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👻 Some residents never leave the city centre. Burial grounds cover 3 per cent of Peterborough’s city centre, more than any other city. Exeter is hot on its (cold) heels at 2.98 per cent 🪦
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Agreed! This, alongside Scotland's continuous pipeline of projects, can help explain why its electrification costs have fallen below England's, even on complex schemes:
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the Armenia-Turkey border near Akhurik (Gyumri–Kars), frozen in time with Soviet-era signage
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On our latest podcast @AntBreach joins us to help break down the Budget 👇🎧
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it's always fun talking to people actually involved in municipal fiscal policy about the much derided childless 20something professionals...they pay taxes, they spend their money, they do not consume expensive, in-person services, they are the atlas holding us all up
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London's Turkish community helps power our economy, enrich our culture and strengthen neighbourhoods across the capital.
Ahead of my visit to Türkiye next month, it was great to celebrate those contributions with Turkish Londoners at Antepliler.
ALT Mayor Sadiq Khan stands behind a kitchen counter with four women and two men, three of whom are wearing Antepliler-branded polo shirts.
ALT Mayor Sadiq Khan and another man cook food in a kitchen. They are both wearing gloves. A pile of grated cheese sits on the kitchen counter.
ALT Kunefe (knafeh) sits finished on a dish, covered in pistachio.
ALT Mayor Sadiq Khan, Deputy Mayor Mete Coban and two men stand in a shop. Behind them is a cash desk and bottles lining the walls.
Quick thoughts on today's fiscal devolution roadmap, building off our four tests:
1. This is the end of the beginning for fiscal devolution. Government now accepts fiscal centralisation is a national economic problem - and over the longer term there is more fiscal devo to come
Centre for Cities set out four tests for the fiscal devolution roadmap earlier this week.
We’re interested in fiscal devolution first and foremost as a means by which to unlock economic growth. So how does the roadmap look through that lens?
@AntBreach with a quick take on "the end of the beginning" for fiscal devolution.
4. An upshot here is that the visitor levy has now taken on even greater importance.
It's the most fiscally devolved of any tax in England, and mayors who choose to use it will need to demonstrate how they will help grow the visitor economy to keep fiscal devo rolling
The Budget tomorrow will also see the publication of the fiscal devolution roadmap - the most important reforms to local finance in decades.
Here are the top four things we're looking out for - first, is Business Rates Retention for mayors going to be growthy?
Four tests for the fiscal devolution roadmap: centreforcities.org/blog/fou…
Third, will corporation tax sharing be on the menu? This might take longer than a single Parliament, but it would be a powerful complement to income tax sharing that would connect mayors to the success of their local businesses:
Four tests for the fiscal devolution roadmap: centreforcities.org/blog/fou…