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Report of the Cabinet Member for Housing seeking a change in Council policy from awarding leases over Housing Revenue Account land to granting sales of Housing Revenue Account land, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 11/12 7687)

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member forHousing and having received representations from Members of the Council, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  Where requests to purchase HRA land are received the authority will seek, wherever possible and in its best interests, to sell the land rather than to grant a lease or licence. 

(ii)  The existing mechanism of granting a lease or licence will be retained for situations where sale of the land would not be in the authority's best interests, for instance, where this might prejudice a subsequent development.