Reference: D48372
Decision Maker: Director of City Development
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: No
Approval is sought for the purchase of a strategic property holding the value of which results in the decision being a key decision.
The Chief Officer Financial Services:
i) Approved the injection to the capital programme as outlined in the confidential appendix.
The Director of City Development:
i) Authorised the Head of Land & Property to instruct the agent to act on the Council’s behalf and provide specialist property support as outlined in the confidential appendix.
ii) Authorised the purchase of the property at the cost outlined in the confidential appendix, and as a consequence of the acquisition to enter into the Thorpe park management company.
iii) Approved the authority to spend as outlined in the confidential appendix.
iv) Waived of the Contracts Procedure Rules nos 8.1 and 8.2 and authorised the direct appointment of CBRE to temporarily manage the property on the Council’s behalf as outlined in the confidential appendix.
v) Agreed that this report is made exempt to Call-In for the reasons set out in paragraph 4.5.5 in the open part of the report.
Reason Key: Expenditure > £250,000;
Wards Affected: (All Wards);
If exempt from Call-In, the reason why Call-In would prejudice the interests of the Council or the public:: To enable the Council to meet the vendor's timescales
Other reasons / organisations consulted
Individual briefings
Consultees
Executive Member for Resources and Sustainability
Executive Member for Regeneration, Transport and Planning
Leader of Conservative Group
Leader of Lib Dem Group
Chief Finance Officer
Contact: Mary Stockton, Senior Surveyor 0113 378 7684 Email: mary.stockton@leeds.gov.uk.
Publication date: 13/02/2019
Date of decision: 21/02/2019
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