Ian Lewis: Housing associations lack transparency. They should face more competition.
Why shouldn’t councils build the homes needed? We can re-enter the market, using low costs of capital to borrow, and cut out the middleman.
Greig Baker: Council borrowing was meant to fund public works improvements – not speculative investments
As things go belly up, profligate local authorities will look to taxpayers across the country to bail them out. More accountability is needed.
Judy Terry: Councillors should do more to recruit school governors
Finance, legal, and property expertise are often in short supply on governance boards, yet that knowledge is key to professional school management.
James Palmer: Why I’m backing electric bikes as a safe and healthy way to travel in my region
Emissions from cars are 50 per cent above the national average in Cambridgeshire. We need to boost alternatives to ease congestion.
Meghan Gallacher: The Scottish Government must deliver a recovery plan for councils
The SNP has been flippant and left local authorities in a precarious position. We need proper funding to make localised decisions.
Adrian Mason: Welsh disillusionment with devolution gives the Conservatives an opportunity
We need to offer an optimistic free enterprise alternative to Labour’s profligate spending and inferior public services.
Meirion Jenkins: The lack of democratic accountability in Birmingham is worse than ever
Labour wants a new tax that would add extra cars and pollution to some of the areas where air quality is already the worst in the City.
Shona Haslam: Advice from Scotland on getting schools reopened
Children are resilient. Often it is the parents who are more anxious. So get information out to them as quickly and simply as possible.
John Bald: The lack of merit in A-level grading shows a misplaced belief in the power of statistical modelling
We can expect hard cases to make headlines, and universities to do what they can, to mitigate the most obvious injustices.
Hugo Owen: Create beautiful hospitals
New NHS hospitals do not need to be ugly. It is for the good of patients, hospital staff, and civil society, that they should be attractive buildings.
Felicity Buchan: We need new homes that are safe
If there is to be any positive legacy from the Grenfell fire, it must be that our building and fire safety regime is state of the art.
Chris McGovern: The teaching unions must stop playing truant with the truth
There has even been opposition to providing on-line lessons. The closure of schools is further fracturing our already divided society.
John Moss: Khan has failed to deliver on housing. The Government should switch to funding the London boroughs instead.
Cut out the middleman. Go straight to the people who want to build – and help people who want to buy their home.
Nicholas Boys Smith: Quantity and quality – why the Planning White Paper is getting the big questions right
It accepts that the beauty and liveability of the new settlements we create matters. Far too few new places achieve this.
Archie Hill: Strong devolution must mean giving more counties unitary status
Instead of the current patchwork system, a new more effective form of local governance is necessary to unlock regional growth.