The Strategy
The financial challenges faced by the Council have been well documented. Reducing central funding coupled with growing demand for services has resulted in the Council having to look innovatively at everything it does. The Council established the Commercial and Investment Committee during 2016 to drive a more commercial approach within the organisation and to deliver better financial returns from its property and asset holdings. The remit of the Committee now includes driving all aspects of the Council’s commercial agenda. As a consequence the Committee have agreed that as part of this programme it will develop a strategic approach to commercial acquisitions. Any commercial acquisition carries with it a degree of risk and as this involves the investment
of public funds the rationale for engaging in such activity should be clear. The Council is looking to invest to mitigate budgetary pressures and to increase revenue that supports front line services. The wider Estates Strategy which seeks to develop effective relationships with Members, Developers and strategic partners.
Tasked with finding innovative ways of transforming the whole property service,
(including Estates and Asset Management, Rural, FM and Compliance), the Head of Property will be responsible for creating and implementing the Council’s Estates Strategy moving forward.
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