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‘Tough choices facing councillors as costs for the Civic Quarter project rise.’
Phil Rodgers spotted the calls that city councillors have to make themselves – or pass onto their unitary council successors. At the same time, everything could change (again) with The Chancellor’s Budget Speech in less than 36 hours time. The problem? “Since October 2025, building and borrowing costs have risen sharply” “After £13.7m of proposed…
Minister says Fiscal Devolution Roadmap will give mayors a share of income tax revenue
In a written statement to Parliament earlier today (26 October 2026) the Minister for Local Government told MPs and anyone reading, to watch for the detail of the roadmap “The Fiscal Devolution Roadmap, to be published alongside the Budget, will set out how MSAs will benefit from much greater financial freedom in the years ahead,…
Can we discuss pattern books for buildings for a growing Cambridge?
Cambridge Biomedical Campus submitted its transport strategy to support growth (dated) May 2026 to the Greater Cambridge Shared Planning Service – and its scenarios go as far forward as the year 2050 You can find it in the documents library of the draft local plan in the Third Party Documents sub-heading. It is titled Cambridge…
