Local Government

Mapping the transition to the new economy

Recently New Start featured a blog championing a manifesto for local economies which covered many ideas of relevance to a new initiative, the Real Economy Lab, a collaborative investigation exploring and mind-mapping a practical, sustainable, equitable new economy as it unfolds around the globe.

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Older industrial Britain being left behind

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A manifesto for local economies

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Q & A with Tony Armstrong: Keeping services local

Local Government Regeneration

Can devolution create better places?

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Will devolution create better places?

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Three guiding principles of regeneration for all

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The time is right for new models of housing

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Salford: A social value city

Salford city mayor Ian Stewart and professor Maggie Pearson from Salford University and the Salford social value pledge

In 2014 Salford made a pledge to become a ‘social value city’. Anne Lythgoe reports on progress so far.

Ian Stewart, the elected city mayor of Salford, has stated that the area has an ambition to become a ‘social value city’ where the majority of private, public, community and voluntary sector organisations are signed up to a social value charter and including social value in all their activities.