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Dami Awobajo is director of the improvement and efficiency in the

Ealing Council

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development of a strong local economy is the top priority: What can be done in the councils of regions to attract small businesses run / way with some of the levers that are newly available. Boards must ensure that the skills and training in the areas of right and think about what infrastructure and how the region could be improved.

need a clear plan of Ministers:

would be helpful if the ministers of the department had a common understanding of their vision for the board. I do not think there is at any time. There is a tension, and often seems to be directed against the central government in the direction of travel.

Jonathan Carr-West is the director of policy in the

local unit of government information

deals in town are good, but we must go further: The key to the city offers is that it opens the Offer door to many more localized with Treasury guidance that helped innovate. The ability to reach agreements that work through government spending on the border side is larger and reducing costs and achieve better results. It is also the logical result of the public budgets of the community of the place.

localism is an opportunity not a threat:

There is a tension we all feel to want to locate and anxiety about the result this location . We must have a little faith in the process. Some will see [localism] as a deepening of regional disparities, but also an opportunity to develop local economic strategies that respond to local contexts. The variation in the result is acceptable, provided that people have a capacity of democratic influence how the change occurs.

Hector Gordon is the manager of public affairs at the

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

We must face the difficult problems as well:

Fiscal Council considered a failure, with a wider reform of property tax. We ended up with the changes in stamp duty, but there were many more fundamental change. In an ideal world, the reform of Council Tax would be the priority, but there is a very good reason successive governments have failed Reband. This ideal world is still a way off yet. In the meantime, however, we are left with a regressive tax that is based on some property valuations very old.

local government needs to improve pressure groups:

With the budget, in particular, is difficult for local government to influence real. Every man and his dog was trying to influence Osborne, in the weeks leading up to it. With a fiscally neutral, the space is not much more to meet the desires of lobbyists. The local government is one voice of thing really wanted by the central government, and is probably the strongest and most consistent.

adviser is an adviser Jason Green Kitcat

Brighton and Hove City Council

The council tax freeze was a dirty trick by the government: the end, Ministers agreed that their goal is to further reduce the basic financial advice. For many boards, including Buenos Aires, who had no financial sense to take the gel. How to intimidate rebel ministers, including advice from publicly attacking their finance officers, the behavior was extremely poor.

tax increment financing (TIF):

If boards could set rates for business when they could create packages to encourage certain types of sites use are being developed. When the government is the location of risks in the collection of business tax, but none of the powers and freedoms in relation to setting fees, assessments or rebates. Again, the council does not own their own destiny.

Zach Wilcox is an economics researcher at the

Centre for Cities

TIF announcement is a disappointment: Initially, we were optimistic, because it was TIF2 and the imprecision of the budget made it seem larger it is first. It will be a maximum of one or two pilots TIF.