Issue - meetings

Report of the Director of Housing Services

1.      The Director of Housing, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder, is to be authorised to negotiate the terms of the disposal at nil financial consideration of land shown at appendix A to Metropolitan Housing Trust in return for nomination rights to all completed homes.

2.      A report setting out the final terms of disposal is to be presented to Cabinet for final approval in due course.

3.      It has been noted that on Health and Safety grounds, numbers 58 & 60 Greenfield Avenue have had to be demolished because of structural instability due to subsidence.

As relevant Portfolio Holder, Councillor Beardsworth presented the report to Cabinet and explained that, following the demolition of some unsafe buildings on the site, approval was being sought to dispose of the land in order that it might be redeveloped for housing.

RESOLVED

1.      That the Director of Housing, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder, be authorised to negotiate the terms of the disposal at nil financial consideration of land shown at appendix A to Metropolitan Housing Trust in return for nomination rights to all completed homes.

2.      That a report setting out the final terms of disposal be presented to Cabinet for final approval in due course.

3.      That Cabinet note that on Health and Safety grounds, numbers 58 & 60 Greenfield Avenue have had to be demolished because of structural instability due to subsidence.