Councils click into the future of planning
In town halls across the country, planning officers are racing to update their Local Plans — but this time, the process looks very different.
Cities ‘must get EU aid’
Newcastle, Glasgow, Leeds, Birmingham and Manchester should be in line for a share of £3.5bn in EU funding, according to an influential think-tank.
A report from the Institute for Public Policy Research claims just over half the £6.5bn of EU European Structural Funding, due to come to the UK over the next seven years, should be focused on city regions in the North and the Midlands.
The rest is already earmarked for South Yorkshire, Merseyside, Cornwall, West Wales and the Scottish Highlands and Islands.
