Decision - Update on One Public Estate Programme Application and Greater Brighton Strategic Property Board Proposals

1)           That the Board note both the progress made in developing the City Region’s Services and Assets Delivery Plan and its contents.

2)           That the Board approve the proposed governance and delivery arrangements for the Programme, encompassing the establishment of the Greater Brighton Strategic Property Board to provide direction, oversight and accountability and the Greater Brighton Public Sector Property Group, to deliver at an operational level.

3)           That the Board approve the Terms of Reference for the Greater Brighton Strategic Property Board, attached as Appendix 1 subject to the deletion of the following from section 1.4: “The organisations represented on the Board will have a ‘right of first refusal’ on the purchase of Government assets (at market rate) that have been earmarked for disposal. Any Government sites that are identified to be surplus and that subsequently transfer to the Homes & Communities Agency will include a housing target”.

4)           That the Board appoints Peter Davies of the Shoreham Port Authority, also a Coastal West Sussex Board member, as the independent business representative on the Greater Brighton Strategic Property Board.