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By Cllr. Sam Chapman-Allen, chairman, District Councils’ Network District councils need freedom and certainty if their critical services – that promote good health and well-being and deliver housing and economic growth – are to continue on a sustainable footing. Freedom is ultimately about greater fiscal autonomy: a wider range of sources of finance, including taxes […]
By Joe Fyans, Head of Research, Localis Contemplating what the financial situation of local government might be in 2030, I find myself thinking about what state our national ambition to decarbonise the economy will be in by that same year. From the vantage point of Localis, having conducted several studies in recent years on the […]
By Jonathan Owen, chief executive, the National Association of Local Councils It is almost always the case that any discussion or debate about local government finance isn’t really about local government finance at all. Because in short, it focusses on just one part of the local government family. Namely the three hundred or so county, […]
As climate shifts worldwide, councils across England are being hit by increasingly extreme weather patterns including violent storm surges, unbearable temperatures and widespread flooding. Even under the most minimal of warming scenarios, infrastructure, public health, and GDP will all worsen due to the weighty pressure of extreme weather events. Different areas are undergoing their own […]
Well that didn’t go to plan. The era-defining crash and burn of Liz Truss’s short-lived premiership ushers in what might well be the endgame for a shape-shifting succession of Conservative leaders since 2010. In seeking to correct the disastrous course of his immediate predecessor and bail out the rising bilgy waters from a somewhat stricken […]
The author G.K. Chesterton, one of Kensington and Chelsea’s more notable and original localists (see ‘The Napoleon of Notting Hill’), once noted that, ‘When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.’ When it comes to the everyday functions of local authorities and how […]
Liz Truss entered office facing the fiercest economic headwinds in living memory, with rising inflation, inexorable increases in energy, labour market bottlenecks and plummeting consumer confidence. As the calendar would have it, 100th day will come to pass on 15 December in the middle of the Christmas shopping season which threatens to break a retail […]
We will not see her like again. As the nation enters a ten-day period of national mourning, the detailed, long-term planning for Operation London Bridge smoothly meshes together. With all this going on at the national stage, the local and personal impact of our longest-serving monarch continues to reverberate in hearts and memories in all […]
The policies announced in today’s Queen’s Speech are designed to do three things. In reverse order of national importance these are: to provide some red meat for a weary and irritated party base; to chart a path to prosperity which might unite a kingdom which appears, after last week’s local elections, to be more divided […]
Since it was elected in 2019, the government has declared two key ambitions. Firstly, a more economically balanced country, underscored by the rebranding of the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, and the Levelling Up White Paper. And secondly, tackling climate change as the UK became the first major economy to set a legally […]