Two of the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s decisions made public yesterday (October 7) during the Conservative Party conference in Manchester could have a significant impact on Guildford’s future
One is the announcement that George Osbourne has poached Labour peer Lord Adonis, a former Labour Cabinet minister, to be his new planning “tsar” the other that local authorities will be able to retain all the business rates they collect described as the “biggest transfer of power to local government in living memory”.