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Are you a Local authority with a long list of identified surplus sites which may be suitable for housing development? Are you seeking to optimise new homes delivery?

Surplus Council owned land offers an important resource for the delivery of new homes to meet local housing needs.

Our ‘Prioritising housing pipelines’ tool will help you decipher, which sites out of a long list of sites, have the greatest potential to be brought forward – and  the appropriate mechanisms for securing their delivery.

It is increasingly important for councils seeking to target limited resources in the right areas,  deliver new housing and regenerate  their areas.

Adopting a tried and tested methodology to select and prioritise sites supports the preparation of a phase development programme to ensure resources are targeted in those areas with the greatest potential to yield results. Download the tool and information below, with compliments from Local Partnerships.

Together, the Energy Systems Catapult and Local Partnerships have produced a series of business case templates, specifically for use by local authorities planning local energy projects.

The templates, also available on Net Zero Go, aim to provide a framework for structured thinking with section headings, guidance notes, draft text, graphs and tables and suggested workshop sessions to assist in the development and sign off of local energy projects.

The templates are based upon the HM Treasury Green Book Five Case Model. They seek to follow and build upon the Better Business Case Guidance and Local Partnerships experience of support the development of these projects.

Templates available include:

• Heat Networks Strategic Outline Case
• Solar PV Strategic Outline Case
• Retrofit Strategic Outline Case
• Generic Strategic Outline Case
• Generic Outline Business Case

Local Partnerships has successfully supported Local Authorities to develop their business cases, if you would like to discuss your project with a member of the team, please contact Vicky Kingston.

Help us, help you deliver robust business cases for local energy projects!

To further support Local Authorities in the development and sign off of business cases for local energy projects, the Energy Systems Catapult and Local Partnerships have developed a short survey to understand more about some of the challenges that you might be experiencing and where more support could help progress the drafting and approvals process. give us insight into their experiences and thoughts on the templates then we can improve and develop these further’ – we can’t do it with out your help.

We would love to hear from you to help us identify what further support you require – fill in the survey.

Learn from the Local Partnerships “The Sourcing Playbook Case Studies“.

We’ve hand-picked case studies of local authorities that have integrated the principles of The Sourcing Playbook to level-up their procurement capabilities.

Now it’s your turn to gain valuable insights from their experiences and incorporate these lessons into your own local authorities. Click on the Case Studies link below to get started.

To support you to understand your markets and prepare for sourcing we have developed a template for market assessment and sourcing strategy development. This will enable you to take the approach set out in the case studies. These are linked below.

Jane Forshaw, presents the webinar: “Effective approaches for integrating fleet budgeton” behalf of the Welsh Government Energy Service, hosted a webinar to help attendees navigate the financial aspects of transition towards a zero emission fleet, with speakers from Nottingham City Council, Monmouthshire County Council and Powys County Council.

Local Partnerships recently provided support to Wiltshire Council as it was preparing to re-tender a large framework to provide support for young people and adults of working age with additional needs due to mental health, learning disabilities and/or on the autistic spectrum (MHLDA). Local Partnerships has produced the Wiltshire Council Case Study.

Read four of our RE:FIT: Case Studies about how Re:fit framework has helped local authorities, Cambridgeshire County Council, Huntingdonshire District Council, Sir Harry Smith Community College and Historic buildings City of Cardiff Council.

Energy efficiency and financial savings through Re:fit

RE:FIT is a procurement framework and support service available to all public sector organisations in the UK.

Since 2009 it has been helping organisations to deliver “spend-to-save” environmental retrofit projects that both improve their buildings and, importantly, make substantial guaranteed financial savings.

Supporting transport and infrastructure projects

We have recently supported local authorities and delivery partners to progress a range of high value transport projects and keep them on track for delivery. Our support has included help to resolve contract issues, support with procurement processes, programme and project management and capacity building.