The challenge to a Party that holds not a single seat in Merseyside.
The Labour council’s planning delays make it harder to fix the mistakes of the 1960s.
LEPs should be allowed to help improve the housing supply.
Our Brownfield Regeneration Fund will clean up contaminated eyesores to make them attractive to developers.
For markets to flourish the traders must take over from maladroit councils.
Lower Business Rates would be a more effective way to revive the town.
The Minister for Cities’ column returns. He will be looking at how local Conservatives are helping to transform the communities they live in for the better.
Cllr Philippa Roe, the Leader of Westminster City Council, says more local incentives and innovation is needed The government has done much in recent years to drive forward public service reform across areas such as education, welfare and health. Good Conservative local government is also doing its bit as regular readers of these pages will […]
Local Government Minister Brandon Lewis with his series celebrating excellence in out Town Halls This week's Champion Council is Lewes District Council. After coming under Conservative control at the beginning of last year, following 18 years of Liberal Democrat administration, the council has undergone a number of major changes to get the council working in […]
Cllr Clare George-Hilley of Croydon Council on how her borough has moved on from rioting The summer riots of 2011 devastated many parts of the UK, including Croydon, where images of the Reeves family store burning to the ground broadcast across the country. The riots left many families homeless and local businesses destroyed, but from […]
Winston Churchill said that: For a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. That is not Lord Heseltine's view. He thinks there is some merit in the Government taking money from business in tax and then giving some back […]
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Local Growth this week launched its first inquiry into the effectiveness of Local Enterprise Zones, recommending a much greater devolution of powers to kick start local economies Secretary to the Group, Giles Roca, explains the findings of the report. In the autumn of 2010, local authorities and business leaders […]
"Rent a flat above a shop," sang Jarvis Cocker (whose mother Christine Connolly lost by one vote as a Conservative council candidate in Bassetlaw.) A sensible change in planning rules should mean that more have the chance to follow Jarvis's advice. Whether it will mean more will be like Common People is another matter. When […]
By Greg Clark MP, the Minister for Cities, and Cllr Matthew Colledge the Leader of Trafford Borough Council Today sees the announcement of a series of groundbreaking deals between the Government and the eight largest English cities outside London – Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle, Nottingham, Bristol and Birmingham. It’s in the spirit of these […]
In 2006 RAF Coltishall closed. The Ministry of Justice took it over and now use part of the site for a sex offenders prison. But the rest of the site has been left empty. It is really quite scandalous the way the state so frequently holds on to land and buildings for years on end, […]