LGA publishes its plan for 2020

According to the Local Government Authority (LGA) and their yearly plan for 2020, there will be new focus upon infrastructure spending, complying with the ‘Building a Safer Future’ report, and also the changes which will take place in the world of procurement.

Going into further detail on this, the yearly plan which the LGA has published, when discussing topics that relate to construction, initially refers to infrastructure and how spending will be focused upon the Highways Spend, scheduling in a meeting with the Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) to discuss issues in this area and how contractors can provide more social value.

Furthermore, the LGA also placed a great deal of emphasis upon the need for meetings and consultations so that they may implement new recommendations and standards in line with what has been recommended by Dame Judith Hackitt in her report, ‘Building a Safer Future’.

The LGA is now consulting with construction professionals and local councils to decide how best to impose the aforementioned recommendations as well as how to now approach the procurement of in-scope buildings with help from the Procurement Working Group which is chaired by Duncan Brock from CIPS Global Standards.

And finally, the LGA is also going to take a view of the changing role of a procurement professional in the post-election, and possible post-Brexit, Britain at the Construction Conference at Smith Square Conference Centre in London in February.

The conference will be the seventh national construction conference and will feature panels and workshops concerning the increased contribution of the sector in shaping and delivering quality assured services as well as the increased confidence that local government provides as part of the right conversations and taking real action to capture and disseminate lessons learned to the sector.

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