We help councils accelerate housing development to meet their regeneration and housing growth objectives.
Our work includes practical procurement and delivery expertise to bridge relationship gaps with developers, and maximise the commercial opportunities available to the public sector. We bring public and private sector experience that helps provide confidence, capacity and capability to councils and combined authorities who have housing supply and regeneration ambitions.
We work closely with the Homes England and MHCLG. We directly support a number of councils to develop and deliver their housing growth plans. Our team operates as a seamless part of the council’s local team, supplementing skills or capacity gaps to manage and deliver end-to-end estates’ renewal programmes.
In 2019 – 20 we helped our clients achieve :

Housing delivery and strategy
We directly supported over 30 councils and combined authorities, helping them realise their housing delivery ambitions. Having previously coordinated a successful £6m bid to the Housing Infrastructure Fund, we supported Wirral Council to sign funding agreements and thus commence work at Wirral Waters, the largest regeneration project in the country. This will deliver 13,500 new homes on the left bank of the Mersey.
We conducted a review of the programme for the development of the Athletes’ Village at Perry Barr for the 2022 Commonwealth Games for Birmingham City Council. This £500m development aims to deliver 1,400 new homes after the Games.
We reviewed West Yorkshire Combined Authority’s opportunities for a pipeline of sites that will meet the future housing needs of the area. This informed the recently announced devolution deal, which includes £3.2m of funding from central government to support housing development.
We supported Salford Council with the preparation of a business case for redevelopment of Swinton town centre, including a refurbished town hall with new office wings and 428 new homes on council land. We advised several councils (including Coventry, Vale of Glamorgan, and Wirral) on options for delivery of their housing growth objectives in the future. We supported various cross-boundary council partnerships (including Greater Exeter, Lincolnshire, and North Northamptonshire) in the development and alignment of their proposals for housing growth, across local authority boundaries. In total the authorities with which we worked have an annual growth target of over 10,000 houses.
We supported the Welsh Government through research on the private rented sector, to support legislation banning most lettings agents’ fees in the sector. The legislation came into effect on 1 September 2019.

Growth
Under the Future Place Programme, and alongside the Royal Institute of British Architects, the LGA, the Royal Town Planning Institute, the Chartered Institute of Housing and Homes England, we worked with five Greater Exeter local authorities, the North Northamptonshire Joint Planning team (covering five local authorities) and Great Yarmouth, Gateshead and Barnsley councils on a range of place-based issues ranging from viability to governance. The work in Greater Exeter is continuing with the development of a delivery model and a bid to MHCLG as part of its Locally Led Development Corporation competition.
For more information about what we have helped our clients achieve, see our 2019-20 impact report.
TESTIMONIALS
Local Partnerships’ work at Wirral has harnessed local knowledge and created a much sharper, focused approach, which is commercially aware and which will result in more homes delivered over the next five years
Eric Robinson, Chief Executive, Wirral Council
I have found Local Partnerships supportive and knowledgeable, particularly on the technical and financial aspects of our street lighting PFI – enabling us to make informed decisions and ensuring that we haven’t wasted effort in these areas on what is a challenging and complex contract change.
Peter Woodward, Capital Programmes and Property, Manchester City Council
RESOURCES
- Our Impact 2019-20
- LOCAL AUTHORITY BRIEFING: Housing people who were rough sleeping and those at risk who have been accommodated due to COVID-19
- Our Impact 2018-19To celebrate our tenth birthday we have launched our 2018-19 impact report, celebrating the successes we have achieved over the…
- Our Impact 2017-18In 2018 we produced our first impact report and we made a commitment to produce one every year. Our impact…
- Increasing housing supplyLocal Partnerships provides a practical and objective approach to increasing housing supply: we can help you unlock the potential in…
- CASE STUDY: Identifying and delivering efficiencies in Waste, The Lichfield & Tamworth Waste PartnershipIdentifying and delivering efficiencies in waste for The Lichfield & Tamworth Waste Partnership (Shared services).
- CASE STUDY: Identifying and delivering efficiencies in Waste, Hertfordshire Waste PartnershipIdentifying and delivering efficiencies in waste for the Hertfordshire Waste Partnership, "Consortia for Recycling Materials"
- CASE STUDY: Identifying and delivering efficiencies in Waste, The Kent Waste PartnershipIdentifying and delivering efficiencies in waste for the The Kent Waste Partnership, "‘East Kent Joint Waste Project"
- REPORT: Delivering waste efficiencies in the West MidlandsRegional review undertaken by Local Partnerships focusing on efficiencies achieved in waste management in the West Midlands.
- REPORT: Delivering waste efficiencies in the LondonRegional review undertaken by Local Partnerships focusing on efficiencies achieved in waste management in London.
- REPORT: Delivering waste efficiencies in the East of EnglandRegional review undertaken by Local Partnerships focusing on efficiencies achieved in waste management in the East of England.
- REPORT: Delivering waste efficiencies in Yorkshire and the HumberRegional review undertaken by Local Partnerships focusing on efficiencies achieved in waste management in Yorkshire and the Humber.
- REPORT: Delivering waste efficiencies in the North EastRegional review undertaken by Local Partnerships focusing on efficiencies achieved in waste management in the North East.
- REPORT: Delivering waste efficiencies in the North WestRegional review undertaken by Local Partnerships focusing on efficiencies achieved in waste management in the North West.
- REPORT: Delivering waste efficiencies in the East MidlandsRegional review undertaken by Local Partnerships focusing on efficiencies achieved in waste management in the East Midlands.
- Local Energy Options – A Guidance Document for Local GovernmentAcross Britain, councils are taking action to boost renewable generation, improve energy security, lower energy bills and support community economies…
- Delivering Waste Efficiencies in the South EastThe eighth regional review undertaken by Local Partnerships. The report focuses on efficiencies achieved in waste and resource management by…
Main Contact
Martin Walker
Programme Director – Housing
Mobile: 07879 443 410
Email: martin.walker@localpartnerships.gov.uk
OTHER AREAS OF OUR WORK
HOUSING
INFRASTRUCTURE
CLIMATE
RESPONSE
COMMERCIALISATION AND REORGANISATION
ENERGY
RE:FIT
ASSURANCE
HEALTH AND
SOCIAL CARE
PPP, PFI
AND MIM
WASTE

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