Reference: D50550
Decision Maker: Director of Resources
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
The Director of Resources & Housing:
a) Granted approval for the council to declare the tenant’s
leasehold interest and the site in its current form as a vacant
former public house, surplus to requirements.
b) Granted approval for Resources and Housing to instruct Land
& Property (City Development) to negotiate terms for the
acquisition of the tenant’s leasehold interest (such terms
being approved by the Chief Officer, Asset Management and
Regeneration and lease acquisition costs to be funded by the
CHGP).
c) Granted approval for the demolition of the existing building
following acquisition of the leasehold interest (demolition also to
be funded by the CHGP) with a view to redeveloping the site for new
build council housing.
d) Granted Authority to Spend in the sum of £270,000 for the
associated lease acquisition and demolition costs.
e) Noted that a report is being submitted in parallel with this
report to the Chief Officer, Asset Management and Regeneration to
approve the lease acquisition terms.
f) Noted that the details of the redevelopment proposals for the
site will follow under cover of a further report in due course,
along with Authority to Spend for the scheme costs.
Wards Affected: Hunslet and Riverside;
Contact: Katherine Pack-Jagger, Project Manager 0113 37 82815 Email: Katherine.PackJagger@leeds.gov.uk.
Publication date: 14/02/2020
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