Government Property Strategy 2025 is the headline event of Government Property month 2025 and is an official event from Cabinet Office and Office of Government Property.
This event will cover:
Right-Sizing the Estate – Reducing surplus properties, optimizing leases, and unlocking land for housing and investment, and ensuring property plays its part in the UK Industrial Strategy
Workforce & Location Planning – Relaunching Places for Growth, relocating senior roles, creating a more agile government footprint, and driving transformational change in how Government partners with the wider public sector in regions
Driving Efficiency & Sustainability – Maximizing cost savings, rethinking office space, and accelerating net-zero initiatives.
Prosperous Places – leveraging the public estate to drive regional economic growth, including innovative strategies for redesigning the public sector footprint in a place to inspire better outcomes and more efficient services
Building Condition & Maintenance – Addressing the maintenance backlog, driving FM transformation, and ensuring public services have the infrastructure they need.
Powering Public Outcomes: A Strategic Vision for the Government Estate – With the Government’s Missions shaping a bold new direction for the UK, the government estate must become a more agile, efficient, and mission-driven asset.
In this keynote, Mark Chivers will outline the strategic vision for transforming the public estate to unlock value, boost regional growth, and directly support the Government’s long-term ambitions.
From right-sizing and modernisation to unlocking surplus land for housing and investment, this session will set the tone for a reimagined, high-performing estate that delivers for citizens and communities.
Raising the Bar: Building Capability Across the Property Profession – Delivering a more effective, sustainable, and citizen-focused public estate depends on the people who plan, manage, and transform it.
Lynda Rawsthorne will explore how the Government Property Profession is developing the skills, confidence, and leadership of its people – supporting individuals to grow, innovate, and reach higher in their careers.
This session will look at career pathways, professional development, and how capability uplift aligns with the Property Strategy’s ambitions, ensuring that the workforce is ready to meet tomorrow’s challenges.
Property at the Heart of Infrastructure: Opportunities from the National Infrastructure Strategy – The National Infrastructure Strategy is creating new opportunities – and new expectations – for how government property supports national goals.
This panel brings together voices from across the sector to examine the estate’s role in delivering better outcomes through smarter facilities management, improved building condition, sustainable operations, and enhanced social value.
Panellists will unpack practical ways to align property with infrastructure priorities, exploring what’s needed to ensure that the estate not only keeps pace with ambition but actively accelerates it.
Smaller, better greener: Unlocking the power of the public estate – A ‘smaller, better, greener’ government estate and the localism agenda are key drivers of the Government Property Strategy, which will require all government departments to review their property needs. With the overall themes of (i) the condition and maintenance of the public estate and its productivity (2) the estate as a driver of economic growth and (3) efficiency and sustainability becoming ever more important; we’ll be looking at key things to consider as part of a disposal strategy – and some traps for the unwary.
More details coming soon……