One Public Estate

Stephen JacobsOne Public Estate

Local Government Association

* Central Government source - Whole Government Accounts 2012/13 p.91, (Dwellings/Land/Buildings) net book value £347.8bn Local Government source - DCLG Local Government Financial Statistics England No.23, May 2013, p.103

One Public Estate

▪Core DH and small ALBs subject to central controls▪NHS Property

Services & NHS Trusts/FTs score towards £5 billion asset sales

●Hubs●New Property Model●Asset Efficiency

Public Sector Asset Base

Whole Public Sector Asset Base: £347.8bn*

One Public Estate

OPE received 2 years worth of funding in the Spending Review 2015 – £37 million.

Over three quarters of councils in 60 partnerships are members of the OPE programme as of January 2017, with allocations from £50,000 to £500,000.

OPE target is to achieve 95% of councils on the programme by 2018.

OPE’s core objectives are:1. Creating economic growth (new homes and jobs)2. More integrated, customer-focused services3. Generating capital receipts4. Reducing running costs One Public Estate Coverage

(February 2017)

Projected Benefits & KPIs

Service IntegrationSupports Single Departmental Plan commitment to deliver 45+ co-locations of public sector services over the Parliament

Health and Social care integration Cornwall, Manchester, Leeds & London

£98 million

44,000

25,000

£415 million

Central Government Reforms

Government Hubs

NHS Strategic Estates Plans

MoD Footprint Strategy-

Early disposals

Network Rail creating company to deliver receipts & housing

DWP PFI contract ends

2018

Courts & prisons Reform: courts

sales; 9 new prisons

DfE – 500 new Free Schools

by 2020

DVSA soon to announce

surplus depots

Duty to Report on Surplus Land

Duty to Report on Efficiency & Sustainability

Right to Contest strengthened

Duty to Engage Capital Receipt Flexibility Priority Purchaser status

New Tools

Housing Delivery

• government has committed to release land to build an additional 160,000 homes by 2020.

• Target to release £5 billion worth of land and property to meet target

• In 2016 the LGA set a pledge that local authorities in its membership would seek to match governments ambitions and release local government owned land for a further 160,000 homes.

• Many councils establishing housing development companies. Those in OPE areas include Cambridgeshire, Northumberland, Bedford and Croydon

• DCLG £18 million ‘capacity fund’ for councils to accelerate housing building on large sites

Central Government Local Government IN COLLABORATION

OPE is supporting the delivery of

16,500 new homes by 2020 to a collaborative

approach on both local and central government land

contributing to both ambitions

An Integrated Estates Strategy with the NHS LB Croydon

• Croydon have an ambitious development programme

• In total 80 sites identified, 15 of these owned by wider public sector

• Using OPE funding to develop 4 core sites including Croydon University Hospital

• Outcomes include 600 new homes and 7 new community facilities

CornwallBlue Light Collaboration

Liskeard Tri-Service Centre

Redevelopment of Plymouth Rail Station

• MOU agreed by 4 major public land owners – Plymouth City Council, University of Plymouth, Network Rail and Great Western Rail

• Working in partnership to regenerate the station and gateway to city centre

• OPE funding feasibility work for a new station and extended university and civic quarter.

Plymouth

Opportunity Knocks

6 year historic low cost of borrowing money

Making your own weather…

Closer working with major government asset-owning departments

Partnering with the private sector / different sources of investment

Government funded programmes and legislation

Central Government releasing assets