Can any economic measure that has land value uplift at its core, really contribute towards the levelling up of the British economy and is this Government ready to move away from its tried and tested model? The BCR debate has been brought sharply into focus this weekend with rumours surfacing that the Treasury are exploring major reform to the way it assesses the value for money of big spending projects, removing the longstanding bias that has affected funding for northern England.

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