Decision details
Decision to acquire five properties under the Refugee Housing Programme
PDF 128 KBDecision Maker: Strategic Director for the Environment
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
This decision is one of several key decisions
to enable the council to purchase properties to support refugee
resettlement in line with the aims of the Refugee Housing
Programme.
Decision:
That the Strategic Director for Environment, in consultation with the Strategic Director of Finance:
- Note that appendices one, two, three, four and five are not for publication on the basis that they contain information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information) as set out in paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended).
- Approve the decision to acquire the properties and the associated expenditure outlined in exempt appendices one, two, three, four and five against the existing approved RHP capital budget of £16,800,000 and transfer deed for the purchase of the properties.
- Approve the decision to enter into the contracts for sale and transfer deeds for the purchase of the properties.
Reasons for the decision:
This decision requests authority to purchase the property described above under the RHP. The leader’s urgency decision approved in July 2023 established a capital budget for this programme and confirmed that individual acquisitions would be subject to distinct decision reports to be approved by the Strategic Director of Environment in consultation with the Strategic Director of Finance.
Alternative options considered:
As described in the report.
Publication date: 28/05/2024
Date of decision: 23/05/2024
Effective from: 01/06/2024
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