Issue - decisions

26/07/2024 - Cabinet Members' Items - Report of the Assets Portfolio Holder - A.1 - Removal of 25 areas of land from the Property Dealing Procedure following an initial review of 69 areas of land under the Procedure

RESOLVED that Cabinet –

 

(a)   approves the list of 25 sites put forward at Appendix A to the Portfolio Holder’s report (A.1) and hereby removes them from the Property Dealing Procedure based on their current status as safeguarded open space in the Local Plan;

(b)   in respect of the remaining 44 sites, as set out in Appendix B to that report, agrees to also remove them from the Property Dealing Procedure to enable resources to be allocated to other corporate projects requiring asset support; and

(c)   requests over time, when resources are available, that an assessment of the sites in Appendix B be undertaken by Officers with the Portfolio Holder for Assets to determine which ones, on a case by case basis, should be proposed for disposal to obtain a capital receipt or retained for council housing, with individual decisions.