Agenda item - Update on Housing Management of Brickfields Development

1)             Cabinet agrees to enter into a 125 year lease with the selected Registered Provider, Southdown for the best consideration reasonably obtainable in accordance with this report and the Part 2 Report.

2)             Cabinet delegates authority to the Corporate Director for Homes and Adult Social Care in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Communities, Equalities, Public Health & Adult Social Care to grant a 125-year lease to Southdown, and to enter into any ancillary documentation for the Brickfields building.

192.1   Cabinet considered a report that approval to grant a 125-year lease to a Registered Provider to provide the landlord and housing management function for the Brickfields supported living service.

192.2   Councillor Sankey contributed to the debate.

192.3   The Corporate Director- Homes & Adult Social Care explained that the decision centered upon borrowing on an asset that is effectively sold and would deliver identified savings. It would also enable the council to bring people currently housed in care in locations outside the city which was an important part of the Adult Social Care Improvement Plan.

192.4   Resolved-

1)             Cabinet agrees to enter into a 125 year lease with the selected Registered Provider, Southdown for the best consideration reasonably obtainable in accordance with this report and the Part 2 Report.

2)             Cabinet delegates authority to the Corporate Director for Homes and Adult Social Care in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Communities, Equalities, Public Health & Adult Social Care to grant a 125-year lease to Southdown, and to enter into any ancillary documentation for the Brickfields building.