Councils across Northern Ireland held their AGMs on Monday and elected new Mayors and Chairs, as well as Deputy roles and Committee positions for 2024/25. While the majority of councils have announced their appointments, Ards and North Down Council and Lisburn and Castlereagh City will announce their new mayors later this week.
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Anyone involved in planning in Northern Ireland will be painfully aware that our defunct planning system is the biggest barrier to investment here. Reform of planning is one of the areas where political parties, the business community and those who have been through the process will agree upon.
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Only a few weeks after the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, which celebrated the role of the middle ground parties, the electorate weren't quite so complimentary last Thursday.
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50:50 NI and Stratagem are on a mission to get more women into elected politics. Last year we launched a training programme that aims to give women the skills, knowledge and experience to run for elected office.
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When the UK left the European Union, it left behind access to EU structural funding beyond 2020. Locally this is a loss of around £600 million per year. In the last few weeks, the UK Government launched its response - the UK Community Renewal Fund—a one-year pilot of distributing £220 million and which is meant to inform the design of the much-heralded UK Shared Prosperity Fund (SPF).
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