Approval of proposal for the future management of the Council’s Community Building Portfolio.

DECISION

1.     To agree the principles to be applied to leases to be issued to tenants in council-owned community buildings, set out in section 9 of the report;

2.     To agree that the basis for charging for these premises should be the open market rental value, for D1 use, subject to any recognition of community benefit;

3.     To note that a proposed methodology for assessing and quantifying said community benefit will be presented to the Mayor in Cabinet, in a further report, to be considered no later than May 2016; and

4.     To note that a property-by-property review of council-owned community buildings, as described in section 12.1, is taking place and the outcome of the review will also be presented to the Mayor in Cabinet.

Action by:

CORPORATE DIRECTOR, DEVELOPMENT AND RENEWAL (A. DALVI)

(Service Head, Corporate Property and Capital Delivery (A. Sutcliffe)