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Preserving green space – a focal point for Big Society action?

Front-loading spending cuts onto local authorities so that they have to either sell land to ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Redrawing district boundaries

Is it possible for a council to avoid cutting staff, maintain local services and keep ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government

Making sense of the links

Understanding how people and groups are networked to each other within an area can help ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government

The new politics of regeneration

In terms of economic development and regeneration, the coalition will face the perennial problem of ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Rights of way

Fed up with traffic-choked streets, local people in an area of north-west London have drawn ...

Communities Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Red tape ‘weeding’ puts green spaces in jeopardy

Our experience of working with communities - many of whom are from disadvantaged neighbourhoods – ...

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Localism shouldn’t be a drain on democracy

As a councillor it is already difficult to explain to people that you have no ...

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Upwardly mobile?

How far will fairness go in tackling social mobility? It’ll pull up short in the ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

All remaining unequal

The government now prefers to talk of fairness rather than equality. So where does that ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Making the pledge

Newly-launched Locality has taken a key role in making the government’s localism and Big Society ...