| Comment | > it seems a popular thing today to waffle a lot about 'visions'
This is because councils have no money.
Gone are the days when we had powerful regional councils with strong tax bases and secure, reliable funding from national level year-on-year, allowing them to implement plans within a few years of them being hatched.
Councils up and down the UK are utterly dependent on applying for handouts from national budgets to get anything done that isn't a base service. Even then, they are obviously struggling to fund many base services as it is.
Councils need to bid for funding for every single stage of a project, from conception through to design and construction. It has to be layed out in multi-stage plans and 'visions', in order to secure this funding, as and when it becomes available through different pots (the highest profile ones being the City Deal and Levelling Up Fund but there are many others). |
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