10 Ways Councils Are Using AI to Transform Public Services
Councils are increasingly adopting AI-based solutions to improve services. LocalGov Assistant editor Izzy Lepone has collected 10 innovative case studies.
Leicester to build 53 council homes on derelict school site
24/02/2025 Work is set to begin on the construction of 53 council homes at a derelict school site in Leicester. |
Liverpool City Council sets out plan to deliver 10,000 houses
23/12/2024 Liverpool City Council has set out plans to deliver more than 10,000 new homes in one of Britain’s most deprived areas. |
PM announces £68m to unlock brownfield sites
15/10/2024 Local authorities are set to get a multi-million-pound funding boost to unlock disused brownfield sites and build thousands of new homes, PM announces. |
Liverpool seeks Festival Gardens developer after £60m clean-up
04/09/2024 Liverpool City Council is set to start searching for a housing developer for a 28-acre site it spent £60m cleaning up. |
Plans for £2.3bn ‘Venice of Britain’ scrapped
15/07/2024 Planning applications for a £2.3bn town on the site of a former power station on the Hampshire coast have been withdrawn. |
NextGov: Resolving the housing crisis
28/06/2024 The Home Builders Federation’s (HBF) policy and external affairs manager, Laura Markus, discusses what the next government should do to tackle the housing crisis. |
Agreement for major York regeneration scheme signed
09/04/2024 An agreement to undertake one of the UK's largest city centre regeneration schemes in York has been signed. |
Hull and East Riding finalise devolution proposal
28/03/2024 A devolution proposal for a Hull and East Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority is set to be submitted to the levelling up department. |
‘Brownfield first’ reforms unveiled
14/02/2024 Councils in England will be told to prioritise brownfield development and be ‘less bureaucratic’ in their approach to building on previously developed land. |
Call for ‘different approach’ to brownfield
24/01/2024 A more ‘systematic, interventionist and collaborative’ method could ‘significantly’ increase the regeneration of brownfield sites in Wales, according to a new report. |
