Decision details

Proposed purchase of residential development land at Hythe Medical Centre, Hythe and Dibden War Memorial Hospital, Beaulieu Road, Hythe SO45 4ZB

Decision Maker: Portfolio Holder - Finance, Investment and Corporate Services, Portfolio Holder - Housing and Homelessness Services

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

This report seeks the approval of the Housing and Homelessness Services Portfolio Holder and the Finance, Investment and Corporate Services Portfolio Holder to acquire the freehold interest in land for affordable housing development on the site of Hythe Medical Centre, Hythe.

Decision:

On 10 January 2022, Cllr Jill Cleary, the Housing and Homelessness Services Portfolio Holder and Cllr Jeremy Heron, the Finance, Investment and Corporate Services Portfolio Holder, made the following decision:
That the Council enters a legal commitment to acquire the freehold interest in the land at Hythe Medical Centre, Beaulieu Road, Hythe in Autumn 2022, and makes progress with a full planning application as quickly as possible.
Any member of the Council, who is not a Portfolio Holder, who considers that this decision should be reviewed should give notice using the call-in facility at the top of this page on the Council’s intranet / extranet site. Alternatively, notice can be given to the Monitoring Officer (Grainne O’Rourke) (in writing or by e-mail) to be received ON OR BY 5.15 pm on Monday, 17 January 2022. Details of the document the Portfolio Holder considered are attached below.

Reasons for the decision:

See report.

Alternative options considered:

See report.

Declarations of Interest(s): None

Contact: Tim Davis, Service Manager - Housing Strategy & Development Email: tim.davis@nfdc.gov.uk, Grainne O'Rourke, Strategic Director of Housing, Communities and Governance Email: grainne.orourke@nfdc.gov.uk.

Publication date: 10/01/2022

Date of decision: 10/01/2022

Effective from: 18/01/2022

Accompanying Documents: