Decision details

Approval to purchase - subject to contract - a building from a developer to provide a minimum of 20 affordable homes

Exempt report of the Corporate Director (Housing and Communities) giving a progress update on the feasibility and development appraisals of three further garage sites and the procurement process to seek a construction partner to deliver the schemes.

(1)        The Decision Taken

RESOLVED:

(1)     Cabinet approved the update in relation to these three sites in Hatfield in the Phase Three garage site development programme.

(2)     Cabinet approved the three garage sites be appropriated at the end of April 2020 from the General Fund to the Housing Revenue Account for the values set out in the financial implications.

(2)        Reasons for the Decision

On 5 March 2019 Cabinet agreed that seven garage sites were to be included in the council’s Affordable Housing Programme and be submitted for planning approval and that a further report would be brought to Cabinet to provide an update on the detailed plans and feasibility work undertaken.