An Introduction to Business Cases

NB: The webinar, and accompanying slides were produced prior to the publication of the Towns Fund Business Case guidance.

Description:

As Cohort 1 Towns received their Heads of Terms and moved into Stage 2 of the Towns Fund programme, this webinar was hosted to provide an introduction to the Business Case process in the context of Towns Fund.

It included:

• an overview of the HM Green Book 5-case model and

• provided some overarching advice on how to approach the five cases, including a checklist for key content for each case

• emerging Towns Funds specific business case guidance

About the speaker:

Adriana Moreno Pelayo is an experienced Economist at Arup with nine years of experience, having developed a wide variety of business cases across different sectors, particularly in the transport sector. She coordinates the transport business case network at Arup and sits in the committee of the Transport Economists Group. Adriana contributed to Arup’s paper on how to reform the Green Book and has presented at different events on the topic.

Joe Gregory has over eight years of experience delivering infrastructure engagements across a portfolio of clients, including local and central government and private sector clients, predominantly within the real estate sector. He has advised multiple councils on their Future High Street Fund business cases.