At the Asset & Enterprise Committee held on 15 July 2014 it was resolved:-

“That conditional contracts for the sale of this site should be exchanged with the party that had submitted the highest compliant and deliverable bid”.

Terms were agreed with a prospective purchaser and conditional contracts were exchanged in October 2014, Appendix A (Exempt).

The prospective purchaser following several pre app meetings with

Planning submitted a planning application for a scheme to provide 14

units, a mixture of apartments and 4 town houses. The contract required

the purchaser to provide 5 affordable units and an additional 10

community car parking spaces, Appendix B.

Following the submission of the planning application and consultation the

purchasers has been advised by Planning to reduce the massing of the

rear block which previous was to be 4 town houses. The scheme now

provides 16 units all of which are to be apartments, of which 5 are to be

affordable plus 10 additional car parking spaces. All other terms to remain

as previously agreed, Appendix C.

A motion was MOVED by Cllr Parker and SECONDED by Cllr Faragher to agree the recommendation in the report.

A vote was taken and by a show of hands it was RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY that:

1.     The variation to the original scheme be approved.

REASON FOR RECOMMENDATION

Planning has required the purchaser to vary the original scheme following consultations.