| IEWM has conducted a major asset management pilot study in the West Midlands (with seven local authorities, Local Partnerships and PWC). The Way Forward - Transforming Property Asset Management has highlighted the potential to yield £640 million over the next ten years across the region (£467m capital receipts and £163m revenue savings). |
About WMPA
West Midlands Property Alliance (WMPA) is an unincorporated, local authority led body which has been created to orchestrate and oversee a programme which will:
- Accelerate the achievement of value and efficiencies from the region's public sector estate;
- Contribute to the successful achievement of place based delivery of public services;
- Result in the creation of a smaller, higher quality, better utilised public sector estate.
WMPA involves all 33 of the region's local authorities and works in close collaboration with other local, sub-regional, regional and national public bodies including central government.
WMPA is governed by an Executive Board consisting of representatives from central, regional and local government, and is chaired by the Chief Executive of Coventry City Council. (See Executive Board)
Programme – Phase One
The phase one work was jointly funded by Improvement and Efficiency West Midlands (IEWM) and Local Partnerships and represented the first collaborative estate management review undertaken within local government. It focused on proving the strategic outline business case (SOBC) for a coordinated response to improving property asset management across the local government sector.
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The SOBC identified many examples of good practice across the seven councils who participated in the review. It also highlighted considerable opportunities for financial efficiency savings locally, regionally and nationally, through improving the way asset management is delivered, working in partnership both within local government and together with other agency partners. As a consequence, IEWM encouraged the creation of the WMPA to govern the next stage of the programme i.e. Phase 2 and ensure a focussed, co-ordinated and collaborative approach to the realisation of the aforementioned efficiency opportunities
Programme – Phase Two
The initial programme will focus on the following Projects;
| Project |
Summary |
Detail |
| Data |
Encourage and support the mapping of the region's public sector estate in a consistent manner to enable collaboration and rationalisation opportunities to be identified. Consider the longer term process and system changes that are necessary to generate property performance information that enables area based management of public sector property. |
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| Shared Services & Functions |
Investigate solutions to the practical and policy barriers that discourage the sharing of accommodation across organisational boundaries such as, for example, IT, physical access, security, and health & safety issues. |
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| Efficiencies from Facilities Management |
Research the extent and timing of potential collaborative opportunities within facilities management and support clusters that subsequently pursue efficiency generating procurement exercises. |
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| Tools |
Capture both pre-existing and newly generated knowledge, learning and experiences which can help local authorities and their partners accelerate efficiencies from asset management. In addition, establish the infrastructure to disseminate such material across the region and into national networks. |
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Events
| Date |
Event |
Outputs |
| 29 September 2009 |
Launch of 'The Way Forward - Transforming Local Government Property Asset Management' |
Agenda
Slides
Feedback
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| 11 December 2009 |
Launch of the West Midlands Property Alliance |
Agenda
Slides |
| April & May 2010 |
Asset Mapping Workshops
(15th April 2010 - Stafford; 23rd April 2010 - Coventry; 18th May 2010 - Wolverhampton)
Three workshops were held around the region to hear about the asset mapping work being undertaken by colleagues across the region, learn about the opportunities that have been created and the difficulties/challenges faced; and understand what could be done at a technical, operational and strategic level to improve the scale of work i.e. how can the West Midlands Property Alliance help?
The sessions were jointly led by Worcestershire County Council and OGC (slides attached). The outputs of the sessions are contained in the Data Project page. |
Slides
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| 3rd November 2010 |
Annual West Midlands Property Alliance Conference
Birmingham City Council Banqueting Suite
Improvement and Efficiency West Midlands hosted a free conference which looked at developments in local government property asset management. The conference was also a timely opportunity to consider the implications of CSR10 for public sector asset management in the West Midlands.
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Agenda
Slides Part 1
Slides Part 2 |
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