Corporate Asset Management Plan (Land and Buildings) 2008-2011

'Making best use of the assets whilst meeting customer need'

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Foreword

By Councillor Kieran Quinn, Cabinet Deputy (Economic Services)

The land and buildings portfolio is one of the Council’s key resources. We have made great strides over the last few years to use the portfolio for the benefit of our community. The list of asset management projects shows that over the years the Council has never shirked making hard decisions over the use of its asset base. Typical initiatives have brought about quality Customer First one-stop-shops and joint police-patroller posts to ensure each area of the Borough has local contact points for the provision of essential services

The imperative to bring new, quality jobs to Tameside to replace the declining manufacturing ones has resulted in commercial and office developments at Ashton Moss and St Petersfield respectively. In each case the Council’s land ownership has played a part. The buoyant housing market and desire to ensure local people have access to a good range of well designed, residential accommodation has spurred some excellent local developments many of which have involved Council land. The latest of these at Droylsden Canalside will provide waterside living for the 21st Century. After careful negotiations over a number of years and innovation in the use of public funds and our own land bank, the Hattersley Regeneration Project is set to move forward on site.

Having demonstrated our effective use of resources so far, the next challenge is to make a step change in the way we use our operational portfolio, ensuring its place-shaping role for the community, to deliver the services of the future against a background of increasing demands for efficiency. This will mean a more strategic approach than before and will involve greater collaboration with our Local Strategic Partners and more pro-active use of our asset database and measurement of asset performance. This Corporate Asset Management Plan, Tameside’s fourth since the year 2000, sets out the Council’s approach for the next three years and describes how we intend to meet the challenge of improving efficiency and delivering the aspirations of all service users.

Councillor Kieran Quinn, Cabinet Deputy (Economic Services)
August 2007

Contents

1. Executive Summary
2. Introduction
3. Corporate Context
4. Corporate Asset Framework
5. Changes in the External Environment and their Implications for Property
6. Service Delivery and Accommodation needs
7. Likely future requirements of Service areas
8. Existing portfolio and its performance
9. Review and Challenge
10. Options Appraisal
11. Asset Management Programme

• Appendix A - Corporate landlord programme
• Appendix B - Corporate Landlord Programme Brief
• Appendix C - Non-tmbc references