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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With many speculating the talks to restore the power-sharing Executive and Assembly are in the final stages, we look back on a few key dates along the way, what has been discussed during the talks and outline the steps required to get the Executive back up and running.
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Along with the John and Pat Hume Foundation, Stratagem has delivered its second successful Future Politics: Delivering Effective Government Conference.
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At the weekend I had the privilege of joining a panel on the Good Friday Agreement as part of Cushendun’s Culture Month. A well-rehearsed subject over the past six months, what was refreshing about this event was that it wasn’t based in Belfast or Derry, but in the Glens of Antrim, a rural community that largely escaped the worst of the Troubles.
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As the dust settles from the departed motorcades ferrying various former and current Heads of State and VVIPs after the QUB conference last week, this week in politics tells a very different story.
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