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Tag Archives: Grant Shapps
Rough sleeping? It’s all the Councils’ faults.
Today (25 January 2011) sees a Response column in The Guardian by Grant Shapps, Minister for Housing, in which he dismisses Patrick Butler’s prediction that ‘savage cuts will leave people sleeping rough on the streets‘. Shapps proclaims that the Tory-led … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservative, councils, economy, George Osborne, Grant Shapps, housing, silo-thinking
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Localism? Only when the Minister says so
The Minister for Housing and Local Government, Grant Shapps, has it seems stepped into the debate up in Liverpool about whether to demolish the early home of ex-Beatle Ringo Starr, where Starr lived for three months (the home he mostly grew up … Continue reading
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Tagged communities, culture, Grant Shapps, heritage, housing, Liverpool, localism, regeneration, remediation
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Local government in all its ‘former glory’…?
Local Government Minister Grant Shapps‘ letter in The Guardian today (17 December 2010) refers to the Government’s Localism Bill as a vehicle which ‘will restore local government to its former glory’, and thereby deliver the Big Society. But what sort … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Society, feminist, Grant Shapps, hegemony, localism, resourcing
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