To consider a report of the Executive Member for Housing and Regeneration.

That the Corporate Operational Estate Strategy be adopted by the Council.

The Executive Member for Housing and Regeneration submitted a report presenting for consideration and adoption the Corporate Operational Estate Strategy, which set out a strategic purpose to the management of the Council’s buildings from which public sector services are delivered, forming the operational estate. The strategy set out a vision, key principles and core objectives that will result in the improved strategic management of the buildings needed to deliver public sector services. In discussion, the distinction was noted between the operational estate and the Council’s wider property holdings; and it was agreed that a further response would be made outside the meeting to a Member’s query on the scale of the impact of efficiencies on the Council’s wider estate. It was also noted that the measures proposed would have an impact on broader carbon emissions targets.

RESOLVED - That the Corporate Operational Estate Strategy be adopted by the Council.