Investment Opportunity

Greater Lincolnshire One Public Estate

Overview

OPE Vision

‘To work as a Greater Lincolnshire Public Sector Partnership to use our Public Estate to drive integrated services and transformation and use surplus public land to deliver on our housing and economic agenda’.

OPE Objectives:

  • Deliver capital receipts
  • Enable job creation
  • Reduced running cost for the public property estate
  • Release surplus public land for housing and regeneration.

OPE is supporting public service objectives including:

  • Health and social care integration
  • Community hubs on a county-wide scale
  • Co-ordinated approaches to using public assets to regenerate town centres
  • Public Service co-locations
  • Enabling solutions for surplus central government property and land.

OPE Workstreams:

  • Housing
  • Improving Public Services
  • Regeneration
  • Health
  • Depots
  • Asset Challenge
  • Blue Light services.

Contact: OnePublicEstate@lincolnshire.gov.uk

Opportunity

Delivery and Value

The Greater Lincolnshire One Public Estate (GLOPE) programme was established in 2016. The programme is supported by the Cabinet Office and Local Government Association. A strong coalition of over 40 public sector partners are working together to maximise the use of the 4,000 public sector assets in Greater Lincolnshire for the delivery of housing and regeneration as well as improving the delivery of public service for the benefit of Greater Lincolnshire.

GLOPE is supported by Chief Executives and Council Leaders and has established a significant enabling role joining up development opportunities of partners for the benefit of a local area.

GLOPE challenges the use of property and has developed a programme of activity across Greater Lincolnshire for consolidation of property and release of land for development. 

Projects Include:

  • A new public sector hub in Scunthorpe which will not only support the regeneration of the town but will also improve the delivery of public services
  • Release of health land for development in Grimsby, allowing development of 200 homes
  • A Blue Light programme across Lincolnshire enabling co-location of services through new developments and release of surplus sites for development
  • Reviewing all public depot facilities and identify co-location opportunities and the release of land for development including housing
  • A new Ambulance, Fire and Rescue and Police Station in Lincoln, enabling a step change in service delivery but also releases surplus assets for regeneration and economic benefit
  • Full Planning permission for the scheme was granted on 2nd October 2017 and construction commenced in January 2018 with completion in Autumn 2019. Surplus sites will be available for development in late 2019.
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