Boris Johnson plans to create a Thames Gateway Strategic Partnership as one of a raft of new bodies set to be responsible for regeneration and public assets in London.
Speaking today at Property Week’s Thames Gateway Forum conference in Canary Wharf, the London mayor said that a new partnership of leaders …

The government will extend its ban on new government leases until 2015 to try to save more than £250m in rent and running costs.
The Cabinet Office’s Efficiency and Reform Group is expected to announce the National Property Controls freeze in the comprehensive spending review on 20 October.
The ban was introduced …

My text for this blog is, unusually, rooted in an article I read recently in another publication.
This article suggested that a review being undertaken by Buying Solutions, of work being carried out by the eight firms on the Estates Framework Agreement, was with a view to establishing who would be …

Chancellor George Osborne plans to hold an emergency budget on 22 June, and will give more detail on his £6bn cuts plan next Monday.
Osborne said the “emergency Budget” would happen 42 days after the signing of the coalition agreement, in which the Liberal Democrats agreed to back the Conservatives’ “deep …

The Conservative party’s plan to cut “deep and fast” on public spending in the next financial year has been given the green light by the new Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition government
David Cameron, who begins his first day as Prime Minister this morning after Gordon Brown’s departure yesterday, has negotiated efficiencies on …

Government departments have hinted at how property will contribute to £11bn of efficiency savings announced in yesterday’s Budget.
Property-related plans released by departments following Chancellor Alistair Darling’s speech yesterday include:

the Ministry of Justice saving £41m a year by 2015 through reducing the number of court buildings in London from 18 …

Birmingham council is to spend £40m on four new buildings at Birmingham Science Park in Aston (pictured).
The 117,272 sq ft development will form the first part of a new Innovation Village, which will focus on IT research and development, under plans launched at the MIPIM conference in Cannes today.
The …

Vice Admiral Tim Laurence has launched an Office of Government Commerce campaign to improve property asset management across the public sector.
Today, the OGC has announced that it wants to identify skills gaps and improve the skills of public sector property managers. This is so it can meet …

Accrington’s Market Hall is a listed building that used to suffer from underinvestment, leading to a backlog of repairs and wasted floor space. The benefits of it being publicly owned were in doubt. But in 2009, owners Hyndburn Council won funding to redevelop the marketplace. The cash came from the …

I first found out last December that I was going to be putting together a website for people working in public sector property. There’s been a lot of work done in the two months since – not all by me, by the way – and it’s great that you’re finally …