If levelling up is to be a success in the most ‘left behind’ neighbourhoods it needs to bolster their social infrastructure, alongside interventions targeted at improving specific metrics such as employment, training or education.
Councils can help steer their high streets and town centres towards more mixed-use futures.
The LGA has commissioned a report into shifts in public attitudes and behaviour caused by COVID-19 and the implications for local government.
The theory behind local government is a good one: local people, representative of the local population, represent the area.