This year Localis will be hosting its Labour Party Conference fringe events in the ballroom at the Mercure Brighton Seafront Hotel – 149 Kings Road, Brighton, BN1 2PP Building Communities – a stewardship model for a housing-led recovery? This event, promoted jointly with Countryside Properties, will take place between 09.00 a.m. and 10.00 a.m. on Monday 27 September […]
Defining the good and the useful The Green Paper for Transforming Public Procurement sets out to promote value and transparency at the expense of red-tape. As key principles of public procurement, value for money, the public good, integrity, efficiency, fair treatment of suppliers, non-discrimination and transparency are to be enshrined in law. At the level […]
Defining the good and the useful The Green Paper for Transforming Public Procurement sets out to promote value and transparency at the expense of red-tape. As a principle of public procurement, value for money, the public good, integrity, efficiency, fair treatment of suppliers, non-discrimination and transparency are to be enshrined in law. In a Localis report […]
Can we defend and renew the case for local government’s commitment to dynamic commercial activity in the political and financial climate? About this event In the discussion to mark the launch of the forthcoming report by Human Engine and Localis, ‘Commercial Edge: renewing the case for the local investment state’, we wanted to seize the opportunity […]
As the government looks to give a more definite shape to the levelling up agenda through the forthcoming white paper, it is more important than ever to challenge and interrogate the concept, its origins and its goals. Discussions are warranted over exactly what “Levelling Up” will entail across the broad array of policy interventions it […]
A Localis / Social Value UK Webinar on transparency in the procurement world. About this event A free webinar, facilitated by Localis and Social Value UK The Green Paper for Transforming Public Procurement sets out to promote value and transparency at the expense of red-tape. As a principle of public procurement, transparency is to be […]
After successive one-year stop gap spending rounds, one occasioned by Brexit and the next by pandemic uncertainties, a long-term public finance settlement is as much desperately needed as it is unavoidable. But don’t bet the bank on there being another stop-gap financial settlement. To preserve the coherence of the local state, our councils need a […]
In the latest instalment of our ‘Building for Renewal’ programme of housing and planning webinars, Localis examined the role of the One Public Estate programme in unlocking surplus land nationwide for housebuilding. Established in 2013, One Public Estate (OPE) is a national programme delivered in partnership by the Office of Government Property (OGP) within the Cabinet Office […]
Writing in 1912, Hilaire Belloc warned: “change your hearts or you will lose your inns and you will deserve to have lost them”. Should such a calamity unfold, Belloc added that “you will have lost the last of England”. In our report ‘The Power of Pubs’ Localis looked at the attempts made in 2020 by […]
Last autumn, Oxford City Council commissioned Localis to explore the potential for stronger city governance and creative thinking to successfully address some of its myriad complex place policy challenges – including Covid-19 recovery response, inclusive growth both locally and linked to the Arc, transport connectivity and decarbonisation. As a coherent economic entity, Oxford possesses an […]