Tag Archives: Eric Pickles

Birmingham’s widening “jaws of doom”

By Joseph D'Urso | Published: February 1, 2013

Birmingham’s Labour-run council is facing a £625 million deficit by 2016/2017. Budget cuts of up to 50% are planned. What public services will survive?

Posted in Public Services for All | Also tagged Birmingham, budget, communities, councils, cuts, deficit, local authorities, local government, public spending, Sir Albert Bore | 4 Responses

The Pickles Integration Speech – big on rhetoric, small on ideas

By Jill Rutter | Published: January 16, 2013

Jill Rutter writes on migration issues and through IPPR will be publishing a paper on integration in February 2013. A month after Ed Miliband’s speech on migrant integration and nearly 12 months after his Department published its integration strategy, Eric Pickles made his first speech on this issue in a speech hosted by Policy Exchange [...]

Posted in A Britain We All Call Home | Also tagged integration, localism, migrant integration | 22 Responses

Reshuffle: Transport and communities: Where next for the ‘greenest government ever’?

By Guest | Published: September 5, 2012

Richard Hebditch of the Campaign for Better Transport reflects on the reshuffle changes at the departments for communities and transport.

Posted in Good Society | Also tagged communities, greenest government ever, Patrick McLoughlin, planning, Reshuffle, roads, transport | 40 Responses

Pickles needs a friend

By Alex Hern | Published: October 3, 2011

Today hasn’t been a good day for Eric Pickles – even Gideon was mocking him: ““Economic advisor to Gordon Brown”. I’m not sure I’d put that on my CV if I were Ed Balls. It’s like “personal trainer to Eric Pickles”. Although I have to say, when it comes to chasing down council waste, no-one runs faster [...]

Posted in Left Foot Forward | Also tagged Mark Wallace, Taxpayers Alliance | 5 Responses

Council tax freeze is a tax cut for the rich

By Guest | Published: October 3, 2011

Pete Challis explains how much more the rich benefit from a council tax freeze than the poor do.

Posted in Sustainable Economy | Also tagged council tax, Council Tax Freeze, George Osborne, Tory Conference | 17 Responses

Pickles’s bribe to councils is a white elephant

By Rupert Read | Published: September 30, 2011

Rupert Read discusses the flaws, in both aim and execution, of Eric Pickles’s plan to return to weekly bin collections.

Posted in Public Services for All | Also tagged Green party, greenest government ever, rubbish collection, Tory Conference | 16 Responses

Pickles’s failed attempt to reduce complexity risks a planning free-for-all

By Alex Hern | Published: September 22, 2011

Under the guise of reducing complexity in the planning system, the government devolves crucial decisions to under-funded councils in a failed attempt at growth.

Posted in Sustainable Economy | Also tagged development, housing, local government, localism, NPPF, planning | 11 Responses

Pickles’s new national planning policy threatens motorway chaos

By Guest | Published: August 30, 2011

Analysis of the government’s National Planning Policy Framework shows journey times will rise from 3.6 minutes to 6.4 per 10 miles on a 175-mile stretch of the M1.

Posted in Sustainable Economy | Also tagged motorways, Traffic | 30 Responses

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