A strong sense of place is core to the mission and purpose of local government. Our role is to act as anchors, stewards, and conveners of the local system, supporting elected […]

16th September, 2025

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Mayoral Combined Authorities (MCAs) have never truly been designed; they’ve evolved. Greater Manchester — the starter culture for all MCAs — looked like a reasonably recognisable set of shared functional […]

21st July, 2025

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‘If you were going to design English local government from scratch, you wouldn’t have come up with this.’ Versions of this observation will be familiar to many in and around […]

18th July, 2025

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