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Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

It’s not risky business if you apply the Ashford model

I was eager to share the experiences we’ve had in Ashford in adopting a more ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Britain’s big cities don’t have a monopoly on growth

A strong emphasis on the big cities to the exclusion of other places runs the ...

Communities Economic Development Housing Local Government Regeneration

Struggling town centres must create a sense of place

To make town centres resilient they need to be more compact and have more space ...

Communities Economic Development Housing Local Government Regeneration

If we’re serious about sustainability, why is the car still king?

We know our reliance on cars is bad for us – bad for our health, ...

Communities Economic Development Finance Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

With full disclosure banking could be a race to the top

Reforms to make banking competition work for consumers have reached an impasse. Do nothing and ...

Communities Regeneration

Placemaking – where’s the manifesto?

If a political party really wants to ‘bring Britain together’, ‘create a brighter more secure ...

Economic Development Finance Good Local Economics Local Government

Money with memory: how to plug local economy leaks

Many town centres are struggling because too much money flowing around the local economy is ...

Good Local Economics

How to… create a high street incubator

The CityLab project in Stirling has proven there is high demand for enterprise support on ...

Local Government Regeneration

Youth innovation brings life back to the high street

TestTown was developed in response to our own original research into youth enterprise and towns ...

Regeneration

High street policy needs to be more ambitious than this

Above all Portas Pilots need to be serious. In most cases they are. But I’m ...