Archive

Healey appoints neighbourhood fund advisers

23 May 2008

A trio of special advisers has been hired by the Government to advise on how the new Working Neighbourhoods Fund can be used to help tackle worklessness and low levels of enterprise.

Kerslake: delivery bodies must prove their worth

23 May 2008

No form of local delivery body has the "God-given right to exist", the chief executive of the nascent regeneration super-agency said today.

Council assessment to cover city regions

23 May 2008

City regions that resist the creation of formal cross-boundary funding deals where such arrangements would be beneficial are to be singled out by official auditors.

Parker named new deputy mayor

23 May 2008

London mayor Boris Johnson has lined up Tim Parker for three of the most strategic policy and transport roles in the capital.

Barnsley to get flood relief cash

23 May 2008

Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council is to receive £400,000 government funding to help reimburse costs incurred after last summer's floods.

'Town halls ill equipped for economic development'

23 May 2008

Controls over economic development must be devolved to city regional bodies, not town halls, the leader of Sheffield's regeneration company said this week.

A clear message on big project approval

By Tim Williams, director of Navigant Consulting and a formergovernment adviser, tim.williams@haymarket.com

23 May 2008

I've been reading again. It's a habit acquired from too many years not taking drugs.

Diary

23 May 2008

First this week, a gleeful Diary is able to report on an amazing week of howlers.

What's on - Regeneration-related TV and radio

23 May 2008

Sunday 25 May

Work Experience with Neil Crawford, development manager, Wilson Bowden

23 May 2008

Neil Crawford, 36, manages development projects around the country for Wilson Bowden Developments.