This week, 1,300 professionals in the public and private sector gathered to talk about sweating publicly owned assets and financing regeneration.
They were attending the inaugural Public Property Summit in London on 1 and 2 November.
To see photos from the event and get a flavour of the atmosphere, take a look …

England’s regional development agencies have lost 424  staff in total since the general election in May, Public Property UK can reveal.
The bodies, which are due to be abolished by April 2012 and employ around 2,500 staff, have recently finished a first wave of voluntary redundancies and are set to cut …

There are more absentees in the public sector than the private sector and stress is the most common cause of absence, a report has found.
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s Absence Survey, which is published today, shows 35% of employers across all sectors have reported that stress-related absence has …

Birmingham City Council is set lose 79 full-time posts as it merges its planning and regeneration departments into a single team.
Its plan will mean cutting the team by one third, and setting up smaller planning and regeneration teams based in different areas across the city. It means all staff in …

Trudi Elliot has been appointed as chief executive of the Royal Town Planning Institute.
Elliot joins the RTPI from the now-abolished Government Office for the West Midlands, where she has been director since 2006. She will take up the position from 4 January 2011.
Elliot said: “These are challenging times for …

John Richards has been appointed as the non-executive chairman of the Torbay Development Agency.
Richards is the former chief executive of Hammerson and is currently president of the British Property Federation.
Richards said: “My roots are here in the West Country, and this is the perfect chance for me to ‘put something …

Morale among public sector workers has hit an all-time low ahead of Wednesday’s Comprehensive Spending Review, according to a survey by recruitment consultancy Badenoch & Clark
The survey of 1,000 public sector workers found that 25% are fearful of losing their jobs, while one in five have no idea what cuts …

Mary Harpley has been appointed as chief executive of the London Borough of Hounslow.
Harpley, who is currently chief executive of Cherwell District Council, replaces interim chief executive Michael Frater.
Prior to joining Cherwell, Mary was a director of regional development agency Advantage West Midlands and before that, a senior consultant with …

Stephen Hollowood, executive director and head of public sector at GVA Grimley, looks at which parts of the UK will be hit hardest by next Wednesday’s comprehensive spending review:
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The much-anticipated comprehensive spending review will announce funding cuts across all parts of the public sector, although more so for some …

North West Development Agency chief executive Steven Broomhead is to step down from his post.
Broomhead, who was appointed in 2003 to the regional development agency (RDA), said today that he would take early retirement. He is the latest in a string of high profile staff members to leave RDAs, which …