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City Minutes: Reforming business ratesBusiness rates are one of the most important taxes for local government, yet our current system has come under huge scrutiny in recent years. The tax has been blamed for the struggles of...
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Reforming business rates: Fixing a broken system
A 10-point plan for ensuring that a reformed business rates system puts local economic growth at its heart.
Reforming business rates
Join us to hear about our proposals in our latest report
How has Covid-19 impacted our high streets?
Lahari Ramuni's round up of what's happened to footfall and spending on high streets and city centres this year.
City Talks
City Talks: Sir John Armitt on the future of UK infrastructureChair of the National Infrastructure Commission Sir John Armitt on the future of UK infrastructure.
High street tracker update: less than a fifth of workers are back
What impact did the Prime Minister's calls for people to work from home again, after attempts to get people back into the office over the summer, have on worker footfall in city and town centres?
Winter is coming: Expect tough months ahead for high streets as recovery slows in September
September's update to the High Streets Recovery Tracker shows that the recovery of high streets has come to a stall in September.
City Talks
City Talks: Politicians on levelling up during the Covid-19 pandemicFour senior politicians on how the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting the levelling up agenda - and why it's more important than ever.
Three reflections on comment concerns about ‘levelling up local government’
Our recent paper 'Levelling up Local Government in England' sparked much debate. Here’s a round-up and response to the main themes.
Did eating out really help out?
Looking across data on footfall and sales suggests that while eating out did help out, the impact varied significantly across cities.