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Understanding middle class community activism

The middle classes are better at getting what they want from local services. So if ...

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The building blocks to more innovative cities

Where cities have identified a need – through a robust and realistic understanding of their ...

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Council finance… welcome to the twilight zone

Mr Pickles' manipulation of finance can only be compared to those people who used to ...

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Localism in Zambia

Zambia’s Constituency Development Fund proves how much more can be achieved when local people are ...

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Real sustainability starts at the local level

There are a number of joined up approaches to real local sustainability developing around the ...

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Decentralisation won’t bring power to the people

All of this could mean that the transference of power away from institutions of local ...

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Seeing through ‘the fog’: Local government resource review in London

The government doesn’t have an easy road ahead, but, it must use the LGRR to ...

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The People’s Budget – an antidote to meaningless consultation

Participatory Budgeting is a fantastic antidote to the constant trickle of consultation over policy matters ...

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A People’s Budget: why not just do it?

So participatory budgeting can be an important step in the quest for that elusive holy ...

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Whether you’re co-op or Big Society – involving communities is key

Restructuring is occurring at the local level and decisions made in the coming years will ...