Ministers should remove property transfer tax barriers, such as stamp duty, to help local authorities deliver the bulk of up to £15bn in savings and £35bn in capital receipts over the next ten years, a report has urged.

A follow up to last year's Leaner and Greener study - which claimed that £7bn in property savings could be made across local government and the wider public sector by co-locating services, sharing space and spend - suggests further productivity gains of at least £8bn are attainable.