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Aligning and Maximising Income in Your LGR Business Case
Aligning income streams is a vital part of your LGR business case, ensuring the overall financial model is sound and maximising the income potential of the combined councils.
This can be a ‘messy’ process due to different fees and charges schedules and policies, different commercial assets, some of which maybe competing with each other and uncertainty over the impact of the markets in which you operate in.
We are specialist at local government income assessment and generation and have tried and tested processes to assess, align and model income streams from joining councils, taking the pressure off this vital part of the LGR business case.
We are experienced at working directly for a council or with another consultancy partner that is looking at the whole project to give expert and specialist advice and modelling.
We have reviewed fees and charges with 25 councils over the last three years, identifying and implementing an average increase in income of £1.1m / 150,000 population served by the council.
Our tools and approach will not just create a model for the business case, but will identify how to also maximise income across the councils that are joining.
We have a number of different packages and tools to support your LGR business case:
Benchmarking portal
a low cost subscription to a fees and charges benchmarking tool that enables you to benchmark your fees against every other council in England.
Hot spots review
Desk based review of the key fees and charges income areas across the merging councils to identify the scale of the opportunity to maximise income
Full review
Detailed review engaging with service managers and any consultants creating the new operating model to identify and model aligned fees and charges, how to increase income generated beyond the sum of the parts and what a
new fees and charges policy would need to be to realise the income possibilities.
Commercial audit
Reviewing commercial activity and assets across all merging councils together with any commercial governance to identify the joint potential of the combined councils and how to realise it.