Events

Northern Regeneration Summit & Exhibition 2007

This autumn, Regeneration & Renewal will host the first ever Northern Regeneration Summit & Exhibition at the prestigious Manchester Central.

This event will bring together the public sector bodies offering development opportunities and the private sector investors which have the resources to bring them to fruition.

It will also attract the professional advisers who can help turn investment opportunities into completed schemes that benefit both investors and local communities.

Dermot Finch, the Director of Centre for Cities will chair the second day of the event.

For more information also see: http://www.northernregeneration.com/

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LGA Finance Directors' Conference

This Local Government Association conference will look at the emerging framework for sub-regional collaboration, with a specific focus on Multi-Area Agreements -- which will allow councils to pool resources to achieve key cross-boundary goals such as better transport and regeneration.
 
Adam Marshall, Senior Researcher at the Centre, will speak on a panel on financial devolution at the conference, together with LGA Deputy Chair Richard Kemp, Peter Hetherington of the Guardian, and others

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Core Cities Summit Event

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Economic Prosperity: the sub-national contribution

The sub-national review of economic development reported in July this year.

The purpose of this review is to strengthen economic performance in regions,

cities and localities across England. The review proposed reforms in four key areas:

Empowering local authorities to promote economic development; Support for local

authorities to work together at the sub-regional level; Strengthening the regional level

and central government’s relations with regions and localities.

Following on from the Lyons Inquiry review which called for improved incentives

for local authorities to promote economic prosperity and growth, this event will

explore the implications of the sub-national review on local economic development

and understand how new local authority powers can be used at a regional and

sub-regional level.

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