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Size of Treasury's business rate 'clawback' could rise to £3.5bn
Oct 17, 2011 by: Dan Drillsma-Milgrom, LGC
Government proposals to allow councils to retain local business rates could mean that as much as £3.5bn of local authority-collected cash is retained by the Treasury. Finance ...
Cameron says government has 'localist plan' for growth
Oct 6, 2011 by: LGC
David Cameron has said the government will continue to do everything it can to free up business to grow as part of what he described as a “localist plan” for growth. ...
Cameron 'backs' early intervention foundation
Sep 20, 2011 by: Jim Dunton, LGC
MP Graham Allen believes his proposed early intervention foundation could be created early next year following crucial backing from prime minister David Cameron ...
Business backs reforms to 'creaking' planning system
Sep 19, 2011 by: Jonathan Werran, The MJ
A group of leading businessmen and industrialists has written to The Times blaming a 'creaking planning system' for deterring inward investment and stalling the ability of UK ...
The Icing on the Community Cake
by Alex Thomson, Localis (in the MJ)
Strategic Commissioning Is The Future
by Alex Thomson, Localis (on eGov monitor)
Community ownership must be the focus of Miliband’s Labour
by Richard Carr, Localis (on Left Foot Forward)
Neighbourhood planning scheme 'could provide benefits'
by Odgers Berndtson
Power to the People
Posted in Planning, Housing and Economic Development
Commission Impossible?
Posted in Reform and Personalisation of Public Services
Surrey's Big Society
Posted in Reform and Personalisation of Public Services
Funding Infrastructure
Posted in Local Government Finance
Town Hall PLC
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Power to the People
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Is localism helping to deliver Britain's housing needs?
[Oct 3, 2011]
Beyond the City Limits
[Oct 3, 2011]
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