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So there it is then. After months of speculation, the gauntlet for the most significant rewiring of central-local state functionality in decades has been laid down. While this particular set piece has only been in play since the election in July, it also represents a significant step forward in a longer-term process: the gradual reshaping […]
Originally published in the Local Government Chronicle – 14/05/2024 Whatever you call it, ‘levelling up’ depends on solving the housing crisis – a feat that can’t happen without subregional planning, argues Localis head of research, Joe Fyans. Last Thursday’s local elections spelled the beginning of the end of the current political cycle and, it seems extremely […]
Originally published in the MJ – 23/09/2024 The new Government’s commitment to fixing foundations brings a chance for a long-term vision of renewal for the nation’s pubs, argues Joe Fyans The decline of the British local pub is an issue well-known to punters and policymakers alike. At Localis, we have been working with the British […]
Originally Published by the Local Government Chronicle – 10/06/2024 The opening salvoes of the general election have been as predictably dismal and dispiriting as one can imagine, as we reach the midway mark of what has turned out to be a rather low, dishonest decade. With the masking of very imminent choices over increasing tax […]
Originally published by the MJ – 07/05/2024 The election results should give greater purchase for pushing through Rachel Reeves’ take on industrial strategy and addressing the continued national productivity failure, says Jonathan Werran. If, according to President Lyndon Baines Johnson, when he was master of the U.S. Senate, the first rule of politics is to […]
Originally Published by the MJ – 07/05/2024 Jonathan Werran sets out what is needed during the next political cycle if regeneration is to be successful, including a return to regional spatial planning. The results of the recent local elections are counted. All that remains is for the date of the next General Election to be […]
Originally Published in the MJ – 03/05/24 Jonathan Werran picks out the highlights from the local and mayoral poll results so far, and he argues the case for a more stable set of electoral cycles. The first rule in commenting on local elections is to declare that they should not be treated as ‘glorified national […]
Originally Published in the MJ – 30/04/2024 Forty years for the passing of the Rates Act 1984, how relevant are the provisions designed to give central government control over the governance of local taxation and expenditure, asks Jonathan Werran Among the many anniversaries we are celebrating this year, the fortieth year of the passing of […]
Originally published in the MJ – 8/04/2024 As Localis publishes an essay collection looking at how homes and developments may be built in harmony with existing communities, Jonathan Werran considers the history of housing and planning. That our word ‘economy’ derives from the ancient Greek ‘o??os’, meaning household, is normally a decent ruse for reducing […]
The first budget of a new governing party, particularly one which last saw power in a very different UK, ought to tell us something about the type of country they are looking to create. This vision is of course connected to the answer to a broader question: why did people vote Labour in July? There […]