Decision details

In accordance with the Property Dealing Procedure

Not to initiate the disposal process in respect of a Council Dwelling in Marlborough Close Clacton-on-Sea. The disposal process was begun by the tenant under the right to buy process. The tenant died before that disposal was completed. Family members requested that the sale of the house continued to them but that request was refused because the right to buy rules do not allow that and therefore they requested that the sale continued outside of the right to buy rules. A feasibility appraisal was carried out but concluded that the retention of the property to meet social housing needs was of overriding importance.

The potential for agreeing to a sale was considered but rejected. Outside of the right to buy requirements property disposal is discretionary. In this case officers consider that retention of the house is in the public interest.