Thursday 17 May 2012

Save us from a re-run of Blair-style 'growth'

There is speculation in the newspapers that the Blair and Mandelson Show is poised to make a re-entry into mainstream UK politics, to make the case for that phenomenon they call 'growth':

http://www.neweconomics.org/blog/2012/05/16/back-to-the-90s

Tuesday 1 May 2012

The shape of community plans to come

The new planning framework promises that communities with their own local plans, setting out local pirorities, will inherit the eart.  We'' see how that happsn in practice, but the good news is that reallygood local plans are beginning to emerge:

http://www.neweconomics.org/blog/2012/04/30/making-localism-work-for-the-new-economics