Issue - meetings

The Deputy Leader of the Council and Vice-Chair of Cabinet, along with the Cabinet Member for Strategic Planning and the Corporate Director of Communities and Housing submitted a joint report seeking approval in principle from Cabinet to transfer Council-owned land to its Housing Company.  

Councillor Sumner introduced the joint report and set out the expected process should the recommendations be adopted. Councillors Mary Martin and Keith Williams asked questions about specific sites while Councillor Oliver Donachie asked about the Swindon Housing Company. Councillor Sumner responded at the meeting. Councillor Dale Heenan set out a reasoned principle by which he could support six sites but not the seventh; hence, he would abstain on the vote.

Resolved:

1)   That, in principle the allocation of land referred to in paragraph 3.1 and shown edged in red on the plans attached at Appendix One, as future housing developments sites to be delivered by the Swindon Housing Company Ltd be approved.

2)   That the Head of Property Assets, in consultation with the Chief Legal Officer and the Director of Finance, be authorised to:

a.    Agree the terms for the transfer of the land detailed at paragraph 3.1 

b.    And, subject to the successful completion of process set out in paragraph 3.5, transfer the land to the Swindon Housing Company Ltd.

Councillor Dale Heenan abstained on the above resolution.

The reasons for the decision and alternative options are as set out in the report to the meeting.