Our property assets

Property assets

Property assets are vital to how we deliver services. We aim to align our land and building assets with our corporate goals and investment strategy.

Strategies

To do this we have agreed a corporate property strategy and an easy guide to the corporate property strategy to help you understand it.

Significant strategic updates to the property strategy include an introduction to corporate landlord and a strategic asset management approach.

Projects

The asset management project seeks to deliver improvements in our estate by reviewing the use and reducing the number of our property assets, then reducing associated maintenance costs, energy usage and carbon emissions.

It is intended to improve community access to essential services and identify opportunities for shared services with partners,  This will increasing collaboration and efficiency by maximising the use of existing buildings. There will also be opportunities to create affordable housing on current sites or to transfer assets to communities.

A property asset rationalisation approach was agreed by the Redesign Board in 2021.

Links to the council budget process

The latest Council Budget has set themes, those relating to asset management can been seen in Looking at our Asset Base and in the full Highland Council delivery plan 2024-27.

Governance

Property Asset Management strategies and projects are subject to governance by the Redesign Board , Housing and Property Committee and the Highland Council.