Many redevelopment schemes in the UK put the onus on corporate profit at the cost of local communities but other countries show there is another way, argues Genevieve Maitland Hudson of Social...
A major boost to capital spending and legislation to establish a publicly owned investment bank will be at the core of the Scottish Government’s plans for the coming year.
Councils and motoring organisations have called for long-term and consistent funding for local road maintenance after a survey highlighted an increasing number of pothole-related incidents.
Local authorities need to put in place 25-year infrastructure plans to deliver economic and social benefits, Lord Andrew Adonis told the CIPFA conference yesterday.
Local authorities are demanding that the government clarifies how it will fund infrastructure after the UK loses billions of pounds from the European Investment Bank following Brexit.
The Committee of Standards in Public Life has made a timely intervention in the outsourcing debate. Its recommendations should be implemented without delay, says John Tizard.
Three councils face central government intervention after failures to produce a local plan, the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government has said.
Scotland faces long-term reductions in regeneration funding after Brexit and could be asked to pay its share of the UK’s divorce bill, delegates at the CIPFA Scotland conference have heard.
Two senior Labour MPs have poured scorn on Carillion’s senior management team, accusing them of delusional behaviour and blaming everyone but themselves for the company’s failure.
Ministers have pledged that all public services will be protected following the demise of Carillion, a major contractor responsible for a host of buildings and services across the public sector.
High Speed Rail 2’s £1.76m of unauthorised redundancy payments could have been avoided with tighter financial control, the Public Accounts Committee has said.
Councils spent £104m repairing potholes last year and a further £3.1m in payouts for damages caused to vehicles by potholes, according to industry research.
The private finance initiative is deeply unpopular, blamed for delays and exorbitant costs. However, as Anthony Barej finds out, it could still have a future.
Whitehall needs to improve its cost benefit analysis or risk losing value from its £250bn infrastructure project pipeline, the Institute for Government has warned.
