Service Devolution and Asset Transfer Policy

2.1 The scope of this policy document applies to all types of devolution transfer by Buckinghamshire Council - both the devolution of the responsibility for running services and community asset transfer.

2.2 Service devolution involves the transfer of the responsibility of running a service from Buckinghamshire Council to another local body.

2.3 Community asset transfer involves the transferring of ownership of land, buildings, or other assets from a statutory body to a community organisation in order to achieve a greater public benefit.

2.4 The application of this policy may be triggered by either external requests from local organisations and/or triggered by Buckinghamshire Council through an identification by a service area that an asset is declared ‘surplus to requirements’.