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Kings Quarter Plot 1 Residential Development

Meeting: 11/03/2020 - Cabinet (Item 122)

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To consider the report of the Cabinet Member for Environment seeking to  approve the marketing and subsequent disposal of the site identified as Plot 1 in the Kings Quarter Planning Application (18/01454/FUL) for affordable homes.

 

Additional documents:

Decision:

RESOLVED that: 

 

(1)           the marketing and disposal of the site identified as Plot 1 in the Kings Quarter Planning Application (18/01454/FUL) for affordable homes be approved

 

(2)           authority be delegated to the Head of Place, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Environment and Head of Policy and Resources to accept the offer that represents best value for development for affordable homes for affordable or social rent

 

(3)           authority be delegated to the Head of Place in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Environment and the Council Solicitor to prepare and agree the terms of the disposal documents.

 

Minutes:

Cabinet considered the report of the Cabinet Member for Environment that sought to approve the marketing and subsequent disposal of the site identified as Plot 1 in the Kings Quarter Planning Application (18/01454/FUL) for affordable homes.

 

The Cabinet Member for Environment highlighted the 25 affordable homes that Plot 1 would deliver and that any proceeds from the disposal would support the Council’s ongoing capital programme.  The Cabinet Member for Planning and Housing Strategy commended the application of the aim for 25% affordable homes in the emerging City Plan.  He proposed that the recommendation to accept the offer that represents best value for development for affordable homes (2.1.2) be clarified as affordable homes for affordable or social rent.  The Managing Director asked if exemplar climate change resilient homes should be included.  The Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods underlined how important it was to demonstrate the Council’s progressive ambitions and that it would be an opportunity for developers to show how seriously they are taking climate change.  The Head of Place advised Members that this would make an impact on receipts and suggested that developers be asked to put forward options.  The Cabinet Member for Environment agreed that this was the best way forward and that if an option made the scheme unviable then it would not be chosen.

 

RESOLVED that: 

 

(1)          the marketing and disposal of the site identified as Plot 1 in the Kings Quarter Planning Application (18/01454/FUL) for affordable homes be approved

 

(2)          authority be delegated to the Head of Place, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Environment and Head of Policy and Resources to accept the offer that represents best value for development for affordable homes for affordable or social rent

 

(3)          authority be delegated to the Head of Place in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Environment and the Council Solicitor to prepare and agree the terms of the disposal documents.