Who really pays for open space and affordable housing contributions?
In this briefing, Gerard Lind explores how open space and affordable housing contributions work and who really pays – spoiler alert, it’s not simply passed on to homebuyers as many in the housing and development industry would have you believe.
Ten-year vision to improve adult social care
This policy briefing summarises and comments on the key elements in the UK Government’s ten-year vision for adult social care, recently laid out in the adult social care reform white paper.
Rural creative industries
This briefing sets out how policymakers and local councils in countryside areas can better understand and support their rural creative economies.
The Observer: Councils have been short-changed. More government money is required
Environmental Land Management and the agricultural transition: select committee report
This briefing deals with a report published in October 2021 by the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (the Committee) on its inquiry into the agricultural transition in England and Environmental Land Management (ELM). The transition represents the most significant changes to English agriculture in decades.
Parliamentary update November 2021
The purpose of this briefing is to provide an update on the progress of each piece of legislation through the Houses of Parliament that is of relevance to local authorities in England and Wales.