Empty Commercial

Properties Register Call for Collaborators

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Empty Properties Register Call for collaborators

Summary

As part of the Autumn Budget 2018, the government committed to piloting a

register of empty commercial properties and supporting communities to make

use of empty properties as part of broader plans for the regeneration of their

high streets and town centres. Connected Places Catapult is seeking partners

to develop a bid to MHCLG to develop a pilot empty commercial property

register.

It is our assumption that this will involve an initial discovery phase, followed by

an alpha phase. Although there is some data available about empty

commercial properties, most of this is not open or accessible to the users that

MHCLG wishes to target. It is our aim to be able to trial a register that will

overcome these issues and make use of new technology and software.

Partners Capabilities Sought

Connected Places Catapult has significant experience in understanding the

opportunities for making use of a register that are very relevant to this

proposal but is seeking other partners to complement our capabilities, in

particular a lead partner who has the capability to take the resulting product

to market.

We are seeking partners that have the capability to understand data,

databases and analytics within the planning system and have the

infrastructure to take any Alpha product resulting from the discovery work to

market including the following capabilities –

• Database Management

• Data Analytics

• Data and software architecture

• Software development

• Software sales and marketing

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Empty Properties Register Call for collaborators

Bid Concept

Connected Places Catapult has conducted discovery research and created

speculative prototypes in several projects that look at how spatial data and

spatial data platforms can be used to give insight to different users. The

relevant projects are –

• Small Developer De-risking tool – How might we put the brownfield

register to use to create tools that de-risk planning and development?

• FuturePlan – How might we be able to gather datasets from planning

applications to measure the cumulative impact of development?

• Tombolo - the project has developed a new piece of open-source

software, called the Digital Connector. The Digital Connector is

designed to interconnect datasets and urban models, enabling urban

specialists to create models from a wide range of data sources. T

• GrowthPlanner – the working prototype uses data from utilities assets

to spatially map their capacity and model that into the future using

planning data.

We would like to find a partner with whom we can share our learning. We

would propose taking a leading role in any Discovery phase of the process,

drawing on our digital planning and city data knowledge. We would then

expect the selected partner take a leading role in the Alpha phase as the

concept moved closer to being a market-ready pilot

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Empty Properties Register Call for collaborators

Registering Your Interest

Connected Places Catapult are currently seeking to partner with organisations

that are interested in the Bid concept, have the capabilities outlined above

and are interested in joining a consortium with the Connected Places

Catapult.

Connected Places Catapult are undertaking a formal process of selection for

interested organisations. All organisations interested in joining the consortia

are requested to register their interest by emailing Nathan Whittaker at

nathan.whittaker@cp.catapult.org.uk with the following:

• Two examples of recent, previous work which demonstrates the

organisation’s capability in providing the services required within this

project. Including explanation of the work carried out and the outcome

and achievements of the project (Maximum ½ page per example)

• An explanation of your understanding of and contribution to the bid

concept (Maximum ½ page)

Submission of the above information will be considered an expression of your

organisation’s interest to join the consortia. All registrations of interest must

be submitted by email by July 4th, 2019. The submissions will be reviewed by

Connected Places Catapult based on experience, capability and suitability and

you will receive a response on the outcome of your submission by no later

than July 10th 2019.

Any queries about the bid concept should be addressed to

nissa.shahid@cp.catapult.org.uk

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Empty Properties Register Call for collaborators

London

1 Sekforde Street

Clerkenwell

London

EC1R 0BE