Archive

Liverpool sheds people to buck city trend

31 August 2007

Liverpool's population fell over the year to mid-2006 - unlike most other major English cities.

RDAs boss: let us keep our powers

31 August 2007

Regional development agencies (RDAs) should retain the power to manage regeneration spending despite government devolution proposals, the head of all RDAs has said.

Relocate 2 Sheffield

31 August 2007

"Life transplanting" company helps people move to the city.

Enterprise centres 'to aid small firms'

31 August 2007

Plans for a network of small business centres for firms in the West Midlands have been unveiled by the region's development agency.

Outside influence

31 August 2007

The head of One North-East says his Scouse heritage is surprisingly helpful.

Northern Way 'was failing to deliver'

31 August 2007

The Government's flagship strategy for improving the economic performance of northern England has not been "punching its weight", according to One North-East chief executive Alan Clarke.

Digital divide

By Sir Peter Hall

31 August 2007

The tech revolution hasn't reached everyone.

Plans to reopen Birmingham railway line

31 August 2007

Birmingham City Council plans to reopen the suburban railway line from Camp Hill to the city centre to passenger trains for the first time since 1941.

Rotten to the core

31 August 2007

Latest proposals to transfer plan-making powers to regional development agencies ignore recent fundamental changes in planning thought and practice, maintains Tim Marshall.

Bank closures 'are harming renewal'

31 August 2007

The rapid increase in local bank branch closures is hampering social and physical regeneration in hundreds of deprived communities, it was claimed last week.