Place Management Conference 2025: A Crisis in Local Government Finance

Have we reached a crisis point in how we invest in public services?

Multiple economic shocks since the turn of the Century, an industrial revolution pressures borne of demographic change and a recent sharp rise in interest rates have created a toxic fiscal environment. The end result is the suffocation of funding on high streets.

The impacts are multiple. Reduced allocation of resource for town centre management, cuts to arts, culture and events, gaps in service for maintenance and street cleaning, fewer police, blockages in the planning pipeline, a reliance on ad hoc government grants for regeneration -  the challenges are endless. 

And these challenges spread beyond our local government members, impacting BIDs who have to wrestle with the existential threat to ‘additionality’. It's time to take stock. 

The next ATCM Place Management Conference will focus on the challenges we face in funding the day-to-day. We will ask how things have changed and how we need to adapt accordingly.

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