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Council-owned community assets in Camden. Jeff Hopwood, Community Assets Strategy Lead Camden Council jeff.hopwood@camden.gov.uk. What do we know about what we’ve got?. Children’s centres. Leisure centres. Community centres. Day centres. Schools. Nurseries. TRA halls. Play centres. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Council-owned community assets in Camden
Jeff Hopwood, Community Assets Strategy LeadCamden Council
jeff.hopwood@camden.gov.uk
Community centres
Day centres
TRA halls
Children’s centres
Nurseries
Play centres
Voluntary sector
What do we know about what we’ve got?
Commercial / shops
Parks
Libraries
Leisure centres
Schools
The Problems
• 200+ premises• Variety of occupation arrangements• Need for capital receipts • Need for corporate approach• Need to better understand social value• Desire to empower VCS and continue their
independence3
Our approach
• Rent relief – pragmatic application• Work with VCS to develop a new lease• Community Investment Programme• Assessing social value
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Rent relief
• For VCOs occupying LBC premises• If client base is:
– >90% Camden residents = 100% rent relief– 50-90% Camden residents = 50% rent relief– <50% Camden residents = no rent relief
• Awarded from 1st January 2012 to 31st March 2015
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The new VCS lease
• 20 year lease, outside L&T Act• Market rent less 35% - rent relief awarded separately• 3 year’s notice break option where:
1. LBC intends to redevelopment2. Landlord’s repairing liabilities become excessive
• LBC will use all reasonable endeavours to re-provide suitable alternative accommodation
• Clarifies responsibilities – on both sides• No need for guarantor or surety• Letter of comfort – pledge to support external funding bids
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Community Investment Programme
• 15 year plan to invest money in schools, homes and community facilities.
• £403m capital funding gap – lost over £200m of capital funding from government
• Redeveloping or selling buildings or land that are underused or expensive to maintain
• Objective is to raise £300m to:– Deliver 2750 new homes– Invest £178m in 13,000 existing homes– Invest £117m in 58 schools and children’s centres– Provide 9,000m2 of improved community facilities & space
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Social value assessment modelQuadrant 3 Low LBC cost / low impact
Quadrant 4 Low LBC cost / high impact
Quadrant 1 High LBC cost / low impact
Quadrant 2 High LBC cost / high impact
100%Ext’l £ 50% 100%LBC £
Low impact Camden Plan High impact
Investment
This model correlates the perceived value of the benefits of services / activities provided from the premises against the cost of the premises to the council.
The objective is that premises fall into Quadrant 4 – the greatest impact at the lowest cost.
This can also be applied to 3rd party community premises, enabling a comparison with LBC premises in a neighbourhood.
Links and contact
• VCS investment & support programme and rent relief – www.camden.gov.uk/vcs
• VCS lease - http://democracy.camden.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=122&MId=4049 item 9, section 5 & appendix 13
• Community Investment Programme – www.camden.gov.uk/cip
• Camden Plan – www.camden.gov.uk/camdenplan • Contact - jeff.hopwood@camden.gov.uk
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