As Nick Clegg decides who to pursue a political relationship with in the battle for Number 10, some are asking whether the Lib Dems and the Tories could ever work well together in a co-operative government.
Councils and their partners will have to take a small scale, practical, bottom up approach to renewal in deprived areas in anticipation of cuts to regeneration funding and severe public spending restraint, a thinktank has said.
Cuts to regeneration spending will have dire consequences on deprived areas and could prove a false economy by threatening the pace of overall economic recovery, the organisation for UK economic development practioners has warned.
Our political system is in need of large-scale systemic reform. For decades successive governments have pursued an approach to policy making which has centralised power and decision making to the detriment of local people, communities, local government and public services
Total Place should not be about making cost savings (although it will lead to them), or political maneuvering within central government. It is therefore a challenge for the next government to take Total Place forward in the right manner.
A re-elected Labour government would allow the introduction of London-style city region mayors in conurbations like Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham and would set up another commission to consider the future of local government finance
Ambitious plans for all 33 London authorities to share financial and HR systems are being floated to finance directors, in a bid to make substantial savings
Pubs, post offices and gardeners are among those who will benefit from measures the government has agreed to take forward in response to the first round of the Sustainable Communities Act.
The government today announces a “mutual manifesto” as it unveils plans to allow people to own and run a plethora of local services including council estates and SureStart centres.
David Cameron is pledging that a Conservative government would train a 5,000 strong “neighbourhood army” to set up community groups, based on an idea from the U.S.