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Will devolution deliver on health and growth?
DEVOLUTION

Will devolution deliver on health and growth?

By Mariah Kelly | 12 September 2025

The Government must use the English Devolution Bill to set the framework required for Strategic Authorities to fulfil their role in improving the nation’s health, say Mariah Kelly and Katherine Mer...

DEVOLUTION

Eyes on the prize

By Piali Das Gupta | 08 September 2025

Devolution and reorganisation should go hand-in-hand to achieve the best results, writes Piali Da...

DEVOLUTION

Misguided optimism on devo?

By Colin Copus | 28 August 2025

Steve Leach and Colin Copus argue that a narrative of a shift away from centralisation is buildin...

DEVOLUTION

Devolution revolution?

By Laura Hughes | 21 August 2025

As the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill begins its passage through Parliament, L...

DEVOLUTION

Platforms for change

By Max Wide | 14 August 2025

Now should be the time to reflect, learn and proceed with insight and refreshed practices if the ...

DEVOLUTION

Devon and Torbay: short on time but long on ambition

By Heather Jameson | 13 August 2025

It may be the newest devolution deal, but Devon and Torbay County Combined Authority’s future is ...

HOUSING

Create a strategic planning system that is long-term and consistent

By Simon Edwards | 31 July 2025

Allowing mayors the ability to rewrite spatial development strategies prepared by councils runs o...

DEVOLUTION

Future-proofing devolution

By Professor John Denham | 14 July 2025

Devolution will need strong statutory underpinning and a long-term, cross-departmental ambition i...

PLACE-MAKING

Place is dead, long live Place!

By Stephen Moir | 30 June 2025

It’s time to embrace the opportunity of reform to really put place to the forefront of all that w...

DEVOLUTION

The new health duty on strategic authorities: getting it right

By Tom Lloyd Goodwin | 27 June 2025

If designed and implemented effectively, the new health duty on strategic authorities could play ...

STRONGER THINGS

Colouring in public sector reform

By Jessica Studdert | 29 May 2025

Setting the scene ahead of New Local’s Stronger Things festival, Jessica Studdert says it is time...

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