Issue - meetings

Councillor H. Harvey

To consider a report on the proposed property letting ‘F’.

Reason for exemption

This report contains exempt information within the meaning of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972, as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985 and by the Local Government (Access to information) (Variation) Order 2006:

Paragraph 3 – Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information) and in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information because if potential tenants were aware that the Council publish commercial information prior to leases being completed, they would be dissuaded from transacting with the authority and this may put the authority at a disadvantage in securing tenants for its properties.

Paragraph 3 – Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information)

The Property and Investment Committee considered an exempt report on property letting ‘F’.

The Asset Management Contractor outlined the proposed terms of the lease and the benefits to the Council of securing this tenant. 

Alternative options considered and rejected by the Committee:

·         Not to agree the letting.

Resolved to approve the letting for property ‘F’ on the terms as set out in the exempt report.

Reason for Decision:

The letting will reduce the void rate within the building.  It is in line with the business plan for the property and the terms are favourable in the current market.