Individual performance is a reflection of local priorities (and constraints). A nimby authority is never going to deliver lots of housing anymore than a cash starved authority is going to pump money into regeneration projects. Are they less productive than the aggregate, probably but if residents are happy does it matter?
Productivity as a sector or LA by LA basis?
Individual performance is a reflection of local priorities (and constraints). A nimby authority is never going to deliver lots of housing anymore than a cash starved authority is going to pump money into regeneration projects. Are they less productive than the aggregate, probably but if residents are happy does it matter?
Local authorities as institutions and place-makers.
Highways is a vastly important and expensive piece of local government that should be very susceptible to productivity analysis.
There’s been a huge amount of analysis into transport (not least for DfT) in the way that there isn’t of local government as a sector. Some useful stuff in this Evidence Review: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/671a041baa6c7eb217b778e5/dft-economic-impacts-transport-interventions.pdf