{"id":2279,"date":"2011-01-14T18:08:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T18:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2011-01-14T18:08:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T18:08:48","slug":"birmingham-city-to-run-regen-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=2279","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham City to run regen company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Birmingham City Council is set to establish a private company to deliver its regeneration services in the city.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\nA meeting of the council\u2019s cabinet will consider a report outlining proposals for the spin-off firm. Initially, the holding company will deliver construction and property services, including urban design, including facilities management plus building control, incorporating building consultancy.<br \/>\nThe report before councillors said: &#8220;The basic concept is for BCC to provide the wholly owned company with the authority and autonomy to operate in a more commercial manner, whilst still retaining the core public sector service ethos.&#8221; The plan would allow the council to sell its services to third party bodies including charities in the city. Rules prevent councils from directly operating on a commercial basis.<\/p>\n<p>Randall Brew, the council\u2019s cabinet member for finance, said: &#8220;The plan would contribute to the financial challenges the council faces by reducing overheads, bringing into play the benefits of economies of scale and generally being a more efficient way of doing things. Longer-term, it would also be offering us the foundations of a lucrative income stream by expanding our customer base.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If the plan is approved, the council will set up a wholly-owned holding company with a series of &#8220;special purpose vehicles&#8221; to operate individual services. However, the report forecasts job losses, saying that &#8220;reducing, reshaping and re-skilling the staff complement prior to formal transfer into the wholly owned company is essential for success&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Guardian Article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardianpublic.co.uk\/council-owned-companies \" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regeneration Net Article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regen.net\/news\/ByDiscipline\/Economic-Development\/1048594\/Birmingham-Council-set-firm-run-regeneration-services\/ \" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham City Council is set to establish a private company to deliver its regeneration services in the city. A meeting of the council\u2019s cabinet will consider a report outlining proposals for the spin-off firm. Initially, the holding company will deliver &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=2279\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2280,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions\/2280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}