2025

COM0036 - Income Generation from Sponsorship & Advertising

This local authority is currently running the sponsorship & advertising project under the commercialisation workstream. They are seeking to hear from other local authroties who have already delivered or are devloping the same project, on the following points:

- Did the project prove worthwhile in generating additional revenue and if any obstacles have been faced in the delivery of the project?

- Did you develop the project category wise e.g. Roundabout, Fleet, Flower Beds, bus etc.?

- How are you charging?

- Did you develop a webpage? How successful is this?

- Are you giving contracts to external business providers? If so, who do you recommend?

- Any example of busines cases in relation to this?

Answering any of these that are applicable would be greatly appreciated.

COM0035 - Income generation from tourism hotspots - 280225

COM0034 - Repurposing residential garage sites – 030125

A member authority is looking at the possibility of repurposing residential garage sites for alternative commercial use to generate income for the General Fund.

They would like to hear from any other authorities who have repurposed garage sites or similar parcels of land for a similar purpose/commercial alternative use.

For example:

• Energy schemes such as battery storage
• EVCP
• Domestic Storage
• Redevelopment to provide commercial property

What were/are these alternative uses? What are the commercial arrangements and what levels of income are you generating?