So, before you click to buy reduced price perfumes online, hand over cash in the pub for a power tool, or pick up cheap canned food at your car boot sale, ask yourself where it came from?
We need to increase the treatment options for those with substance misuse issues in order to stop the offending from happening.
Abstract problems such as economic growth or environmental peril can weigh less with voters than concrete questions about the health of their town or where they’re going to live.
The Government should empower local community organisations to take ownership of vacant and derelict high street property, so that they can bring them back into whatever use their economies need.
The effect can be seen in shop vacancy rates, with the highest rates seen in the North East, the Midlands, and Wales.
Households value pharmacies even more after the pandemic – and people want to see more banks after so many have closed.
Pay is a business cost and, in reaction, profit-seeking firms will raise prices, cut worker benefits, slash services, or leave the sector if profits are squeezed.
For all the focus elsewhere, the most important domestic department for the next two years will be the Department of Health.
Problems and risks such as the significant rise in online scams haven’t yet been adequately addressed.
The problem is that spiralling spending demands quickly use up the options which voters don’t notice. Eventually you need other big sources of revenue,
It would be easy to write off the attitude of both as ‘only little earthlings pay taxes’, but the current taxation system allows them to get away with it.
The legislation introduced by the Town and Country Planning Act 1947 is still remarkably unchanged to this day.
It now needs to get real. This is clearly the plan in the next few months, starting with the Queen’s Speech tomorrow, leading to the Levelling Up paper.
The centre isn’t where he or ConservativeHome or anyone else wants it to be. It’s where it is – “Far From Notting Hill”.
Excessively restrictive regulations, overstretched and obstructive council officials, and neglectful and absentee landlords are all barriers to creating a brighter, sustainable future for much-loved town centres.