Jon Rouse

Dec 5, 2024 | themj.co.uk | Michael Burton |Jon Rouse |Martin Ford |Greg Clark

Breckland Council chief executive Maxine O'Mahony says she is a good example of why diffidence should not stand in the way of ambition. The road to the Park Plaza Hotel, Westminster where last June she received her award as The MJ's Chief Executive of the Year in front of 1,000 guests began just before the pandemic. She was then a director on the council and recalls: ‘I was happy being a director. I was reluctant to be a chief executive.

Dec 5, 2024 | themj.co.uk | Matt Crossley |Pam Parkes |Jon Rouse |Heather Jameson

In today's landscape, delivering city-wide decarbonisation isn't just about investing in new technologies and implementing isolated retrofit measures across the built environment. It requires a deep, cohesive partnership between service providers, local authorities, and the communities at the heart of the city in question, to ensure there is buy-in from all parties. The path to net zero isn't simply about reducing carbon emissions.

Dec 4, 2024 | themj.co.uk | Jon Rouse

REGENERATION Regeneration: Reflecting on the future Jon Rouse outlines an ambitious range of projects across Stoke-on-Trent that are reshaping the city while paying tribute to the past By Jon Rouse | 04 December 2024 SHARE The landscape of Stoke-on-Trent is changing for the better thanks to a series of multi-million-pound developments, which are successfully combining the old with the new.

Sep 11, 2024 | themj.co.uk | Jon Rouse

FINANCE Playing an unwinnable hand Jon Rouse looks at how to navigate the perfect storm of managing a unitary authority when the numbers won’t add up By Jon Rouse | 11 September 2024 SHARE I arrived as city director in Stoke-on-Trent in February 2020, just six weeks before the first pandemic lockdown. When I arrived, the council was already financially broke.