LGPC Insights

By Kane Lennon, Senior Consultant, Local Government Property Consultants (LGPC) (December 2025) Councils have always known that temporary accommodation is expensive. What has changed is the speed and scale at which those costs have risen, and the extent to which they now threaten the wider financial stability of local government. Housing people in crisis is an unavoidable legal duty, but it has become one of the most significant and unpredictable pressures councils face.   Th

The councils that succeed will be those that recognise that reorganisation is not only a question of structures and governance. It is also a physical project. It requires leaders to redraw the shape of their estate, to make choices about where services sit, to identify land that could do more than it does today, and to confront the reality that some buildings belong in the past, not the future. Those that start early, work collaboratively and ground their decisions in evidenc