Issue - items at meetings - New England House & Longley Industrial Estate

Report of the Acting Executive Director for Environment, Development & Housing (copy attached).

That the committee agrees that the decision made on 3^rd December 2015 in respect of the proposed development of the New England House (“NEH”) and Longley Industrial Estate sites is rescinded and notes that a further report will be brought to committee in due course.

155.1    The Committee considered a report of the Acting Executive Director for Environment, Development & Housing in relation to New England House & Longley Industrial Estate. The report sought permission to rescind a decision made by the Committee on 3 December 2015.

155.2    In response to Councillor Mac Cafferty it was explained that if the recommendation was agreed then it would be for Officers to engage about an appropriate way forward to ensure the regeneration of the New England Quarter progressed with minimal delay. In relation to whether this situation could have been avoided at the time the Committee took the decision in December, Officers were of the view that the Committee had been advised to take the most appropriate decision at that time, with all the information they had before them.

155.3    The Chair then put the recommendations to the vote.

155.4    RESOLVED – That the committee agrees that the decision made on 3 December 2015 in respect of the proposed development of the New England House (“NEH”) and Longley Industrial Estate sites is rescinded and notes that a further report will be brought to committee in due course.