Issue - items at meetings - Request to sell piece of HRA land at Connell Drive

Report of the Executive Director for Environment, Development & Housing (copy attached) together with an extract from the meeting of the Housing & New Homes Committee held on 17 June 2015 (to follow).

1)            That Policy and Resources Committee agrees to sell the freehold of the subject land at Connell Drive, Woodingdean to the applicant, Geoffrey Wells, for the sum of £26,500.

2)            That Policy and Resources Committee approves that the capital receipt is used to support the housing capital programme.

33.1       The Committee considered a report of the Executive Director for Environment, Development & Housing in relation to Request to Sell Piece of HRA Land at Connell Drive. The Housing & New Homes Committee agreed to recommend to the Policy & Resources Committee, on 17 June 2015, that the Council sell the freehold of the land to the applicant Geoffrey Wells; it was also noted that the applicant was a former Councillor; who had stood down on at the last local elections.

33.2       It was confirmed for Councillor Sykes that the sale price had included the uplifted value of the land.

33.3       The Chair then put the recommendations to the vote:

33.4       RESOLVED:

1)        That Policy and Resources Committee agrees to sell the freehold of the subject land at Connell Drive, Woodingdean to the applicant, Geoffrey Wells, for the sum of £26,500.

2)        That Policy and Resources Committee approves that the capital receipt is used to support the housing capital programme.