West Norfolk council is to save almost £4m a year through greater efficiency.
A report by consultant Knox D’Arcy told the council it could secure big savings through bulk buying. It also said there were too many managers and that productivity was low.

The council will discuss how to implement the findings later this month. It may hire more consultants to advise on how the recommendations should work in practice.

Housing will come under a new procurement regime for services such as buying repairs materials.

But it will be spared radical staff changes because the council is to ballot its tenants on stock transfer in the autumn and wants to “ maximise staff availability and goodwill” in the run-up to the ballot.West Norfolk needs about £95m to bring its 7000 homes up to the decent homes standard.

Transfer will increase its budget deficit from £306,170 for next year to about £1m.

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Housing Today