Growth Index

Which places make the future easier to build?

Future Union is building a source-backed index of the places, councils, systems, and blockers that shape whether homes, energy, infrastructure, and enterprise actually happen.

First source pass

The useful first action is evidence collection.

A credible index starts with source families, update paths, caveats, and public output shapes. The league table comes later, after review.

A source pass means collecting and checking the public data before any scoring.

Candidate source map

Planning throughput

Local planning portals, Planning Inspectorate decisions, council committee papers, published planning performance tables.

First receipt live

Housing delivery

ONS housing affordability data, local plans, completions data, housing delivery test material, council pipeline documents.

Needs source owner

Enterprise signal

ONS business demography, Companies House formations, commercial vacancy data, local economic data pages.

Research mission

Energy and grid

Grid connection queue publications, energy project trackers, local infrastructure plans, developer testimony.

Method design

Infrastructure execution

Project business cases, local transport updates, NAO-style reports, council capital programme papers, delivery milestones.

Source-building tasks