Finance & Assets

How through working collaboratively to identify solutions and opportunities for innovation, it is possible to address the issues of quality and supply in safe accommodation.

Reflecting on what we have heard at our recent roundtable ‘The Future of LEPs’, we collated our top tips for how to safeguard the voice of the local business community in future arrangements. 

Drawing from our recent experience, we have identified six key factors to ensure efficient, and effective capital programme governance. 

We’ve been exploring how investment funds can promote economic growth and positively impact local communities…

Local government are ideally placed to build their economic future and engage their communities through collaboration. Warwickshire County Council has done just that over a series of recent projects that 31ten have supported on.

We have worked on a number of delivery and partnership arrangements over the last 15 years and have seen a lot of successful arrangements as well as a fair share that have experienced difficulties. So how do you develop arrangements that deliver on what they promise and stand the test of time?

Heartflood’s Chris Gregory talks through our recent support provided to Croydon Council, in supporting the recovery of a range of town and local centres as part of the government and ERDF Reopening High Streets Safely and Welcome Back funding streams.

31ten has been working with a number of Councils to set up such investment funds that make finance available to local businesses to seed economic growth and regeneration.

Our Director, Gary O’Connell, and Consultant, Ivan Brodrick, consider the impact of COVID-19 on the housing market by looking at historic pandemics and economic recessions.

The lifting of the housing revenue account debt cap will only boost housing numbers effectively if councils combine the new flexibility with existing models such as housing companies.