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What will drive Recovery? February 2010 What are the prospects for the economic sectors earmarked to spearhead future growth?
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There's no money left - Good Luck! May 2010 What will be the spatial economic implications of export-driven recovery and public spending cuts?
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The Challenges of a Long Road to Recovery, August 2009 What are the implications for policy makers of the impacts of recession?
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Securing a Base for Future Prosperity? September 2011 This edition of Economic Outlook focuses on how sectors have performed since the end of recession, and analyses future labour supply and job growth across the UK.
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Rebalancing the Economy? October 2010 The Spending Review 2010 heralds major changes to planning and development, but is it about more than the money?
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NLP Economic Outlook: Stuck in the Slow Lane? May 2011 Although the national economic picture has been one of overall stagnation during the past six months, there has been significant variation apparent across individual markets, locations and sectors. This edition focuses on some of those divergences, particularly in a variety of commercial and residential property markets, whilst also examining the prospects for tourism, a sector which is seen as having significant growth potential and for which the Government recently published a new national tourism strategy.
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How will Britain earn its way? George Osborne used the recent 2012 Budget to move from austerity to the question of how Britain will earn its way in the world. Against the back-drop of a possible 'zig-zag' recovery in 2012, building a platform for growth and unlocking business investment is now essential. In this context, the new National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) takes centre stage.
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Geography of Recovery, November 2009 Which locations have the best and worst prospects for economic recovery according to NLP's Recovery Index?
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Fire Up the Quattro: A Return to the 1980s? March 2011 The planning implications of the 2011 Budget and Plan for Growth
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Economic Development Planning News Update, May 2013 A flurry of new planning laws has marked the end of the 2012/ 13 Parliamentary session and reams of secondary legislation can be expected in the coming months. The new community infrastructure levy rules, the planning application process changes in the Growth and Infrastructure Act and the new heritage regime in the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act will all impact on the day to day workings of the development sector significantly. Read more on this, as well as other new law and policy initiatives in England in the latest Planning News Update covering economic development.
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Economic Development Planning News Update, March 2013 Having focused on implementing new national planning policy and primary legislation, the Government is looking more now at changing technical details of development management procedures – all with the same aim though, of boosting the economy by kick starting development (whether in the shape of stalled permissions or new schemes).
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Delivering in a Time of Austerity, February 2011 A double dip recession? Will development incentives and LEPs help support growth?
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Building on Firm Foundations? August 2010 As signs of growth return and changes in government policy emerge, what will the future hold for housing delivery and the property market?
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Building an aspiring nation? March 2013
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Autumn Statement 2012: A Winter's Tale?

