Judy Terry: Let’s boost Local Enterprise Partnerships

LEPs should be allowed to help improve the housing supply.

Cllr Joe Cooney: Building homes on brownfield sites needs a boost

Our Brownfield Regeneration Fund will clean up contaminated eyesores to make them attractive to developers.

Gareth Bacon: Privatise London’s street markets and they will thrive

For markets to flourish the traders must take over from maladroit councils.

Blackpool Council to spend £14 million for a new hotel

Lower Business Rates would be a more effective way to revive the town.

Greg Clark MP: Tory heroes in our towns and cities. Let’s start with Paul Maynard in Blackpool.

The Minister for Cities’ column returns. He will be looking at how local Conservatives are helping to transform the communities they live in for the better.

The Government must go much further on public service reform

Cllr Philippa Roe, the Leader of Westminster City Council, says more local incentives and innovation is needed The government has… Read more »

Lewes is the Council of the Week

Local Government Minister Brandon Lewis with his series celebrating excellence in out Town Halls This week's Champion Council is Lewes… Read more »

Conservatives are building a bright future for Croydon

Cllr Clare George-Hilley of Croydon Council on how her borough has moved on from rioting The summer riots of 2011… Read more »

The Government should cherry pick from the Heseltine Review

Winston Churchill said that: For a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket… Read more »

Getting local growth moving

The All Party Parliamentary Group on Local Growth this week launched its first inquiry into the effectiveness of Local Enterprise… Read more »

Planning rules eased on new homes above shops

"Rent a flat above a shop," sang Jarvis Cocker (whose mother Christine Connolly lost by one vote as a Conservative… Read more »

City Deals reward enterprise not dependency

By Greg Clark MP, the Minister for Cities, and Cllr Matthew Colledge the Leader of Trafford Borough Council Today sees… Read more »

Norfolk County Council plans to buy RAF Coltishall

In 2006 RAF Coltishall closed. The Ministry of Justice took it over and now use part of the site for… Read more »

Bring in Local Investment Zones to boost growth

Cllr Philippa Roe, the leader of Westminster City Council, argues that the introduction of Local Investment Zones would allow all… Read more »

Portas Pilots named

  The DCLG have announced the following 12 "Portas Pilots." Each will get a £100,000 towards their schemes to revive… Read more »