News & Insights

Type

Theme

City

Devolution

28 March 2025

Edinburgh joins Core Cities UK

Edinburgh has joined Core Cities UK, becoming the organisation's 12th member city, its third national capital, and expanding the UK-wide reach of the…
Economy

9 January 2025

Our response to the Industrial Strategy Green Paper

We welcome the Industrial Strategy Green Paper, but there is more to do if we are to unleash our cities' vast economic potential.
Climate Investment

26 November 2024

How the Core Cities are leading on Net Zero

Some examples of the innovative work taking place across the Core Cities to help the UK reach its Net Zero targets.
Future of Cities

26 July 2024

A new Chair for Core Cities UK

Leader of Leeds City Council Cllr James Lewis is the new chair of Core Cities UK
Future of Cities

17 July 2024

Unlocking UK Cities' Potential

As the Government launches its legislative programme with economic growth and devolution at its heart, we publish some basic first principles as to…
Future of Cities

10 July 2024

Letter to the new Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer

Our Cabinet writes to the new PM stressing the importance of cities to UK economic growth
Future of Cities

6 May 2024

International students worth billions to city economies

We write to Prof Brian Bell, Chair of the Government's Migration Advisory Commitee, asking for the Graduate Visa Route to be retained.
Future of Cities

19 January 2024

Mayor Rees looks back on his time as our our chair

Outgoing chair Mayor of Bristol Marvin Rees writes about Urban Britain's challenges and opportunities
Future of Cities

18 October 2023

The Second National Infrastructure Assessment - Our Response

We welcome the findings of the second National Infrastructure Assessment, particularly its focus on regional transport and the role of cities in…
Future of Cities

4 October 2023

Our response to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's conference speech in Manchester

We will always argue that strong productive cities are only beneficial to surrounding areas,
Future of Cities

28 September 2023

The RSA UK Urban Futures Report

This report, published in September 2023, asks three big questions: What are Cities? Where do they need to get to? How do we get them there?
Future of Cities

27 September 2023

Towards the UK's Urban Future

We back a major new report that looks at how our cities can realise their full potential.
Future of Cities

23 March 2023

Urban groups unite to make joint offer to Government

Core Cities UK joins other urban groups in letter to Michael Gove MP as we gather for second Urban Summit
Future of Cities

2 February 2023

Commissioners Announced for UK Urban Futures Commission

Leading experts appointed to look at the future of UK cities
Future of Cities

30 September 2022

Core Cities UK announces new director

Stephen Jones is the new director of Core Cities UK
Future of Cities

8 September 2022

Our letter to the new Prime Minister

We've written to the new Prime Minister with an offer to work together so our cities can reach their full potential
Future of Cities

8 July 2022

Major new commission into Urban Britain launched

We team up with colleagues at RSA to launch a commission into the future of Urban UK
Future of Cities

13 April 2022

Levelling Up Cannot Happen Without Successful Cities

Our full response to the Levelling Up White Paper
Future of Cities

25 March 2022

A farewell from our Chair, Cllr Nick Forbes

Our outgoing chair Cllr Nick Forbes blogs about Core Cities UK's achievements during his time at the helm. Marvin Rees, Mayor of Bristol, will now…
Future of Cities

2 February 2022

It's time to put the Local in Levelling Up

Our Chair Cllr Nick Forbes on the Levelling Up White Paper
Future of Cities

20 May 2021

The Future of Urban Centres

Core Cities UK and Key Cities work together to produce major new report into the future of our cities
Future of Cities

19 May 2021

The Future of Urban Centres Online Evidence Base