Read Mark Luntley’s article (link) on the blog Local Welfare (link) about the need for infrastructure investments and the situation for British local authorities.
Mark Luntley has a long experience of UK local authorities. He has been Finance Director of Oxford City and, before that, in the Western Isles in Scotland. After Oxford Mark joined the Local Government association and now he is working with a project that evaluates the possibilities of introducing a local government collective agency with the aim to finance UK local authorities.