A group of 12 towns in England have been selected to run pilot schemes based on a government-commissioned report on improving high street vitality, the local government minister announced on Saturday.
It’s not an easy time for anyone right now, but spare a thought for council leaders. Faced with the biggest share of cuts in the 2010 spending review, local governments can see the writing on the wall.
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.
Councils need some grow-your-own tools to help promote local regeneration. Extending the community budget pilots nationwide would be a good start. If regeneration was easy, life would be much simpler. Unfortunately thats not the case, as several decades of centrally-led programmes have shown.
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’.