Our Work
LGPC is instructed on strategic site reviews, options appraisals, disposal strategies, acquisition programmes and asset reviews for local authorities preparing to release, consolidate or reshape their estates. We support multi-academy trusts through surplus school site disposals under the Academies Act and Secretary of State consent. We advise on partnership structures with registered providers where councils are pursuing affordable housing delivery on their own land. We also work with councils preparing for Local Government Reorganisation, where the inherited estate is a central practical question beneath the governance debate.
Instructions are typically structured as fixed-fee project work or as retainer arrangements over an agreed number of consultancy days per month, with scope and deliverables set out in writing before work begins.
Advising councils, trusts and registered providers on the property decisions that shape public services.
WHO WE ARE
LGPC — Local Government Property Consultants — is an independent advisory practice working exclusively with the public sector. Our work sits at the point where service strategy, capital planning and the realities of local government governance meet: where a decision to retain, repurpose or release a building has to hold up against audit, scrutiny and member challenge as well as commercial logic.
The practice is independent. We act only for public sector clients on public sector instructions, and our advice is structured around the frameworks under which councils, trusts and registered providers operate — the duty of best consideration under Section 123 of the Local Government Act 1972, the General Disposal Consent (England) 2003, the Best Value Duty, and the Green Book methodology that governs how options and business cases are tested.
How We Work
The independence of our advice rests on a clear separation: LGPC does not act for developers, housebuilders or investors on the matters we advise public bodies on. That separation is held between LGPC and our sister practice, Prime Plots, which handles private-sector residential land work. Both practices share a parent company and a director, and otherwise operate as distinct businesses with different client bases.
Beyond independence, what councils tend to value is the audit trail. Property decisions made by local authorities are tested in ways private transactions are not — through audit, scrutiny, FOI, and ultimately member sign-off. Our reports are produced with that in mind: structured around recognised frameworks (Strategic, Outline and Full Business Case where relevant), evidenced rather than asserted, and written in language that travels comfortably into officer reports and cabinet papers.
Where a formal Red Book valuation is required, we instruct one. Where strategic advice is appropriate, we deliver it with the disclaimers and limitations clearly stated. The distinction is held throughout each engagement.
Previous Work
At Northolt High School in the London Borough of Ealing, LGPC identified 1.7 hectares of surplus land within the school site and structured a partnership with Network Homes that delivered 149 affordable homes alongside the school. The work involved sustained engagement with the Department for Education and with the school itself.
At de Stafford School, a £1.2m Green Belt disposal was completed under the Academies Act, with Secretary of State consent obtained. The site presented planning and consent constraints that required careful sequencing between the trust, the local planning authority and central government.
At Fearnhill School in Hertfordshire, surplus land was released via informal tender, working within Green Belt planning constraints and within the governance framework of the maintained school estate.
Across these instructions, the constant has been the public-purpose context: each disposal had to deliver capital or housing outcomes that could be evidenced and defended, not just transacted.
Leadership
LGPC is led by Kane Lennon, who has advised on land and residential development matters for more than 25 years.
He spent nine years as Head of Residential Development Sales at Savills, where he led on large-scale forward funding, bulk affordable housing transactions and public sector instructions, before joining Putterills as Land Director and subsequently founding the practice. He is currently completing the RICS Senior Professional Route to MRICS Chartered Membership (Planning and Development Pathway), with final assessment in 2026.
Practice Information
LGPC (Local Government Property Consultants) is the public sector consultancy practice of Prime Plots Group Limited, an English company registered at Companies House (No. 10345574). Our sister practice, Prime Plots, operates in the private residential land sector at primeplots.co.uk.
The practice is based in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, and advises public sector clients across Greater London, the South East, the East of England, the South West, the East Midlands and the West Midlands where the instruction matches our specialism. Our geographic coverage reflects the nature of public sector estate work: strategic asset reviews, surplus land disposals, housing delivery, education estate advice and Local Government Reorganisation-related estate planning.
LGPC operates in line with RICS Professional Standards (including the Red Book where relevant), the Property Ombudsman Commercial Code, and the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 where agency work falls within scope. The practice maintains professional indemnity cover of £5 million, alongside public liability and employer's liability cover, in line with the standards expected of public sector advisory work. The practice operates under the Procurement Act 2023 and its 2025 Regulations, and is set up to support appointment by direct award, quotation, competitive tender or framework call-off. LGPC is registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ZB303990) and is on the Cabinet Office Procurement Data Portal (PPON: PNXG-1995-BPNJ).
Recognition
LGPC forms part of the consultancy team named Consultancy of the Year at the Hertfordshire Residential Development Awards 2025.
Contact
Kane Lennon, LGPC
The Crocodile House, 9 Bridge Street, Hitchin, Hertfordshire SG5 2DE
01462 877778