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Ricardo Gomez, director in Hatch’s Urban Solutions team explores the expanding landscape of English devolution, identifying key challenges that new strategic authorities will face as devolution goes deeper and wider...
The prospect of deeper and wider devolution across England is exciting indeed and there is largely cross-party and cross-sector consensus that it has the potential to bring huge also nationally. But implementation English Devolution is going deeper.
Existing Mayoral Combined Authorities central pot and increased freedom on how it’s spent. progressing ten further strategic
authorities committed by the previous accepted six more onto the Devolution Priority Programme.
challenges ahead. How should strategic authorities make decisions to achieve overarching goals? And how should they set those goals in Getting the geography right Where boundary lines are ‘new’ or feel have an uphill battle. Those that have an established and labour market – such as Greater
of ‘strength in numbers’. Some strategic authorities will have
though. Take soon-to-be-combined with Greater Manchester rather than Warrington or Chester. Bringing together and challenges will make it harder to shape a cohesive vision. A line on a plan and a consolidated funding pot won’t change that. So how do you knit such places
together? There is no simple formula to guarantee success. Identifying
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