adele...

REORGANISATION

War of words over Surrey CC reorganisation plan

By Dan Peters | 14 May 2025

Opposition Surrey CC members have argued a plan for two new unitary authorities in the county was...

REGENERATION

Regeneration: Opportunity knocks

By David Blackman | 14 May 2025

David Blackman talks to leading figures about the prospects for regeneration following the propos...

REORGANISATION

Sector annoyance at Government's revised LGR feedback letters

By Paul Marinko | 14 May 2025

Whitehall’s decision to send revised reorganisation feedback letters has stoked sector frustration.

FINANCE

Reasons to cheer – but the work isn't finished

By Jason Lowther | 13 May 2025

Jason Lowther says the new Government has got off to a promising start on rectifying the many cri...

REORGANISATION

Debt hurdle remains for reorganisation plans

By Martin Ford | 13 May 2025

Multi-billion pound debts remain a point of contention in reorganisation negotiations as the dead...

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

Catching the money falling between the silos

By Donna Hall | 11 May 2025

The goal of radical place leadership is to embed and systematise relational working, and research...

GOVERNANCE

Filling in the holes in local democracy

By Mel Stevens | 08 May 2025

Mel Stevens considers where the new democratic deficits will lie in the new local government land...

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

A shared definition of 'neighbourhoods' is important

By Jessica Studdert | 08 May 2025

Jessica Studdert says that for real impact at a hyperlocal level, neighbourhoods need to be consi...

PODCASTS

Our World is Local: Local government reorganisation with Simon Kaye

07 May 2025

Simon Kaye, policy director at the think tank Reform, explores the competing visions for future c...