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A number of wild and wonderful geographies are on the table to devolve powers to. Doing so will likely undermine the ability of devolution to improve national economic performance.
Survey data on London’s civil servants and local government office workers shows them to be spending less time in the office than either the private sector or their equivalents in other global cities.
Contrary to recent headlines indicating that the finance industry is coming back to the office, data from Centre for City’s surveys suggests that finance workers in London – and across five other global cities – come into the office less than the average worker in all other industries.
Approaches to reducing emissions will need to vary from place to place. UK cities can learn from places around the world that are using their higher density to decarbonise how we build, travel and generate power.
New survey evidence suggests that in London, older workers spend the most time working from home – not gen z. They report seeing less value to being in the office, but are home working ‘missing managers’ harming the skill development of their younger colleagues?
Workers in central London continue to return to the office, though not as quickly as in other global competitor cities, raising concerns about future economic growth. It seems that...
What are the trade-offs and challenges as the Government seeks to secure public benefits and avoid unearned windfalls to landowners on green belt land?
There are a variety of reasons why people want to live in densely populated residential areas. They should inform housing and planning decisions in the UK.
Past experience suggests that the new towns policy can accelerate development in certain areas. Government should combine it with wider national reform to make the planning system more efficient.
Peter Mandelson had a crack at one in 2009. Theresa May had another go in 2017. And there have been a raft of other economic strategies too. Yet despite this we’re going to go round the block again – the new Government is going to write another industrial strategy. If this one isn’t to join the others in the now-overflowing policy recycle bin, what needs to be different?