A decision is required to declare a dwelling that forms part of the Trinity Green Almshouses as surplus to the council’s operational requirements and dispose of it on the open market. This is due to the prohibitive cost of bringing the property back up to a habitable standard.

Disposing of it would allow the purchaser to bring the dwelling back up to a habitable standard through a restoration programme and return the site to housing use. This would place the expense and risk on them and allow the council to invest the receipt in other priority areas in the Housing Revenue Account.

The proposal is for the disposal of 2 Trinity Green, Mile End Road, E1 4TS.

The exempt appendix was noted.

The recommendations were amended and then agreed.

DECISION

1. To defer consideration of the report to a future Cabinet meeting to allow for further discussion on potential disposal processes.

ACTING CORPORATE DIRECTOR, PLACE (A. SUTCLIFFE)

(Divisional Director, Property and Major Programmes (R Chilcott)