{"id":187961,"date":"2025-06-16T03:25:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T03:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/187961\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T03:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T03:25:14","slug":"glasgow-needs-city-region-powers-and-a-mayor-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/187961\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow ‘needs city-region powers and a mayor’ \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\t\t\"Glasgow-George-Square\"Glasgow City Council needs to unite with neighbouring authorities says the report (pic: Terry Murden)<\/p>\n

Glasgow is at risk of falling behind England\u2019s major cities unless it assumes more powers under a directly-elected \u201ccity region mayor\u201d, according to a think tank.<\/p>\n

Centre for Cities says Glasgow will fail to fulfil its economic potential unless it unites with the seven neighbouring local authorities in the City region area to focus on transport, housing, skills and economic development.<\/p>\n

The research group estimates that if Glasgow performed in line with cities of comparable size in other countries, Scotland\u2019s economy could be up to 4.6% larger \u2013 the equivalent of doubling the size of Scotland\u2019s oil and gas sector.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Over half of the people who work in the city live in neighbouring local authority areas but decisions over transport, planning and housing are made separately and without coordinated leadership, says its report, The Missing Piece in the Big Cities Jigsaw. <\/a><\/p>\n

It says a combined authority, led by a \u201cmetro mayor,\u201d would address this shortcoming and allow the city-region to plan and deliver infrastructure and services at the scale of the entire local economy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"QueenA city-region could plan better transport links, says the report (pic: Terry Murden)<\/p>\n

Glasgow is the only large UK city in this position, leaving it lagging behind most similar-size cities in England and elsewhere in the G7, says the report.<\/p>\n

The call for metro mayors, more likely to be called Provosts in Scotland, is not new, but this report adds to pressure on the Scottish Government to legislate combined authorities in Scotland with Glasgow at the front of the queue for a new \u201cmayor\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The report notes that the mayoral authorities covering all large English cities have been handed greater powers and funding and are set to receive more over this parliament.\u00a0 In last week\u2019s spending review alone, these areas were given an average of \u00a31.7 billion to fund transport investment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Andrew Carter, chief executive of Centre for Cities, said:\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe UK is taking a city-region led approach to economic growth because cities are at the frontier of innovation and economic growth. <\/p>\n

\"\"Andy Burnham, mayor of Manchester, has overseen strong growth of the city region<\/p>\n

\u201cGlasgow has an important role in this, with the potential to make an added economic contribution the size of Scotland\u2019s oil and gas sector if it harnesses its size to generate more cutting-edge activity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cEnglish cities with metro mayors have in the last week been allocated billions to invest in local public transport networks and R&D. <\/p>\n

\u201cScotland too needs its big cities to make a greater contribution to the economy. A directly-elected mayor for the Glasgow city region would bring much-needed leadership, accountability and the ability to shape growth around the city\u2019s needs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cCity-region devolution for Scottish cities is not about copying England. It is about matching the ambition of English devolution. <\/p>\n

\u201cScotland was a devolution leader and by going that extra step to push devolution out to city-region level, it would give people in Glasgow and other cities the chance to have a greater voice and set their own rules.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glasgow City Council needs to unite with neighbouring authorities says the report (pic: Terry Murden) Glasgow is at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,77114,918,77115,77116,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":["post-187961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-glasgow","tag-britain","tag-centre-for-cities","tag-glasgow","tag-glasgow-and-metro-mayor","tag-glasgow-ciy-region","tag-great-britain","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114690911699104354","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}