Lifting the Burdens Task Force

Lifting the Burdens from Local Economic Development and Regeneration - Call for evidence

This review aims to identify how locally led economic development and regeneration can be implemented efficiently and effectively.

The timing of this call for evidence alongside the Sub National Review (SNR) consultation will allow this review to highlight the practical barriers which are in the way of delivering the Government's vision, as well as to ensure that national policy developments do not add to the bureaucratic burden on local authorities. The focus of this review is on the streamlining implementation and not on issues of policy.

The Task Force is calling on councils and partnerships to send in evidence of any central government activity which is holding back local economic development and regeneration in the areas of:

  • Effective place shaping - through strategic decision making and delivery, integrated regional strategy and local economic assessment
  • Funding mechanisms - to allow long term planning, local flexibility and alignment
  • Strategic infrastructure - through planning, funding and reporting requirements
  • Skills and worklessness - through flexibility in working with partners and fulfilling the new local authority role

This review is being led by Eamonn Boylan, Deputy Chief Executive of Manchester City Council, with Andrew Lightfoot, Deputy Chief Executive of Blackburn with Darwen and Janet Russell, Director of Environment, Transportation and Property, Kirklees Council. 

The deadline for submissions is Friday 23 May.

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The recommendations of the Lifting Burdens Task Force are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views or proposed policies of Communities and Local Government.

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