Report prepared by Volterra Partners for TfL and TFGM calls for transport funding reform
Transport for London and Transport for Greater Manchester recently commissioned Volterra to produce a report looking at long term investment in transport in cities. The report investigates how the current approach to evaluating and funding transport projects is likely to lead to ‘damaging underinvestment’ and calls for more devolved decision making capabilities for cities giving […]
Northern Line Extension gets the green light
Volterra, led by Bridget Rosewell, advised on the case for Transport for London’s Northern Line Extension (NLE) to Nine Elms and Battersea. The project was given the go-ahead by the Secretary of State for Transport earlier this month. Bridget was responsible for providing the Economic and Business Case. Her analysis showed that the NLE has […]
Planning permission granted to new hotel development in Finsbury Square following Volterra Report
Permission was granted earlier this month for The Montcalm Hotel Group to convert the Royal London House in Finsbury Square to a 256 room hotel. Islington Council initially refused planning consent as they did not want to lose office space and stated that a hotel would compromise the economic function of the area. Volterra were […]
Bridget puts QE ‘In the balance’
Volterra’s Bridget Rosewell was featured on BBC World Service’s In the Balance programme earlier this month in a programme where economics correspondent Andrew Walker led a discussion on whether or not Quantitative Easing has worked in the USA. Bridget talked of how she feels QE was essential in the first instance and greatly helped in […]
