In the summer of 2019, Ian McGuinness led a major study to examine the scale of potential development land tied up across England's car parks. The research, undertaken by Knight Frank on behalf of the UK Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), is the first to consider the development potential for tens of thousands of sites held across multiple parts of the UK government simultaneously. While the research was undertaken directly for MHCLG, it had a wider steering and oversight panel composed of a number of government agencies and stakeholders. The research also combined open source material with topographic and cadastral data from Ordnance Survey and the Land Registry, two agencies now represented on the British Government's Geospatial Commission. Against the backdrop of the Commission's drive to prove real economic value from geospatial data, this one investigation placed potential dividends for the public sector at three times the Government's estimates for the entire property industry. The research showed that by selecting just 15% of public sector owned car parks best situated for housing, Government could deliver more than 110,000 new homes, raising £6 billion in land receipts for HM Treasury in the process. In his presentation, McGuinness explains the key role geospatial analysis played in driving the investigation and how the research has shed new light on the opportunity for the public and private sectors to work together at scale and at pace to deliver housing.
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