● Could county hall staff use surplus district council space – or vice versa?
● Does a town need two council chambers?
● Would members of the community benefit from co- location of county/district/central government services?
● Could local authorities provide Internet or video access to services in other community facilities such as schools or hospitals?
The questions are still very relevant today. Publications/Guidance: Summary
In summarising all these reviewed publications and guidance, these common threads emerge:
● Collaboration/collocation; the future direction for the public sector and public services
● Public sector estate viewed as a Joint Strategic Resource
● Strong engaged management; essential to break down barriers to make initiatives such as Total Place and Working More Collaboratively happen
● Property performance data; becoming increasingly important in order to demonstrate how your property is efficiently and effectively delivering the services it is charged to deliver
● Property as a catalyst for change
This is shown by the blue boxes and the central box shows the other underlining factors that ensure that asset management is practised effectively. DVS Property Specialists has worked in partnership with RICS to produce a web-based e-learning package of the asset management guidelines. There are five modules available over the Internet and these are still available free of charge to public sector organisations. These are available on the Valuation Office Agency website www.
voa.gov.uk.
Strategic Asset Management: Building On Strong Foundation publication, CLG.
This guidance is “A Framework for Local Authority Asset Management” and has another diagrammatic representation of the asset management process.
STRATEGIC ASSET
MANAGEMENT The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Public Sector Property Asset Management Guidelines (2008) state that strategic property asset management is the activity which aligns business and property strategies ensuring optimisation of the property assets in a way which best supports the organisation’s key business goals and objectives. The guidelines are complete and comprehensive; in addition, RICS has published six Local Authority Asset Management Best Practice Guidelines.
Within the RICS Guidelines is a diagrammatic representation of the asset management process.
ASSET - Liverpool-10
Although this looks different to the RICS version and uses slightly different wording, its objective is to achieve the same outcome. It is about establishing the vision, aligning the
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