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ACES TERRIER THE ASSOCIatION OF CHIEF EStatES SURVEYORS & PROPERTY MANAGERS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR VOLUME 24 ISSUE 3 AUTUMN 2019 SINCE 1908 MAACESNAGING PUBLIC PROPERTY FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD CLOUDS WE KNOW WHERE TO FIND THE SILVER BITS When the forecasts get gloomy, our team of extraordinary people can draw on years of expertise to provide enlightening wisdom. Silver linings are as sure as rain, when you know where to look. carterjonas.co.uk Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram VOLUME 24 - ISSUE 3 - Autumn 2019 ACES TERRIER The Journal of ACES - The Association of Chief Estates Surveyors & Property Managers in the Public Sector CONTENTS ACES National EDITORIAL National Conference report - Peter Gregory................................04 Conference social report - Ann Bishop............................................13 Betty Albon Council Meeting - Trevor Bishop......................................................15 Welcome to the 2019 Autumn Terrier. And doesn’t it feel like autumn? Membership news - Trevor Bishop..................................................17 That was not the case for the very successful ACES’ National Conference, held on the Isle of Wight. We were treated to Professional splendid weather, excellent venues, a whole range of speakers, Municipal Journal Awards - Chris Rhodes...................................18 and a lot of support from our private sector friends and Empty properties - Jan Ambrose....................................................20 colleagues. But you can read all about it in this issue – although Developer procurement - Duncan Thomas..................................22 that’s nothing like the experience of actually attending a full 2-days of learning and networking. Make a date now in your Partnering for outsourcing - Dave Ayre.......................................25 diary for 2020 Conference in Greater Manchester on 24-25 County farms estate review - Simon Cartmell..............................28 September. The conference flyer is already posted on the ACES’ Change management - Chris Brain..................................................30 website, so take a look www.aces.org.uk Community assets - Anthony Bamford.........................................32 I’m pleased to report an interesting range of topics of interest Car parks for homes - Ian McGuinness...........................................34 in this issue. Probably of note are 3 complementary articles about Eco towns - Kevin Joyce......................................................................37 telecoms – context, the new code, and risks for landowners. I found them extremely interesting, if somewhat concerning for Social housing stigma - Ken Morgan............................................39 land owners. There is a variety of topics for practitioners, just take Legal update - Antony Phillips..........................................................41 a look down the contents page and I’m sure there’s something for Compulsory purchase - Roger Moore..............................................44 you and your colleagues. 5G rollout - Mike Forster......................................................................45 While every reasonable effort has been made to ensure the Electronics Communications Code - Michael Watson.............47 accuracy of the information and content provided in this document at Electronic communications installations - John Goodacre....49 the date of publication, no representation is made as to its correctness CLOUDS or completeness and no responsibility or liability is assumed for errors IFRS16 - Chris Ramsden........................................................................53 or omissions. Regaining possession - David Asker...............................................55 WE KNOW WHERE TO The views expressed by the authors are not necessarily those of CIL regulations - Gilian Macinnes.....................................................58 ACES. Neither the authors or ACES nor the publisher accept any RICS APC - Jen Lemen.......................................................................60 FIND THE SILVER BITS liability for any action arising from the use to which this publication may be put. When the forecasts get gloomy, Branches news our team of extraordinary people North East - John Read........................................................................63 can draw on years of expertise to Published by Marcus Macaulay Design & Photography London - Alan Wharton.......................................................................64 provide enlightening wisdom. (07572 757834) www.marcusmacaulay.com North West - Gill Boyle..........................................................................66 Silver linings are as sure as rain, when you know where to look. Other interest areas Meaning of Terrier - Betty Albon.....................................................67 carterjonas.co.uk Selwyn - Dave Pogson............................................................................68 Cover photo: Cowes Yacht Haven, Isle of Wight, the venue for ACES’ Conference. Photograph (and all others relating to the conference) by Steve Collins. Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram THE TERRIER - AUTUMN 2019 3 NATIONAL CONFERENCE, ISLE OF WIGHT “Improving lives through property” Peter Gregory and Betty Albon This report is a brief summary of the presentations made at ACES Conference, Opening address held at The Yacht Haven in Cowes, Isle President, Graeme Haigh opened the of Wight. More detailed articles of the 2018 National Conference by welcoming presentations will be included in this and delegates to the event to show that ‘property subsequent editions of ACES’ Terrier. My changes lives’. sincere thanks to Peter Gregory, ACES’ Vice President, for providing the majority of this account. Keynote address Councillor Dave Stewart, Leader of Isle of Wight (IoW) Council, welcomed delegates to the island. The IoW asset base is wide and varied and includes income-generating investments in Kent, Hampshire and Southampton, working in partnership with Portsmouth Council. The council looks to achieve £4.5m savings for each of the next 3 years: £80m has already been saved, assisted by a rent roll of £1m p.a. from £35m capital spend. The regeneration team is actively engaged in a number of projects, large and small, The Place Panel including Newport Harbour, the historic towns of Newport and Ryde, and Venture This was the first of 4 panel sessions. The Quays in East Cowes. Other initiatives include session commenced with a joint presentation attracting new businesses to retain younger from 2 panel members – Rick Lawrence, people on the island (Rangefinder House), Places for People, and Nicholas Cook, Surrey extra-care developments as alternatives to County Council (SCC) which have formed hospitalisation, rural housing schemes and South Ridge Development LLP. It has been infrastructure. created as a joint venture partnership [Ed – Chris Ashman, Director of Regeneration, this presentation will form a more detailed IoW added meat to Councillor Stewart’s article in a future edition of Terrier]. outline of initiatives, adding that to deliver SCC has a community vision bringing the programme, the property team has together people and place, to give them a developed skills central to successful great start in life, healthy, achieving their regeneration, to be collaborative, potential, all contributing, no one left commercial, innovative, pro-active, strategic, behind. Its asset strategy looks for growth, and client-focused [Ed – Chris Ashman’s management, income, rationalisation, presentation will form a more detailed article surplus land, and a review of non- in a future edition of Terrier]. operational assets. 4 THE TERRIER - AUTUMN 2019 needs a data scientist and analyst to make sense of it. Most property management systems are not “big data” and the property industry has been slow to use it. Siemens is seeking to apply data in the urban realm; by 2030 there will be more data than stars in the cosmos; only 0.05% of data is being analysed and only 15% of assets are connected to data sources. Soon, big data will be used in energy and transportation systems. Non-sharing of data is one of the biggest issues in the property industry. Data has a value, so private organisations wish to be paid for providing it. Intellectual advantage is taken away if data is shared, but data analysis firms are slowly taking away private control. There are efforts to overcome the problem by the introduction of shared databases, eg Radius, the agents’ database. The potential The characteristics of the LLP are a the single asset approach to create multi- of access to other’s data encourages sharing. 50/50 partnership; SCC owns the land and functional assets: people relate to ‘place’ to However, challenges occur because of asset provides it at nil value, with the expectation create a sense of uniqueness and identity, identification (eg varying addresses for the that SCC will receive a return. SCC provides which also helps to raise asset values. same properties). the framework with a brief – the JV then Is there a danger of creating identikit The RICS has a role to improve different brings forward maximised value, in terms areas? This can be avoided by locally driven skillsets such as data analysts. We need of financial and social outcomes. Income master-planning and evidence based needs, to look to change our property teams, to is reinvested into council services. Staffing involving the local community. Feedback