Decades have been spent devoting money to fragmented regeneration projects, but does the future lie with community budgets and deal-making? Alex Thomson asks.
Local authorities that have a poor track record for allocating land for housing will still have to find an extra 20 per cent of land on top of their five year land supplies, the government said today.
Enterprise zones in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and London will benefit from enhanced tax reliefs, the chancellor George Osborne has confirmed in his budget speech.
Ultrafast broadband will come to 60 cities, chancellor George Osborne said in a series of Budget announcements on infrastructure investment.
Greater Manchester councils will be able to keep a share of the extra national tax revenues generated in the conurbation under the first city deal to be struck by the government.
Chancellor George Osborne has unveiled plans to lower the costs of borrowing for councils that lay out in advance their long-term spending plans.
Social media is an integral part of service provision says Alex Thomson.
?Britain’s dilemma,’ as Lord Skidelsky writes regarding Localis’s newly launched report Credit Where Credit’s Due, ?is that its economy craves investment but its politics mandates fiscal retrenchment?.
Most clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are set to make a manager their accountable officer, and are choosing primary care trust staff to fill key leadership roles in their organisation.
TFI-News Interviews Localis Chief Executive Alex Thomson about ‘Credit Where Credit’s Due’.