Issue - meetings

To consider and endorse or make recommendations to the Cabinet Member for Corporate and Democratic Services on the proposed decision. as set out in the report.

Mr R Lemerle, Disposals Surveyor, was in attendance for this item.

1.            The Cabinet Member, Mr Cooke, introduced the report and set out the background to the current proposal. Mr Lemerle responded to comments and questions from Members, as follows:-

a)    detailed checks had been made of the track record and reputation of any company bidding to purchase and develop the site, so the County Council could satisfy itself that any such company was reliable and financially sound; and

b)    a Section 106 agreement had been negotiated with Sevenoaks District Council, to release the site from its former designation as open space, with the condition that 0.5 hectare remain as open space.  The District Council had allocated the released site for residential development.

2.            RESOLVED that the decision proposed to be taken by the Cabinet Member for Corporate and Democratic Services, to sell the property and to delegate authority to the Director of Infrastructure, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Corporate and Democratic Services, to finalise the selected purchaser and terms of the proposed sale, be endorsed.