This year Localis will be hosting all its Conservative Party Conference fringe events on Monday 3rd October in the decorous settings of the Banqueting Suite in Birmingham City Council’s historic Council House in Victoria Square. The venue is outside the secure zone and a seven minute walk from the conference centre. After the gold rush – levelling […]
In winter 2021, prompted by the urgency of a sustained post-Covid local economy recovery, Kent County Council commissioned Localis to undertake a study to capture local knowledge and experience from across Kent and Medway and combine this with wider national learning to develop a toolkit enabling places across the county to draw from the successes […]
To what extent can we spark a decade of ingenuity to resolve complex and multi-level place problems? About this event A spirit of innovation and discovery is one of our national characteristics and strengths. However, it has been long noted and acknowledged that as a country we are not strong at diffusing the fruits of […]
Join Localis and PA Consulting for drinks and networking in Harrogate at LGA Conference 2022 – and launch a decade of local innovation About this event Localis is marking another year of prolific localist research output with its groundbreaking reports on policy areas ranging from levelling up to clean growth, retrofitting, social value and environmental management […]
As one of only three regions of the country – the others being London and the East of England – to be net contributors to the Exchequer, the role of the South East region in advancing the levelling up agenda for national renewal remains pivotal. As the bastion of many of the country’s export-driven growth […]
‘True Value: towards ethical public service commissioning’ is a major new research project from Localis which aims to address how we should triangulate the capabilities and willingness of central and local government, a diverse and innovative supplier base and the communities where services will be delivered and projects completed on the ground. Taking as its starting […]
Building sustainably in the era of Net Zero, will be, at heart, an issue of how as much as where we live. What future we wish to create for the society we wish to build our lives into? And how might planning, design and the politics of placemaking optimise the intrinsic connection between our physical […]
The national policy context “Building back better” risks remaining a vapid if effective slogan if we don’t address the challenge of how we go about retrofitting huge swathes of existing housing stock in left-behind parts of the country where the need isn’t as great a need to ‘build, build, build’ as to ‘improve, renovate and […]
This year marks the twentieth anniversary of Localis as an independent think tank dedicated to issues related to politics, public service reform and localism. Our drinks reception will be a timely opportunity to extend gratitude to our supporters, old and new, from all parts of the country who have supported us throughout the years […]
This year Localis will be hosting its Conservative Party Conference fringe events on Monday 4th October in the decorous settings of Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3JL Building Communities – a stewardship model for a housing-led recovery Monday 4th October 2021 from 9.00 a.m. to 10.00 a.m. This Localis fringe, sponsored by Countryside Properties, asked what […]