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T HE T ERRIER THE JOURNAL OF ACES - THE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEF ESTATES SURVEYORS & PROPERTY MANAGERS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR VOLUME 20 - ISSUE 1 - SPRING 2015 ACES OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF MANAGING PUBLIC PROPERTY FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD If walls could talk, what would your property assets say about your organisation? People will always be the public We understand that no one organisation is the same, sector’s greatest asset but with growing which is why we offer a bespoke package of services, selected and adapted to meet your specific needs. demand and year-on-year funding cuts, property and its effective management is • Policy and strategy increasingly important to the successful • Estate management, planning and valuation delivery of public services. • Integrated design • Building maintenance and statutory compliance With expertise and planning, property has the • Sustainability and energy efficiency potential to reduce costs, generate revenue and • Property information and portfolio metrics release value for re-investment in services. For a longer term partnership - our unique approach The way a building is managed, designed or to joint ventures has been nationally acclaimed for maintained, therefore, speaks volumes about the its ability to support local authorities in delivering efficiency, performance and reputation of the efficiencies and quality services. organisation that owns it. Business Development, North Business Development, South Wayne Brierley Janet Russell 07990 582297 07595 552616 Offices throughout the UK - nps.co.uk T HE T ERRIER THE JOURNAL OF ACES - THE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEF ESTATES SURVEYORS & PROPERTY MANAGERS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR VOLUME 20 - ISSUE 1 - SPRING 2015 CONTENts If walls could talk, EDITORIAL what would your property assets say about your organisation? ACES National Betty Albon ACES Presidential Conference............................................................04 Council Meeting - Keith Jewsbury...............................................05 Membership news - Keith Jewsbury..............................................06 Welcome to the Spring Terrier. Obituary - Peter Handley..................................................................07 New ACES website............................................................................07 Some years ago I inherited a set of bound volumes of Estates Gazette. Some of you may remember that in my Presidential Professional year, through a RICS initiative, I ran a campaign to send surveying books to 2 African universities. This included Elphinke House Report.....................................................................08 volumes of contemporary Estates Gazettes. The rest have Underperforming Towns Commission - Jeremy Blackburn.12 been stacked in my loft and I promised myself that when I Careers to RICS - Will Brown.........................................................15 retired, I would skim read them. Well, I have started, on 1963. RICS Viability Conference.................................................................19 Viability review mechanisms - Victoria Critchley..................20 Two things fascinate me. Firstly, in the 1960s the publication People will always be the public We understand that no one organisation is the same, Peterborough FC investment - Richard Hodgson........22 was full of facts in a tight-packed small black font – sector’s greatest asset but with growing which is why we offer a bespoke package of services, Paradise Circus, Birmingham - Peter Jones...........................26 selected and adapted to meet your specific needs. information was not dumbed down. And there was an demand and year-on-year funding cuts, amazing amount of legal and casework advice, particularly Urban design - Ramon Keeley......................................................29 on compulsory purchase. Secondly, the same issues were Offices to residential - Matthew Wood....................................32 property and its effective management is • Policy and strategy concerning surveyors then as are concerning us now. Co-location for services - Andrew Rowson.................................37 increasingly important to the successful • Estate management, planning and valuation For instance, office modernisation and efficiency – being Kensington Town Hall - Keith Harper........................................40 delivery of public services. • Integrated design proposed were electric typewriters, dictaphones and Public Contracts Regulations 2015 - Katherine Souter..........43 • Building maintenance and statutory compliance connected departmental telephones, rather than iPads Municipal Bonds Agency...................................................................47 and iPhones of course (and they had offices!). Shortage of • Sustainability and energy efficiency Community asset transfer - Joanne Forbes............................48 With expertise and planning, property has the housing generally (200,000-400,000 new and refurbished Community assets grants - Stephen Rolph.............................50 • Property information and portfolio metrics units needed a year) and affordable housing was another big potential to reduce costs, generate revenue and Estates health check - Jonathan Marwood..............................52 release value for re-investment in services. issue, particularly the effectiveness of housing associations For a longer term partnership - our unique approach and the potential for a talked about housing corporation. Asset management systems - Bob Howell..............................55 to joint ventures has been nationally acclaimed for There was even a piece about building lives – physical, IFRS13 changes - Chris Brain.........................................................58 The way a building is managed, designed or economic and whole-life costing. its ability to support local authorities in delivering maintained, therefore, speaks volumes about the Branches news efficiencies and quality services. Another interesting snippet was the reporting of the ALAVES efficiency, performance and reputation of the Heart - Richard Allen...........................................................................60 Summer Meeting when the President was Ken Blessley, organisation that owns it. Eastern - Duncan Blackie....................................................................62 whose obituary featured in 2012 Spring Terrier, my first as editor. He was a massive figure in his day, as well as writing North East - John Read......................................................................63 a History of ALAVES, which has also featured in Terriers. The meeting was in the President’s ‘home patch’ (a tradition Other interest areas adhered to by ACES) of Middlesex and the guest list to the Gloucester Gladiator............................................................................64 formal dinner included a certain Mrs Margaret Thatcher, Suffolk Scribbler.....................................................................................65 Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of National Insurance. One thing’s for sure – the range of work that public sector surveyors are involved in remains expansive and crucial. Business Development, North Business Development, South Wayne Brierley Janet Russell The contents of these articles are not the opinions of the Cover: The Lowry Centre, Salford Quays, venue for ACES Editor nor ACES. Presidential Conference on 17-18 September 2015. 07990 582297 07595 552616 3 THE TERRIER - SPRING 2015 Offices throughout the UK - nps.co.uk ACES PRESIDENTIAL CONFERENCE THE LOWRY CENTRE, SALFORD QUAYS 17-18 September 2015 REGENERATION AND DEVELOPMENT COMMERCIALISATION OF PROPERTY SERVICES ‘ONE PUBLIC ESTATE’ The Lowry Centre epitomises the energy and optimism that has been instrumental in regenerating this redundant industrial dockland into the thriving Salford Quays, which has now grown further into Media City Uk with the arrival of the BBC, ITV and Salford University’s media campus plus many other small companies and residents. The conference will encompass the themes of regeneration and development, commercialisation of public services through companies, trusts and mutuals, and “One Public Estate”, with its pitfalls and practicalities, all set against the backdrop of a new government, possibly a hung parliament and potential devolution to the regions. Excellent CPD opportunity Social programme The event will be open to all ACES members and partners, plus other public and private sector delegates with booking details to be announced soon. Contact: Keith Jewsbury [email protected] 01524 745643 We will be able to meet and mingle with our sponsors and other delegates in the Quays bar, which has panoramic views over the Quays and Media City. The main sessions will be in the Compass Room atop the Lowry Centre for a series of interesting talks and panel discussions. A black tie dinner will give more opportunity for networking and discussion. 4 THE TERRIER - SPRING 2015 ACES National ACES COUNCIL MEETING NOTES, 16 JANUARY 2015 Keith Jewsbury, ACES Secretary 21 members attended the meeting held Conferences with regard to the database ongoing at the Guildhall, London. maintenance and discuss with the Following a detailed report regarding President. Matters considered initially included the London Conference 2014, it was Council to look at member categories agreed that the President meet 3Fox Publications and updating the ACES Rules and International to discuss the outstanding Constitution; also to consider