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- Value for Money
- Asset Management
- General guidance
- Knowledge sharing and support
- Efficiencies from asset management
- Performance indicators
- Property data
- Service transformation
- Collaboration on managing assets
- Asset transfer to communities
- Surplus land
- Quality of built environment
- Schools
- Social housing
- Transport infrastructure
- Health sector
- Police sector
- Fire service sector
- Vehicle fleet management
- Room for improvement
Quality of built environment
World Class Places, published in May 2009, sets out the Government’s strategy to ensure that all government-funded building programmes, including social housing, schools and health centres, will include improved design standards. The strategy emphasises the influence of the built environment on crime, health, community cohesion, equal access to services, prosperity, wildlife and climate change.
Better public building (CABE 2006)
Report argues that good design makes places work better. It offers practical advice for creating new public buildings that provide value for money, sustainability and a source of civic pride. It is supplemented by a The Value Handbook showing the steps that public bodies need to follow to ensure public services benefit from good design.