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Bournemouth Christchurch Poole Council Boosts Social Housing Development with ProVal LS

The Council enhances its social housing delivery by adopting ProVal LS, ensuring efficient resource use, improved stakeholder visibility, and streamlined appraisals. The council leverages the software to address the complexities of multi-tenure developments and rising build costs, with support from SDS enabling seamless implementation and success across development teams.

CATEGORY: ProVal

NUMBER OF USERS: 6

CHALLENGE

Bournemouth Christchurch Poole Council is committed to the delivery of social housing solutions whilst ensuring that resources are used efficiently and effectively

RESULT

Our development team uses ProVal heavily, and due to the success we have enjoyed, we plan on extending its use to include our finance team who will also benefit greatly by modelling how any strategic changes could affect each scheme. 

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Our favourite aspect of ProVal LS is that standard house types for each tenure can be set up as defaults, which enables us to drag and drop this information into an appraisal, making appraisals so much quicker.

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REQUEST

The need for a fast response to change and challenges along the way 

Continued budget pressures dictate the need to evolve the current development process, improving visibility for stakeholders, managing risk and improving efficiency. 

The council’s strategic focus is to create multi tenure developments for diverse communities, this increases the complexity and higher density developments on each site. 

SOLUTION

Getting to grips with the software

We were immediately impressed with the speed at which we could appraise schemes. Getting to grips with the software came easily with use. The familiarity of the software also comes easy with use. As a local authority, the KPI focus is the cumulative cash flow remaining positive from year 1. 

Initially, we had concerns over how long it would take for new team members to get used to ProVal LS. This depends on whether they have used ProVal XL previously, but new staff members can get up to speed swiftly with the training SDS offers, possibly only requiring checking of the appraisal by senior staff.  

Although we have had some technical difficulties, they were easily resolved using SDS support. Their experienced quick and accurate responses resolved our issues and gave good advice in appraisals. The annual support inspires confidence with efficient, friendly help just a phone call or email away. 

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THE RESULTS

Key Benefits of ProVal in BCP Council

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Continuity in the systems used

We have now rolled out ProVal LS to our affordable and commercial development teams. This will assist the teams working together and in providing support to each other when required.

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Faster processes

Since we got ProVal LS everything is so much easier, and the process appears to run faster!

 

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The key to project approval

ProVal LS is the core of our internal systems for scheme approval at whatever development stage a scheme is at.

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