Martin George
Deputy Editor at Local Government Chronicle
Deputy editor, Local Government Chronicle @lgcplus. Previously @tes and @EDP24. Now at @martinrgeorge.bsky.social. Views mine. He/him. [email protected]
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5 days ago |
lgcplus.com | Martin George
Despite proving surprisingly sensitive to backbench pressure, the government should be able to implement its fair funding proposals, writes deputy editor Martin George. "Local government finance is, famously, the most boring and complicated subject in all of public life,” wrote William Waldegrave of his time as a junior minister overseeing local government in the 1980s.
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1 week ago |
lgcplus.com | Martin George
If the abstract phrase 'net zero' is costing support for climate action it is time to concentrate on selling the practical, local benefits, writes deputy editor Martin George. Do you remember the summer of 2019? It seems like a very long time ago: before the pandemic, before Ukraine, before the horrors of Hamas and Gaza. It was an era when, amid the bitter divides of Brexit, there was at least widespread agreement that we could and should tackle our biggest existential threat, climate change.
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1 week ago |
lgcplus.com | Martin George
The government will stop funding a multi-billion pound scheme to help decarbonise public sector buildings following the Spending Review. Salix, a non-departmental public body wholly owned by the UK government, said the government “has taken the difficult decision to commit no further investment for the public sector decarbonisation scheme [PSDS] beyond currently awarded projects”.
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2 weeks ago |
lgcplus.com | Martin George
Telford & Wrekin Council has been named LGC Council of the Year at a ceremony that celebrated the very best of local government. The council beat competition from Burnley BC, Stockport MBC, Stockton-on-Tees BC and City & County of Swansea. Judges made in-person visits to all five councils in the weeks leading up to the ceremony, before they underwent rigorous live judging for the headline award category, sponsored by Zurich Municipal.
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2 weeks ago |
lgcplus.com | Martin George
The government has named 25 “trailblazer neighbourhoods” that will receive funding up to £20m for “community-led regeneration and renewal” as part of today's Spending Review. The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government said the areas would receive “long-term investment for communities and early support to prepare for investment from a dedicated team”.
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