Accountancy giant Ernst & Young has been hired by the Local Government Association (LGA) to hammer home the business case for Community Budgets to the Treasury, council chiefs will reveal today.
The Local Government Association (LGA) has partnered with the think-tank Localis to launch a report arguing for a locally driven regeneration scheme. The report uses several case studies of successful regeneration schemes around the UK.
A report launched today by local government think-tank, Localis, and umbrella body the Local Government Association (LGA) calls for councils to be given more powers over raising finance to achieve a locally-driven approach to regeneration.
Local government think-tank, Localis, in partnership with the Local Government Association (LGA), will tomorrow launch a report that argues that a new locally-driven approach to regeneration is needed.
In a second post on regeneration, the Alex Thomson of Localis calls on local government to look to the US for new ideas on local growth. Grow your own way, a new report from think-tank Localis looks at local approaches to regeneration and includes a case study on Pittsburgh.
Britain has a long history of regenerating local areas that had, for whatever reason, failed to prosper.
Communities secretary Eric Pickles this week vowed to axe two government regulations for every one his department introduces ? and has called on the rest of Whitehall to do the same. The commitment goes beyond the long-standing aim of the coalition, contained within its ‘Programme for government’, to cut red tape by introducing a ‘one-in, one-out’ rule, ‘whereby no new regulation is brought in without other regulations being cut by a greater amount’.
Housing minister Grant Shapps has announced a £30 million fund to help people who want to build their own home and has pledged to double the size of the self-build housing industry in Britain. Shapps has gone to the Netherlands with Channel 4’s Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud, who has just been appointed by the National Self Build Association as a champion for the industry.
The elected mayoral model for cities is not off the table, local government minister Greg Clark has insisted – despite it being rejected by nine out of the 10 cities voting on it last week. Speaking to LGC in the wake of last weeks mayoral referendums, Mr Clark insisted that with Leicester, Liverpool and Salford city councils now run by mayors, and with Bristol set to join them in November, there was now a sufficient core of cities with elected mayors and more would likely follow.
Labour Party candidates have won mayoral elections in both Liverpool and Salford. In Liverpool, Joe Anderson won with 58,458 votes, beating second-place Liam Fogarty, an independent candidate who gained 8,292 votes. The Liberal Democrat candidate Richard Kemp came third with 6,238 votes. The turnout in the election was 30.8%.