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When your city is viewed as a ‘working class theme park’ you have to shake things up

There are many people who have a traditional view of Salford. They remember it as ...

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A new economics agenda for a new minister for cities

Within the context of greater decentralisation, the core cities (and others) now have the opportunity ...

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Risky business?

They didn’t work particularly well last time, will it be any different this time? Rupert ...

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Putting the local into LEPs

Karen Leach reveals what proposals from local enterprise partnerships in the west midlands tell us ...

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Designs on growth

While other towns and cities have seen their economies shrink, Warrington continues to grow. Andy ...

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Decisions, decisions

Are we expecting too much from local enterprise partnerships? Sarah Longlands and Austin Macauley examine ...

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Time to learn from Wales

The greater flexibility that devolution has brought to Wales exposes the shortcomings of England’s approach ...

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Raising the capital needed for growth

Major investment in infrastructure is needed to achieve the local economic growth sought by UK ...

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The mutual trading platform

This is Regather, a trading co-operative which aims to mutualise a chunk of Sheffield’s local ...

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Time for TIF

We need an alternative which local communities can use to leverage funding to create new ...