The Business Case for Your Council’s Reorganisation is Probably Wrong. Here are Four Reasons Why. Over the next few weeks, UK Citizens will (if they haven’t already) see a steady stream of updates from councils about Local Government…
Your Pension Fund Has a New Mission: Rebuilding Your Town. Here’s What You Need to Know. Your Pension Isn’t Just a Number Anymore
Local Government Reorganisation (LGR), Devolution, Strategic Planning, Growth and Investment The English Devolution White Paper sets out a new devolution architecture for England, centered around Strategic Authorities. These…
Weeknote 24th Jan 2025: Strategic Planning Group (SPG) week and UK Innovation Session 6, Topic 5 of the SPG SDS examinations, Local Growth Plans, old friends and colleagues and Family Forum time.
Labour have actually got their ducks in a row on growth…. The elusive positive growth narrative is already in the hands of the new government, they just need to frame it…
Strategic Planning Part 2.1: Integrated Data — Transport Very tardy part 2 (despite my best efforts). Its been a very busy few weeks second guessing and preparing what the next few months will…
Strategic Planning Part 1: Will open data be the foundation for super-charging Planning Reform What do we even mean by strategic planning and why is data so important
The ‘Devolution Revolution’ Some personal musings on the new paper from Reform Think Tank on reimagining local government structures built for the 21st century…
Transport Planning in the UK: Part 1 A Refresh, Organisations, Infrastructure, Policy, and Housing I thought I’d pick up another light topic that has been sat in my blog backlog. This is the first in a series so stay tuned….
How many houses are we actually building? An insight into how we are currently monitoring housing delivery and how modern approaches to better collection, management and use of data…
Weeknotes Series 5, Eps 5: Projects, Planning and Puppies Back to some Weeknotes, maybe the imminent spring sunshine will give me a bit of consistency in these.
Some Thoughts on Engagement I’ve been involved (to a very tiny percent) in some work we are doing with the LGA and New Local on innovative community engagement and was…
LocalGov Camp 2022; Systems, SEND and Social Care My week was really punctuated by #LocalGov Camp22 and my first LocalCamp, as having come from the slightly more traditional side of local…
Good Growth? A return to 1980s economic policy: a reflection on the mini budget Earlier this summer I chaired an IED webinar, “Good growth — how do we look beyond GDP to support the charge to net zero?”
Weeknotes S5; Eps 3 Vlognotes, LGA, Climate, Multiplied and Integration Deets for the LGA conference programme retrospective (obvs) LGA Conference 2022
Weeknotes S5, Eps2 Growth, Devolution and Bookclub A couple of things I wanted to reflect on this week; one of them was that it’s really tricky at the moment to get time to get these…
A man walked into a bar… (Not my story… credits to https://www.facebook.com/AspergerSyndromeAwareness/)
Weeknotes S4, Eps 6 Planning Derision and Development Days Nothing spectacular this week but just a couple of reflections that stick out.
Sunday ramblings….Policy Mess One of the most complex areas of policy is land use planning and economics formed in #localgov. It is also one if the most fundamental…
Weeknotes S4 Eps 4 Outputs vs Impact & Virtual Development Days Hey peeps, hope all is well (my children hate me sating peeps as they think that I am the least cool thing in the entire history of…
