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Why did The Treasury not cover Land Value Capture in its Green Book Review?
And why do big infrastructure projects in the UK cost so much more than most of the rest of the world? Image: Land Value Capture in the USA – read how they do it You can read the Government’s One Year Review of the Green Book here “What is the Green Book?” “The Green Book…
Will Treasury let Andy Burnham overhaul local government finance? From his speech at the People’s History Museum
If you’ve not been to the People’s History Museum, have a look here. The ‘PM-in-waiting’ as the media are setting him up as, gave his first policy speech post-by-election at the Museum You can watch the speech in full via the AP here – do have a listen What Mr Burnham is up against is…
How can the CPCA Mayor raise the profile of the Mayoralty with an unfamiliar public in an era of low trust in Politics?
For those of you that have forgotten, the Mayor of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, Paul Bristow included getting a light rail for Cambridge built, and ‘making the Mayoralty matter’ in his manifesto You can browse through his manifesto here. Image: Political Education for Adults (1983) by the old Advisory Council for Adult and…