Case studies

Gateshead Council – using local assets to back regeneration and housing development Innovation topic: Local authority led Innovation topic: Local authority led partnership to develop new mixed-tenure homes

This is the fourth case study from the report by the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA), supported by the LGA, which sets out examples of local authority innovation in initiatives currently being undertaken across the country, covering both urban and rural areas and working in the face of a range of housing challenges.

Ashford Borough Council, Chilmington Green – establishing a community management organisation Innovation topic: Long-term community stewardship of large-scale new development

West Sussex County Council has invested in a ‘communities’ function that cuts across all service areas in order to engage more fully with its communities.

Faced with very poor oral health in young children and significant inequalities throughout the district, Bradford Metropolitan District Council has prioritised the oral health of young children, including it in its Health and Wellbeing Strategy and Inequalities Action Plan.

Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council's Housing Operations Transformation Programme aimed to deliver a restructure and re-modelling of the Housing Operations Service across five of the six services withing the department.

This case study looks at how the council worked in partnership to build an anaerobic digestion plant.

Tameside has adopted a ‘thin layer model’ approach which sews together digital infrastructure assets across the city, more rapidly deploying fibre than via traditional methods.

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council's communications team reviewed existing data across different council departments to grow its subscriber base to over 75,000 residents.

Developing a suite of 16 pre-approved house types that can be used on any site.