Good Local Economics

It’s time for regeneration to be regenerated!

Austerity has had many victims, but the one I mourn the most is the regeneration community’s spirit. Five years of resource constriction by a government keen to sweep away any vestiges of their predecessors’ ‘big government’ spending – think RDAs, Planning Policy – before replacing them with their own ‘lighter touch’ structures – think Leps and the NPPF – has left those on the side of the angels feeling like they’re single-handedly pulling whole communities up a steep hill with a boa contrictor around their neck.

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

East Midlands is the UK economy’s bellwether

Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Why don’t universities spend more locally?

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How we did it: Totnes local enterprise incubator

Good Local Economics

You can write good grant applications, but can you close a deal?

Good Local Economics

Can universities use their spending power to deliver social change?

Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Can Leps focus on economic needs as well as opportunities?

Communities Finance Good Local Economics Local Government

Six steps to tackle household debt: findings from The Netherlands

Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Let the industrial north prosper again

The government has lauded the recent economic recovery and ‘rebalancing the economy’ has been one of the popular phrases of the coalition. But 80% of new private sector jobs are in London and many people in the north are not feeling the effects of the recent economic recovery.