You can read the full report here: t.co/1yuez4ALYG

Thanks to isio and @localpartnerships.bsky.social for their support on this report!

The report calls for:

🏛️Reclassifying social housing as national infrastructure

🌱Strategic alignment through Local Growth Plans

💰Enhanced guidance and support for LGPS investment

📈Optimizing the LGPS pooling process

🏠Central oversight by Homes England

The report highlights the government's ongoing reforms to the LGPS, including the push for "megafund" pools, to enhance investment in UK growth-related assets, and also notes the substantial aggregate surplus currently held by LGPS funds in England and Wales.⬇️

3️⃣ Private Sector Should
- Practice meaningful community consultation over the direction of projects and funding.
- Prioritise local job creation
- Work with a local supply chain to ensure the retention of economic benefits.

You can read the whole report here: localis.org.uk/wp-content/u...

2️⃣ Local Government Should
- Provide robust data and measurement mechanisms
- Target quantifiable benefits to local communities.
- Develop financial instruments such as Community Municipal Investments and Green Bonds
- Embed Green Public Procurement in their procurement of energy services

1️⃣ Central Government Should
- Provide local authorities with support in procurement and contracting
- Provide capacity support for planning applications
- Produce a contracting framework for local authorities looking to procure long-term public-private partnerships.

Enabling the Local Power Plan 💡
- Formalise local area energy planning
- Consolidate funding streams for clean energy projects in local areas
- Build community capacity
- Establish regional energy data centres
- Streamline the application process for grid connection
- Invest in skills programmes

With detail on the Local Power Plan as yet unclear, this report looks at how the plan can best build on best practice and overcome local barriers to drive decarbonisation

You can read the full report here: www.localis.org.uk/wp-content/u...

And watch the webinar here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAaG...