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Local Partnerships helps local authorities and other public sector bodies to deliver cost savings, with a strong focus on supporting the delivery of high quality services to residents and businesses. We have worked closely with Defra for five years managing the Waste Infrastructure Development Programme (WIDP), the £3 billion PFI programme for the waste sector. […]

New delivery models The housing crisis is one of the most pressing economic issues facing the UK today. If a solution is to be found, it will require some radical new thinking. Local Partnerships partnered with City & Financial Global for this event. 100 delegates attended the summit to hear leading industry experts including Councillor […]

Building on the success of the existing Refit programme, the Greater London Authority (GLA) and Local Partnerships (LP), working in partnership with Crown Commercial Service have now launched a third iteration of the Refit framework. The new national energy performance contracting framework is intended for use by public bodies throughout the whole of the UK, […]

The Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning & Transport (ADEPT) is an umbrella organisation representing local authority county, unitary and metropolitan Directors responsible for ‘Place based’ services. Their remits include economic development, transport and communications, planning and housing and the environment. The 2015 ADEPT Conference – Delivering Real Change in the Places We Live- […]

Aspire Wellbeing is a social enterprise established in 2013 having spun-out of Lambeth Council. It provides a range of health and social care focused activities within its West Dulwich day centre which are aimed at improving the lives of adults with physical and sensory disabilities. This includes physical rehabilitation after a stroke, acquired brain injury […]

The West London Alliance Re:fit submission won the “Best European Energy Service Project” award at the European Energy Services Awards on 9 November in Brussels. Local Partnerships and the GLA provide support to public sector organisations to achieve substantial cost, energy and carbon savings.

Renewable UK Cymru hosted a ceremony to celebrate the Wales Green Energy Awards on Friday 6 November. Local Partnerships’ Jane Forshaw was a finalist for “Outstanding Advocate of the Year”. Jane Davidson, former Welsh Government Minister and sustainability champion was a judge and presented the awards.David Clubb, Renewable UK Cymru Director, described how renewable energy […]

In March 2015, Government announced that 20 Housing Zones had been designated which can provide 36,000 new homes on brownfield land. The Zones represent some of the country’s, most challenging opportunities for new build supply and Local Partnerships’ client, the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) have promised a tailored package of capacity support to councils […]

Local Partnerships is supporting the Welsh Government and the wider public sector in Wales in the delivery of the Green Growth Wales programme, which seeks to accelerate, grow and de-risk the installation of local energy projects within the public sector. There are severe capacity constraints within parts of the national grid and this limits the […]

The housing crisis is one of the most pressing economic issues facing the UK today. If a solution is to be found, it will require some radical new thinking. Local Partnerships is partnering with City & Financial Global for this event and our chief executive,Judith Armitt, will give a presentation at the Housing Delivery Summit […]

Energy efficiency is a significant issue for Cambridgeshire’s economic growth. Cambridgeshire County Council set up a Low Carbon Investment Fund to deliver local energy generation and reduced energy costs. So far the council is delivering over £13 million of energy efficiency retrofits within 61 of their corporate and school buildings and a 12 MWp solar […]

Local Partnerships was pleased to be invited to a meeting of the Housing Private Finance Initiative (PFI) Providers’ Group on Friday 11 September. Held in the new community centre built as part of the Myatts Field Housing PFI contract, it was a great opportunity to hear from a number of PFI providers about the challenges […]

The National Association of Waste Disposal Officers (NAWDO) organised a meeting to discuss partnership working. Over twenty local authorities attended alongside Defra and DCLG. The meeting was facilitated by Local Partnerships’ John Enright.Morning presentations identified barriers to working together and covered a range of issues, from sovereignty to culture – should services be kept in-house […]

Housing Minister Brandon Lewis recently set out the Government’s aim to have delivered one million new homes by 2020. Increasing housing supply must, therefore, stay at the top of the Government’s agenda for the foreseeable future. As part of Property Week’s ‘Resi Conference’, held in Newport from 7 – 9 September, Local Partnerships’ Simon Bandy […]

The Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) Value for Money team, headed by Local Partnerships’ Jenny Nuttall, has been nominated for a prestigious Civil Service Award for their work on the Government £1.7 billion Superfast Broadband programme.  The team has rolled out an open-book accounting system to over 50 Local Authorities that has delivered unparalleled cost transparency […]

The HM Treasury-commissioned Elphicke House Report emphasises the important role local authorities have in helping increase housing supply. The role covers local authorities’ statutory responsibilities, how they use assets and other resources in a discretionary way, how they work with private sector partners and, perhaps most importantly, how they provide local leadership. To support this […]