Agenda and minutes

Report of the Cabinet Member for Resources and Leisure seeking approval for Changes to existing budgets.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 14/15 13646 )

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member for Resources and Leisure, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  To note that the Hampshire Chamber of Commerce has requested a contribution of £50,000 to meet the costs of engaging a 3^rd party consultant to progress the setting up of a Business Improvement District in Southampton.

(ii)  To approve the contribution of £50,000 for this purpose in 2014/15 to be funded from a draw from contingencies. If the BID is successful this contribution will be repaid in full.

Report of the Cabinet Member for Housing and Sustainability seeking approval for matters relating to the regeneration of Townhill Park.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 14/15 13966 )

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member for Housing and Sustainability, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  To delegate authority to the Director, Place, in consultation with the Chief Financial Officer to accept grant funding of £750,000 from the Affordable Housing Programme 2015 – 2018 from the Homes and Communities Agency to part fund phase one of the redevelopment of Townhill Park and enter into the affordable housing grant funding agreement as a member of the Wayfarer Consortium.

(ii)  To serve Final Demolition Notices on any secure tenants remaining in occupation of properties on the phase one redevelopment sites.

(iii)  To approve (once vacant possession and planning permission has been obtained) the demolition of the buildings and structures on the land hatched in black in Appendix 1.

(iv)  To authorise the Estate Regeneration Project Manager responsible for managing the Townhill Park Redevelopment project in consultation with the (Interim) Planning & Development Manager and the Highways Manager to make the necessary applications for  highway/ footpath stopping up and/or diversion orders in respect of the Paulet Close / Meggeson Avenue footpath, the Roundhill Close / Townhill Way footpath and Roundhill Close and  Townhill Way including footways, verges and carriageway within the site identified in the plan at Appendix 1.

(v)  To delegate authority to the Director, Place following consultation with the Head of Housing Services, Head of Development, Economy & Renewal and the Cabinet Member for Housing and Sustainability to submit a planning application for redevelopment of phases one, two and three of the Townhill Park regeneration.

(vi)  To authorise the Director, Place, following consultation with the Head of Legal and Democratic Services and the Chief Financial Officer, to take all lawful steps to effect the proposals in the report.

Report of the Cabinet Member for Resources and Leisure seeking approval for the sale of a leasehold.

NOTE: This report is submitted for consideration as a general exception under paragraph 15 of the Access to Information procedure Rules in Part 4 of the Council’s Constitution, notice having been given to the Chair of Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 14/15 14145)

On consideration of the confidential report of the Cabinet Member for Resources and Leisure, Cabinet agreed the recommendations set out in the report.