Showing posts with label localism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label localism. Show all posts
Friday, 5 April 2019

Conservatives - what sort of society do you want? Some thoughts.

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If the Conservative Party in the UK wants to thrive in the future it needs - as I've said before - to start thinking about sociology: ...
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Wednesday, 25 May 2016

Local protectionism is no way to raise economic growth in poor places - a critique of inclusive growth

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**** The RSA, that trendiest of slightly left wing think tanks, has launched a thing called the 'Inclusive Growth Commission': Cha...
Saturday, 5 September 2015

Quote of the day - on 'buying local'

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**** It is widely held that, by some feat of magic, buying stuff at higher prices because it is 'locally-sourced' or 'independen...
Wednesday, 4 December 2013

Empathy in regeneration: hugging the poor and saying 'there, there'

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**** Julia Unwin, boss of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has written a book about combatting poverty. I have yet to read it but I...
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Thursday, 28 March 2013

So much for localism...

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**** Councils can have localism just so long as they do as they're told by the unelected: The research shows more than half of the...
Wednesday, 6 June 2012

First salvo in the town planners' war on community is fired...

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**** I recall a planner - a very senior planner - describing the localism act and its neighbourhood planning ideas as "the thin end o...
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Thursday, 27 October 2011

The only way to achieve this would be to scrap it...

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**** ...surely? The Government attempted to quell concern that the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) could effectively become a ‘devel...
Tuesday, 30 August 2011

How to create a housing crisis - remove the right to develop!

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Amidst all the special pleading and NIMBY critiques of proposals to change the planning system – you know make it a little simpler so as t...
Tuesday, 5 July 2011

Planners aren't anti-business. Oh no...

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**** Both Civic Voice and the RTPI are concerned that government amendments to the Localism Bill in May , which would allow neighbourhood...
Sunday, 1 May 2011

A question for Peter Oborne - and maybe for central office

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**** According to Peter Oborne , my election campaign is being centrally directed and is an insult to localism. Well, not mine but Tory lo...
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Tuesday, 23 November 2010

Thoughts on the planning system....

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I was thinking today - in one of those idle moments - why it is that we are so conflicted about ownership. And, more importantly, why we pe...
Saturday, 17 July 2010

Bradford could just give Cullingworth the cash and let us get on with it?

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**** There’s a dawning realisation that – while the ‘cuts’ will result in an net increase in Government spending by 2014 – they are going to...
Thursday, 24 December 2009

Remember localism? It means local councils decide officers' pay not the Chancellor!

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*** I’m probably in a minority but I think the posing and posturing from all three parties over the pay of senior public servants misses the...
Thursday, 26 November 2009

Dear Caroline...don't we believe in localism?

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*** Caroline Spelman , the Shadow local government and communities secretary has decided to go into bat for the owners of crap local papers ...
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Friday, 18 September 2009

I want my government to be local, approachable and effective - not merely "efficient"

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I recall Arnold Moore, the Managing Director of Knightsbridge Furniture Productions, explaining to me about BS5750 (for young folk that...