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Council-owned community assets in Camden
Jeff Hopwood, Community Assets Strategy LeadCamden Council
Community centres
Day centres
TRA halls
Children’s centres
Nurseries
Play centres
Voluntary sector
What do we know about what we’ve got?
Commercial / shops
Parks
Libraries
Leisure centres
Schools
The Problems
• 200+ premises• Variety of occupation arrangements• Need for capital receipts • Need for corporate approach• Need to better understand social value• Desire to empower VCS and continue their
independence
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Our approach
• Rent relief – pragmatic application• Work with VCS to develop a new lease• Community Investment Programme• Assessing social value
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Rent relief
• For VCOs occupying LBC premises• If client base is:
– >90% Camden residents = 100% rent relief– 50-90% Camden residents = 50% rent relief– <50% Camden residents = no rent relief
• Awarded from 1st January 2012 to 31st March 2015
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The new VCS lease
• 20 year lease, outside L&T Act• Market rent less 35% - rent relief awarded separately• 3 year’s notice break option where:
1. LBC intends to redevelopment
2. Landlord’s repairing liabilities become excessive
• LBC will use all reasonable endeavours to re-provide suitable alternative accommodation
• Clarifies responsibilities – on both sides• No need for guarantor or surety• Letter of comfort – pledge to support external funding bids
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Community Investment Programme
• 15 year plan to invest money in schools, homes and community facilities.
• £403m capital funding gap – lost over £200m of capital funding from government
• Redeveloping or selling buildings or land that are underused or expensive to maintain
• Objective is to raise £300m to:– Deliver 2750 new homes– Invest £178m in 13,000 existing homes– Invest £117m in 58 schools and children’s centres– Provide 9,000m2 of improved community facilities & space
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Social value assessment modelQuadrant 3 Low LBC cost / low impact
Quadrant 4 Low LBC cost / high impact
Quadrant 1 High LBC cost / low impact
Quadrant 2 High LBC cost / high impact
100%Ext’l £ 50% 100%LBC £
Low impact Camden Plan High impact
Investment
This model correlates the perceived value of the benefits of services / activities provided from the premises against the cost of the premises to the council.
The objective is that premises fall into Quadrant 4 – the greatest impact at the lowest cost.
This can also be applied to 3rd party community premises, enabling a comparison with LBC premises in a neighbourhood.
Links and contact
• VCS investment & support programme and rent relief – www.camden.gov.uk/vcs
• VCS lease - http://democracy.camden.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=122&MId=4049 item 9, section 5 & appendix 13
• Community Investment Programme – www.camden.gov.uk/cip
• Camden Plan – www.camden.gov.uk/camdenplan • Contact - [email protected]
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