One Public Estate

Liverpool City Region

Ged Fitzgerald, Chief Executive, Liverpool City Council

Strategic approach to asset management

Early engagement on planned disposals

Making the best use of public sector assets

Unprecedented financial pressures being faced by public sector

Drive economic growth

Generate capital receipts

Drive public service transformation

Unlock efficiency savings

• 1994 - European Funding Programme

• Combined Authority established in April 2014

• Awarded £232million Growth Deal funding - one of the most successful

awards in the country.

• 2 City Region Devolution Deals

November 2015

March 2016

A long history of collaboration

Liverpool City Region OPE Model

LCR CA

LCR CEX Group

Service & Assets Executive

Board

One Public Estate Board

Combined Authority Work Streams(Economic Development, Housing & Spatial Planning, Public Service Reform, Health & Social Care)

Land Commission

LCR Local Enterprise

Partnership

Government

Departments

£430k OPE funding secured to 2016

• OPE 3

Knowledge Quarter Phase 1 (Paddington Village)

• OPE 4

St. Helens Town Centre Regeneration

Kirkby Town Centre Regeneration

OPE Projects funded to date

Sensor City

New Royal Liverpool Hospital

Materials Innovation Factory

Liverpool Science Park

Life Sciences Accelerator Bio-Innovation Hub

Clatterbridge Cancer Centre

Masterplan

Knowledge Quarter Liverpool – Paddington Village

• £1bn flagship expansion site sitting at the eastern gateway to the city centre.

• Being developed as 1.8m sq ft of science, technology, education and health space.

• OPE funded masterplan now developed into a Strategic Regeneration Framework

• £3.5m capital receipts (local government

land 2017-2024)

• 2,000 jobs (170 already confirmed)

• 785 homes

• 90,000 sq.ft. of space for ground floor

retail and hospitality space

• 30 storey landmark building

• 700+ new car park spaces

• 3.4 ha of quality public realm

Confirmed:

• The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) –

Northern Centre of Excellence

• Liverpool International College - 45,000

sq ft of education and learning facilities

and 262 residential bed spaces

4 Projects awarded funding through OPE 5:

• Aintree University Hospital – creation of a new health and wellbeing

campus.

• LCC One Stop Shop & DWP Job Centre Plus co-location – Liverpool city

centre.

• Runcorn – mixed use regeneration of the Halton Lea area utilising surplus

HM Courts estate and linked to the Healthy New Towns programme.

• Widnes – masterplan for redevelopment of a central site in Widnes which

incorporates former police station & magistrates court.

LCR OPE Programme - 2017/18

• The right geographical footprint

• Not just between partners locally but with Whitehall Departments

• To provide better services and improve outcomes for local people

OPE - an opportunity for real collaboration