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Innovations

5 December 2008

How Forest of Dean District Council is encouraging shoppers to keep it local.

Front-loading

By Richard Garlick

5 December 2008

Agencies differ over accelerated spending

Government grants are 'getting longer'

14 November 2008

Government grants are being offered over longer periods, according to research published by a charity that supports the third sector.

New criteria set to cost councils

14 November 2008

Two councils stand to lose out on £4.45 million from the Working Neighbourhoods Fund (WNF) after the Government published a consultation proposing changes to the fund's eligibility criteria.

Barack Obama

14 November 2008

Why president elect Obama will be regeneration's first White House resident.

Single additional city-region deal due in 2008

7 November 2008

Only one of the five city-regions developing cross-boundary funding deals will have its agreement finalised this month, Regeneration & Renewal understands.

Return of the prodigal son

31 October 2008

Interview with comeback cabinet member Lord Mandelson, business and enterprise secretary

Heseltine demands mayors in all cities

31 October 2008

The current system of local government is "ludicrous" and all English local authorities should be compelled to accept directly-elected mayors, Lord Heseltine told the Regeneration & Renewal Northern Summit last week.

Don't cherry-pick quick fixes, Northern Summit warned

31 October 2008

Regeneration practitioners must take care to ensure that the difficult funding decisions taken in the next few years do not end up ignoring the worst-off areas.

Adviser denounces short-term funding

31 October 2008

Short-term and fragmented regeneration funding is a barrier to the success of local authority projects, a government-commissioned task force has warned.