We are working on the plan to fold back activities at DCST back into the Council-like ALMOs, the pressures continue

Cambridge Investment Partnership moves forward! CIP has acquired, as at 22nd December its first major site, in Mill Road, Cambridge. Hopes from the City Council and Hill investments, CIPs co-owners, go with it!

I am a specialist in major private-public procurements in UK and worldwide but also advise on a range of governance issues with a public/third sector bias.Current projects involve leisure management outsourcing in Leicestershire and an urban regeneration in Derby. I am also involved in negotiating a range of contracts to provide Dialysis services in the West Indies and Middle East -I am a specialist on EU Procurement Law including cases taken to court under Public Contracts Regulations-also I provide advice on Public Governance issues and have conducted several investigations into alleged "misconduct" by Councillors.

We have formed this JV between Bolsover District Council and Woodhead to develop some challenging sites in my home turf of North-East Derbyshire. Looking forward to speaking on it at the Institute of Housing Conference in Manchester at the end of June!

Oadby/Hinckley- finalising project to outsource leisure managementAllerdale Council-Cumbria. Acting on new Public-Private Development LLPActing for Porthcwlis, a subsidiary of the RCT Homes, in a groundbreaking deal to build up to 11,000 new homes across Wales using institutional investment with value of up to £1 billion.The team, led by Stephen Pearson, who created the Procurement process ,negotiated a suite of Framework, Collaboration and Corporate Agreements. Jon Smart finalised Property Docs , which enables district-based Public-Private LLPs to be set up between Housing Providers and the P S PsSP said: “It is the largest housing deal in Wales and is worth almost double the entire £556 million housing budget for 2013/14. We look forward to this project delivering quality housing for the people of Wales”. advised Milton Keynes Council on the “historic” acquisition of £32 million of land and property assets from HCA. Under the terms of an agreement to ‘localise’ the HCA’s roles and responsibilities in MK, the Council has taken over control of planning and responsibility for managing MKs tariff-based infrastructure programme, as well as purchasing land previously held by HCA in M K. over 20 lawyers in contributed to the project, advising the Council on structures, property, planning, contracts, tax and commercial issues.Council Leader Andrew Geary said: “It’s no exaggeration to say that this an historic occasion, not just for the Council but for the whole of Milton Keynes”.We acted on a 5-year project to contract for sophisticated new State of the Art control room installations to be separately implemented for these 2 Authorities under a Joint Procurement. Each Authority will benefit from new systems incorporating a speedy, resilient system with full user systems available in cab. Each operational vehicle will be able to be instantly located via GPS transponders and have access to OS mapping. The Contractor is Systel SA of France.

Major Judicial Review case involving NHS England and regulation of GP Practice-in Manchester High Court

We are achieving a lot-financial governance, a new speed reduction scheme, an improved nature reserve and are now working on a Neighbourhood Plan using new Localism Act powers

I was in charge of PFI/PPP projects in the midlands including 3 NHS LIFT projects and the PFI for Kings Mill Hospital, Mansfield