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Best practice and and better understanding roles in championing, and delivering the placemaking agenda.

This guide contains ideas, tools and approaches to help councillors manage performance effectively, in collaboration with local authority officers.

This guide contains ideas, tools and approaches to help local authority officers to manage performance effectively, in collaboration with councillors.

Promoting and modelling positive culture

This resource pack is designed to help councillors understand what permanency is, the factors that can have an impact and the questions that will help to understand what’s working well and what could be improved.

The survey was conducted in June-July 2018 in order to develop an accurate evidence base on the impact of new permitted development rights. The results will inform the LGA’s lobbying and advocacy work, and be used in discussions with Ministers about the changes, and the possibility of further widening permitted development rights.

Improving adult skills is vital to individual progression in work and to the productive growth of the economy. The LGA commissioned this study, by the Heseltine Institute at the University of Liverpool, to evidence the continuing need for improved adult skills and the contribution of local government to delivering inclusive, economically relevant and place-based training.

The planning system has been reformed five times since the Second World War but this has had little effect on house building.

The planning system is vital for shaping the future growth of our society. Where it works well, it is one of the best tools that we have to unlock economic growth and to deliver the homes and jobs that are needed in our towns and cities.

We hope the case studies included in this publication provide inspiration to all those with a shared interest in ensuring that the aspirations and needs of people and communities are at the centre of our collective efforts to deliver new, high quality development.