One Public Estate Phase 6 Open Day Kirsty Rouillard, Cabinet Office Craig Egglestone, Local Government Association
What’s on offer? One Public Estate DCLG Land Release Fund ● £9m revenue Funding ● c. £24m capital funding this round ● £7m grant funding & ● Release local authority owned £2m loan funding to established partnerships land by 2020 for housing Partnerships can apply for either or both pots of funding
Where did it begin? ● Collaborative property-based programme ● Three main aims: ○ Generate efficiencies ○ Create economic growth ○ Deliver more integrated customer-focused services ● Delivered by GPU & the LGA ● 12 pilots in 2013 + 20 more in 2014 ● Reached 112 councils in 2015 with £6m of investment
The OPE model Bringing Public Sector partners together Development of policy to assist local delivery Access to central government Funding and Reporting on benefits Asset mapping professional support Opportunities workshops Sharing best practice Data support Generating ideas, a shared vision and programme
Where we are now? ● £31m to reach 95% by March 2018 ● Working with: ○ 255 councils in 63 partnerships ○ 13 main government departments ○ Over 350 projects ● Already delivered: ○ £27.6m capital receipts ○ £20m running cost savings ○ Over 5500 jobs ○ Land released for over 550 homes ● Housing and Planning Act
What will we deliver by 2019/20? Capital receipts Running cost savings £615m £158m Jobs Land released for housing 44,000 25,000
Central government opportunities Network Rail: capital receipts & land DWP PFI contract ends 2018: for housing co-location opportunities NHS Strategic Estates Plans and Government Hubs: consolidating Naylor Review: integrating health c.800 central government offices and social care & housing into c.200 by 2023 DVSA surplus depots; MoD surplus sites for disposal: Defra depots for co-location releasing land for housing Courts & prisons reform: DfE free schools: building 100 new court sales and 9 new prisons free schools a year
Liverpool’s Knowledge Quarter ● Will establish one of the world’s leading innovation districts in Liverpool city centre ● £1 billion flagship expansion site ● 2,000 jobs (170 already confirmed) ● 3.4 hectares of quality public realm
Transforming Bedford ● 700 New homes and development ● Multi-million pound heritage-based regeneration project ● Match funding of £2.33m from the Estates & Technology Transformation Fund
LB Sutton’s London Cancer Hub ● Transforming 26 hectares of land into the world’s largest life science cluster ● Bringing together four public sector landowners ● 10,000 jobs
Key to a successful OPE Application ● It should involve a range of ● Delivery will be within 5 years public bodies (more strategic projects 10 ● It will deliver 1 or more of our years) ● It will be ambitious but credible core priorities (growth, ● It will be driven by local priorities efficiencies or customer focused services) or support government with its ● It have strong governance land release agenda ● It will be strategic, or involve a arrangements, which drive delivery large single site opportunity ● Project management is key to ● Existing partnerships should be success able to demonstrate successful delivery to date.
Common Themes Across OPE ● Working across wider city deals, Devolution, LEP, combined authority areas ● LEPs are a key partner ● Looking to access health land for large housing opportunities ● Area-wide health and social care integration ● Community hubs on a county-wide scale ● Co-ordinated approaches to using public assets to regenerate town centres ● DWP co-locations ● Solutions for surplus central government property and land (e.g. MOJ)
Repayable Grants - Pilot ● The pilot will look to offer We will consider providing a repayable grants up to £500,000 repayable grant for the following to four or five OPE partnerships activities: ● Interest free, fully repayable by a • feasibility and master planning pre-agreed number of years • site remediation (three years is likely) • planning ● Any funding asks for repayable • valuation grants will need to show • other funded works outside they produce additional or programme capacity building accelerated outputs activity
Pool of Experts OPE is establishing a pool of experts that will provide capacity and professional capability to support and deliver projects where expertise does not reside in-house. Specific specialised skills will Benefits: ● include: Available at short notice • ● master planning Streamlined approach to • procurement feasibility studies • ● options appraisals Trusted team that can • surveyors share learning • ● design Accelerate the delivery of • procurement OPE projects
Application Process
One Public Estate Criteria Note: This criteria applies to the OPE grant and loan funding only. DCLG’s Land Release Fund criteria will follow later today.
Where do we go next? ● Closer working with major asset-owning government departments ● Partnering with the private sector ● Implementing a cultural shift to a more sustainable programme ● More co-locations and integration of services ● Expanding the programme to deliver more projects at an accelerated pace
Regional Contacts North-East, Yorkshire and Humber, East Midlands Michael O’Doherty michael.odoherty@local.gov.uk 07464 652 905 Susan Betts susan.betts@cabinetoffice.gov.uk North West, West Midlands 07736 846 786 Jayne Traverse jayne.traverse@local.gov.uk East England 07464 652 847 Liz Wigley Carl Hewson liz.wigley@cabinetoffice.gov.uk carl.hewson@cabinetoffice.gov.u 07841 800 771 k Ben Stoneman 07736 453 451 ben.stoneman@local.gov.uk 07717 720620 South West Chris Watts London chris.watts2@cabinetoffice.gov.uk Joe Garrod 07701371973 joe.garrod@local.gov.uk 07919385412
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