Decision details

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Decision:

RESOLVED that Cabinet –

           

(a)    notes the feedback from the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (now the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities) regarding the Council retaining ownership of the Jaywick Sands Covered Market and Commercial Space once constructed;

 

(b)    grants an exemption to the Council’s Procurement Procedure Rules, having considered the recommendation from the Council’s Section 151 Officer and the Monitoring Officer, in order to allow a direct award to the Council’s Operating Partner, COLBEA, to enter into a Service Contract for the Management of the Facility and to provide a Business Support Service;

 

(c)    authorises the Interim Corporate Director (Project Delivery), to agree the terms and conditions of the Service Contract, within the context of the principles set out in the Portfolio Holders’ joint report, and in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Housing and the Portfolio Holder for Business and Economic Growth;

 

(d)    endorses  the granting of a Licence to COLBEA to occupy the property on terms to be agreed by the Interim Corporate Director (Project Delivery), in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Housing and the Portfolio Holder for Business and Economic Growth;

 

(e)    endorses the allocation of up to an additional £70,000 from the budget set aside to support housing in Jaywick to the Jaywick Sands Covered Market and Managed Workspace project, with the final amount being agreed by the Interim Corporate Director (Project Delivery), in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Housing and the Portfolio Holder for Business and Economic Growth; and

 

(f)     authorises the Council’s Section 151 Officer, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Corporate Finance and Governance, to make the necessary changes to the Council’s General Fund and Housing Revenue Account budgets to reflect the decisions made.

 

Report author: Tom Gardiner

Publication date: 08/10/2021

Date of decision: 08/10/2021

Decided at meeting: 08/10/2021 - Cabinet

Effective from: 16/10/2021

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