‘Show us your money’ if you want to take over M6 Toll, Grayling tells councils
The Government has told West Midlands’ council leaders ‘you can buy the M6 Toll, if you can find the money’. But at an estimated cost of £1.5 billion it seems
Council leaders reject their own plan for limited West Mids mayor powers….allegedly
Siôn Simon is dead right to conclude that the West Midlands’ metro mayor will be a toothless animal under current plans, even if he is a bit late to the
Council leaders reject their own plan for limited West Mids mayor powers….allegedly
Siôn Simon is dead right to conclude that the West Midlands’ metro mayor will be a toothless animal under current plans, even if he is a bit late to the
Land supply shortage ‘puts at risk’ West Midlands homes and jobs plan
A chronic land shortage for new housing and industrial development in the West Midlands will put at risk plans to create 500,000 jobs unless new sites can be identified, council
Clancy gets key economic brief as WMCA hands out cabinet portfolios
Birmingham city council leader John Clancy has been handed an important economic development role by the new West Midlands Combined Authority. Cllr Clancy will hold the economic growth portfolio in
All systems go for West Midlands Combined Authority as MPs say ‘Yes’
MPs have finally approved the setting up of the West Midlands Combined Authority. Members voted in favour of establishing the new body today and formal approval is expected to be
‘Boxed in’ West Midlands metro mayor will be far from all-powerful autocrat
The elected metro mayor of the West Midlands may have almost no executive powers to spend money or push through policies without gaining the overwhelming backing of council leaders. Under
So near yet so far for WMCA as MPs fail to give statutory approval
Council leaders across the West Midlands face an anxious wait to discover whether MPs will finally approve plans to set up a combined authority after the House of Commons failed
West Midlands Combined Authority – the mayor and the issues facing the region
History will be made tomorrow (Friday, 10th June) when leaders of seven metropolitan councils sit down with the leaders of eight shire districts and chairs of three Local Enterprise Partnerships
Dale’s Diary: West Midlands metro mayor no one wants (except Sion Simon)
The general reaction when it emerged that West Midlands council leaders wanted to pay the region’s elected metro mayor as little as £30,000 a year was ‘who on earth will