BUILDING TALK - APRIL 2024

How councils can

utilise unused office space

With councils currently coming under financial strain and cutting services, solutions that can be offered to help them save money and cost efficiently deliver their essential services are welcome.

building talk

april 2024

How councils can utilise unused office space


Our Director Saghir Hussain shares some valuable insights in this article in The Building Talk.

In this article Saghir addresses the financial challenges faced by UK councils and suggests solutions to help them save money and deliver essential services efficiently. He discusses the benefits of remote working, hotdesking solutions, and a tiered approach to office space design.

Saghir also highlights the importance of integrating amenities supporting small, co-loc council with tenants costiveness.

Overall the advocates redesign council to collaboration economic, community.



Building Talk - April 2024

With councils currently coming under financial strain and cutting services, solutions that can be offered to help them save money and cost efficiently deliver their essential services are welcome, writes Saghir Hussain, CEO of Create it Studio Architects, in this guest article…

According to Inside Government, 41% of public sector workers are now working remotely and further evidence from ONES suggests that on average 40% of desks are vacant.

Many councils up and down the country have been forced to cut services as the current financial uncertainties in the UK continue, leaving councillors in the difficult position of deciding what their jurisdictions can do without.

Warrington Council is a recent example of a council making strategic cuts without negatively affecting its people by managing to save £750k from a bill of £23 million. They did this by moving offices.

Saghir Hussain

Managing Director

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