The UK’s public services are stretched thin across the country, serving higher numbers of people with lower budgets. Introducing minimum standards and levels of infrastructure and services could help to reduce local and regional inequalities and ensure that all places prosper.
Everyone should have access to a minimum level and standard of public services, local amenities and transport and communications networks, no matter where they live. The idea of ‘ universal basic infrastructure ’ (UBI) is that all different kinds of places – and the people in them – can best fulfil their economic potential.
Such a platform of infrastructure […]
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