Good Local Economics

Gagging of charities is like ‘totalitarian regime’

Voluntary groups delivering services are backing off from campaigning for the interests of their service users and communities. This is the conclusion of the latest in a series of reports from the National Coalition for Independent Action looking at how charities and voluntary groups involved with service delivery are faring in today’s world of cuts and contracts.

Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government

Message to public sector: think of the consequences of cuts

Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government

What’s most important? It isn’t local – it’s small

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

It’s time for civic capitalism

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Bristol: A city ripe for systems change?

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Housing Local Government Regeneration

How much brownfield land is available for housing?

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Housing Local Government Regeneration

We shouldn’t give up on estate renewal

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Systems change in 66 days

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

From ‘me towns’ to ‘we towns’

Book review: How to save our town centres: A radical agenda for the future of high streets

By Julian Dobson, Policy Press, 2015

Review by Tony Baldwinson

Empty shops. Charity shops. Betting shops. The death and decay of our high streets has been troubling us for at least seven years. Longer, if you live in areas like the coalfield villages in the Welsh valleys and others north of Watford. Julian Dobson has written a great book here on what has gone wrong and, more importantly, what can we now do to rejuvenate our town centres. This is long overdue, and vital to our quality of living.