Growth, reform and trust: Creating places that deliver the potential of LGR
DCN invited Inner Circle Consulting to produce a paper setting out how places might best respond to the challenges and opportunities of local government reorganisation. “The greatest risk is losing momentum and settling for change that isn’t change. Instead, LGR must...
Council shake-up must promote sustainable reform over short-term fixes
Reorganisation could create larger versions of dysfunctionality, warns independent report Local government reorganisation (LGR) risks reinforcing the status quo by creating “bigger, suboptimal organisations”, which fail to bring about a step change in public service...
‘We need more homes, not just more planning permissions’
Cllr Richard Wright, the DCN’s planning spokesperson, has responded to the publication of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. “We want to see more of the homes and infrastructure that our communities so desperately need. There is lots to welcome in this new Bill:...