Using newly digitised local data going back to 1946, this report looks at the role public housebuilding has played in England over the last 80 years to inform the role it should play in the future. It is the second in Centre for Cities’ three-part Restarting Housebuilding series.
Using newly available data on English housebuilding by local authority since 1946, digitised by Centre for Cities, this report investigates whether the current planning system has seen private housebuilding reach rates high enough to meet the new national target for 1.5 million homes in England by the end of the Parliament.
This blog extends some of the analysis in the Spending Time report to include non-urban local authorities. It shows that understanding the rural visitor economy can help contextualise many urban tourism trends in the UK.
Visitor spend is mostly in city centres. Understanding this fact, in combination with the few exceptions to this rule, will be key in the ongoing debate over tourism taxes.
Explore the briefings, blogs and research below for Centre for Cities’ thinking and analysis on how a target-focussed and place-based policy agenda can address the UK’s sluggish productivity, address regional inequality and create a more prosperous country.
The Government will soon publish a white paper on devolution in England. This is likely to be the latest staging post in England's gradual move to having more power held at the level that an...
As well as providing a deep dive into the latest economic data on the UK’s cities and largest towns, Cities Outlook 2024 looks back at how cities have fared since 2010.
With 2024 a likely election year, this year's Cities Outlook looks back at how cities have fared since 2010 and where the economy would be today had pre-2010 trends continued.
The UK economy has flatlined, and all parts of the country are suffering. This won’t change unless productivity growth improves.
In a two-part series of Centre for Cities’ City Minutes podcast, Chief Executive Andrew Carter and Director of Policy and Research Paul Swinney explore the findings and implications of the Centre’s annual snapshot of urban economies across the UK.
No part of the UK has escaped the impact of the flatlining of the UK economy since 2010, according to new analysis by Centre for Cities in Cities Outlook 2024.