StrategicPlace — Releasing Public Sector Value

What StrategicPlace does

The problem isn't strategy, capital or assets in isolation.

It's what happens when all three need to move together — and nobody in the room has done all of them. That's where StrategicPlace operates: at the intersection where the real value is locked, and where generalist advice runs out.

Most public sector organisations can find strategy consultants. They can find surveyors. They can find finance advisors. What they rarely find is someone who holds all three, has done it at executive level across the NHS and local government simultaneously, and can lead delivery — not just report on it.

Health Systems

NHS board governance, ICS estate strategy, system-level place leadership across NHS and local authority boundaries.

Public Assets

Portfolio management, disposal programmes, LGR asset consolidation, operational FM and capital receipt delivery under financial pressure.

Capital Delivery

Development finance, investment structuring, CapEx programme leadership and temporary accommodation financing models.

What this means in practice

Sit in an NHS board room with governance authority and credibility
Lead in a council leadership meeting with operational delivery track record
Structure capital, understand development finance and manage complex portfolios
Deliver system-wide transformation — not just advise on it
Navigate the political environment both sectors operate in
Apply AI implementation thinking to public sector systems with practitioner credibility

"If your challenge sits at the intersection of estates, finance and system transformation — this is where StrategicPlace operates."

Who this is for

The right client will recognise
themselves immediately.

StrategicPlace works with organisations where the challenge is real, the stakes are high, and the problem doesn't sit neatly in one box.

NHS Integrated Care Systems

Rationalising fragmented, costly estates across multiple trusts and geographies — where a system-level view is essential and single-organisation thinking fails.

Local Government Reorganisation

Authorities merging across England — consolidating assets, integrating cultures and restructuring finances simultaneously. Delivery experience, not advisory input.

EFS & Best Value Environments

Councils under Exceptional Financial Support or Best Value Notice requiring rapid savings delivery, capital receipt programmes and portfolio transformation under pressure.

Health & Authority Partnerships

System-level place leadership where health and local government need to move together — and rarely speak the same language without an interpreter who knows both sides.

Temporary Accommodation

Structuring financially sustainable models for authorities facing acute temporary accommodation pressures — working across housing, NHS and private sector partners to find solutions that work operationally, not just on paper.

Board & NED Roles

Housing associations, NHS Foundation Trusts and public bodies requiring property, assets and capital expertise at board level — governance with genuine delivery credibility.

How we work

Engagements structured around
outcomes, not time.

The shift from day-rate advisory to genuine value creation means structuring work where knowledge creates outcomes — not just reports. Every engagement is led by the principal advisor, not a junior team.

01

Strategic Advisory & Interim Leadership

Embedded, outcome-focused engagements — from a focused diagnostic to a multi-year interim director role. Direct access to the advisor who has done it.

02

Asset Portfolio & Disposal Programmes

End-to-end portfolio effectiveness reviews and disposal programmes for non-performing assets. Fees aligned to outcomes, not activity.

03

LGR Transition & Savings Delivery

Asset consolidation, financial strategy and culture integration across merging authorities. Fee linked to verified savings at scale.

04

System Estates Strategy

Proven methodology across NHS Trusts and councils — designed and delivered, not just reported. Replicable across all 42 ICS areas in England.

05

Temporary Accommodation Financing

Structuring financial and delivery models for authorities facing acute housing pressures — across NHS step-down, supported living and private sector partnerships.

06

Board & NED Advisory

Property, assets and capital expertise at board level for housing associations, NHS Foundation Trusts and public bodies. Annual retainer basis.

A note on how engagements are structured. StrategicPlace does not operate as a staffing agency with associates at arm's length. Clients work directly with the principal advisor throughout. This is a deliberate choice — it is how the practice maintains the quality and credibility that justifies the engagement.

Principal Advisor

Oliver Judges

Founder & Director, StrategicPlace Ltd

StrategicPlace was founded by Oliver Judges to work at the intersection of health systems, public sector assets and capital delivery — the space where most public sector organisations have the greatest unresolved challenge and the fewest advisors who genuinely understand all three dimensions.

"Clients work with the person who has done it — not a methodology, not a team, not a framework. Direct engagement throughout."

Oliver brings over 25 years of executive and advisory experience across local government, the NHS and capital delivery. He has chaired NHS Trust boards, led multi-directorate transformation in local authorities, managed £250m property portfolios and delivered £170m+ of capital investment. He designed a system-wide estates strategy spanning nine NHS Trusts and ten councils — a model now replicable across all 42 ICS areas in England.

He currently serves as Interim Director of Property, Assets and System Transformation at the London Borough of Newham — one of England's most financially challenged boroughs, operating under Best Value Notice and Exceptional Financial Support — where he is delivering a 40% savings programme and £52m of asset disposals. He is also Joint Chair of the ICB Infrastructure Board and NED of Populo Living, the Council's housing company.

His completed executive programme in AI-Driven Business Transformation at Saïd Business School, Oxford (2026) provides the foundation for StrategicPlace's emerging work on AI implementation strategy across public sector systems — where the differentiation is not AI expertise in isolation, but understanding how to apply it within the political, financial and operational realities of health and local government.

Professional credentials

FRICS · MBA

FRICS

Fellow, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

MBA

Executive MBA Cranfield University

PgDip

Real Estate Investment Cass Business School

AI

AI-Driven Business Transformation Saïd Business School, Oxford — completed 2026

Current engagement

Interim Director — Property, Assets & System Transformation
London Borough of Newham

Delivering under Best Value Notice and Exceptional Financial Support — one of England's most acute financial intervention environments.

Get in touch

If the challenge is real,
a conversation costs nothing.

StrategicPlace works with a small number of clients on engagements that matter. If your challenge sits at the intersection of health, assets and capital — and you need someone who has done all three — the right starting point is a direct conversation.

oliver@strategicplace.co.uk

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Releasing Public Sector Value Where Health, Assets & Capital Converge.