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UK housebuilding
Housing developments axed as Tory planning reforms take effect
...Matt Griffith, director of policy at Business West, the regional chamber of commerce, said councils were reacting to the political messaging of lower housebuilding ambitions, even though they privately recognised...
March 21, 2024
InterviewHS2
Sunak’s private funding plan for HS2 tunnel set to fail, warns adviser
...Last month Sunak cancelled the northern leg of the high-speed railway line, but confirmed that HS2 would run from Euston station in the centre of London to Birmingham in the Midlands....
November 26, 2023
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
FT SeriesBritain’s infrastructure impasse
Birmingham pays the price for UK’s infrastructure gap
...However, the transformation of Birmingham and similar regional hubs cannot be achieved only by building new railways and office blocks....
January 25, 2024
The FT ViewThe editorial board
England’s promising experiment with metro mayors
...England relies heavily on its capital for economic growth but, with greater powers, second cities can become significant propellers for regional growth....
April 8, 2024
High Speed Two Ltd
Planning applications jump fourfold along course of HS2
...The analysis of the impact in areas within a 1.5 mile radius of two new HS2 stations in central Birmingham and Solihull and a depot at Washwood Heath, found that planning applications were up by two-thirds...
February 17, 2024
Hydrogen power
Aviation industry calls for UK investment in hydrogen fuel
...Although the company has yet to finalise the size or range of the aircraft executives have previously suggested it will initially produce a regional or shorter-range aircraft that could seat about 100 passengers...
March 18, 2024
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
UK economy
London accounts for almost half of booming UK services exports
...Exports from other major UK cities, such as Greater Manchester and Birmingham, grew by just 11 per cent and 3 per cent between 2016-21, respectively....
January 23, 2024
The FT ViewThe editorial board
Britain’s levelling up agenda is failing to deliver
...Skills shortages and a complex planning system also hinder the implementation of projects. Britain remains one of the most centralised and geographically unequal economies in the OECD....
March 18, 2024
Nuclear energy
West is ‘too optimistic’ on nuclear projects, warns engineering chief
...It has 22 under construction and more than 70 in the planning phase, and is building up exports of nuclear technology....
March 20, 2024
Clearing & Settlement
UK to cut stock settlement times from 2027
...Adam Farkas, chief executive of bank industry body AFME, said the report “does not identify any material advantage for UK capital markets to move to T+1 out of step with regional partners” and urged EU officials...
March 28, 2024
Inside Politics
Pouring scorn on teachers is a press strategy, not a plan for reform
...Brighouse improved the lives of untold tens of thousands of people through his work lifting up schools in London and Birmingham, in particular....
December 18, 2023
HS2
Greater Manchester mayor proposes compromise on HS2 rail line
...Andy Burnham, Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, has said he is open to a discussion with ministers about delaying construction of the northern leg of the UK’s High Speed 2 rail line if the government commits...
September 26, 2023
UK infrastructure
HS2 route north of Birmingham in doubt as Sunak and Hunt explore more cost-cuts
...In recent years it has been held up as a symbol of the Conservative government’s flagship levelling-up policy, designed to address regional economic imbalances....
September 14, 2023
Global Economy
The Jamaican exception
...of a permanent, independent Fiscal Commission....
April 1, 2024
Data PointsAmy Borrett
Why do some UK cities punch below their weight?
...And as a share of total output, Manchester and Birmingham’s centres rank among the lowest of all large UK cities. This needs to change....
June 30, 2023
FT Live
Future of the Car
The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive
Tuesday, 7 MaySancroft, Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7DQ, UK
LexHigh Speed Two Ltd
UK HS2: northern exposure should not give Sunak cold feet Premium content
...Better regional transport links are likely to offer greater productivity benefits than long-distance links....
October 3, 2023
The FT ViewThe editorial board
High-speed trains and the crashing of Britain’s credibility
...The dizzyingly expensive carousel of design, planning and environmental signoffs would have to start up again....
September 26, 2023
EU energy
European gas price falls to pre-energy crisis level
...Piped Russian gas, which accounted for 40 per cent of the EU’s supplies before the Ukraine war, has fallen to 8 per cent, according to the European Commission....
February 23, 2024
UK infrastructure
UK infrastructure projects hit by homeworking, says government adviser
...Sir John Armitt, chair of the National Infrastructure Commission, a government advisory board, said there was “a recognition” that the planning system for nationally significant projects was not working...
November 14, 2023
Japanese politics & policy
Japan relaxes defence export rules to allow sales of new fighter jet
...defence contractors greater access to foreign markets....
March 26, 2024
Deforestation
EU delays stricter rules on imports from deforested areas
...The commission declined to comment....
March 8, 2024
Future of work
Commuting is back — but not as we knew it
...For women with greater caring responsibilities, who tend to take jobs closer to home, the increase of hybrid and remote work has boosted opportunities....
March 27, 2024
Tej Parikh
Is the rich world stuck in an ‘upper-income trap’?
...Gummed-up planning systems and anti-immigration groups are an example. Olson argues that influential coalitions increase “the complexity of regulation [and] the role of government”....
March 15, 2024
News in-depthUK regional policy
Local leaders seek to reverse 40 years of UK bus privatisation
...His research concluded that this could explain most of Birmingham’s productivity gap with its European comparators....
November 7, 2023
UK government spending
‘Network North’ HS2 savings spent on London pothole repair
...Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester....
December 21, 2023

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