Decision details

Purpose of Report: To consider the new community facilities at the Burnholme Health and Wellbeing campus following on from examination of the future of this school site by Executive in October 2015.

The Executive are asked to consider the investment in the new community facilities.

This item has been deferred until 19May Executive.

Officers will continue to progress Department of Education approval for change of use of the Burnholme Community College site but until this consent is in train/approved it is not thought prudent to progress with consent to move forward with the delivery of community facilities at Burnholme. 

Resolved:  That the Executive:

(i)           Note the positive resident and stakeholder support for the plans to re-develop the Site to create a Health & Wellbeing Campus.

(ii)          Agree the spatial plan prepared for the Site as the guide to its redevelopment.

(iii)        Agree to:

a.           procure a developer/operator to construct and operate a Care Home on the Site;

b.           dispose of the site of the Care Home to its developer by way of a long lease in return for payment of a premium/capital sum;

c.           impose a condition within the lease that the land  can only be used as a Care Home for a specified period; 

d.           procure a  contract  under which the Council would seek to purchase access to a specified number of beds in the Care Home at a specified rate for a specified number of years;

e.           the undertaking by the Council of demolition, road construction and other enabling works estimated to cost in the region of £981,000(in order to facilitate construction of the Care Home and development of adjoining land for housing); and

f.            the cost of this procurement and the necessary demolition and enabling works initially being paid out of the Older Persons’ Accommodation Programme budget and later by receipts from the disposal of land on the Site.

(iv)  Agree to receive the recommendation to sell land for the Care Home to the preferred bidder in accordance with Financial Regulations. 

(v)      Agree to the preparation and submission of a planning application (relating to the community and library facilities, the new access road and car parking on the Site) in order to facilitate the development of the Care Home with the cost of preparing the planning application estimated to be £90,000, to be initially funded from the Older Persons’ Accommodation Programme and subsequently from future receipts from the disposal of land on the Site.

(vi)        Agree to seek a developer or alternatively for the Council to undertake development for housing of approximately 4.5 acres on the Site subject to obtaining necessary Department of Education (DfE) consent and the funds released by this development are used to support the provision of community, library and sports facilities on the Site.

(vii)      Agree to receive the recommendation, where relevant, to sell land for housing to the preferred developer in accordance with Financial Regulations. 

(viii)     Request that reports are brought to Executive later in 2016 to:

a.      Provide details of the health facilities that can be provided on the Site and the structure of the partnership which will deliver them.

b.      Sanction investment in the community, library and sports facilities once DfE consents have been obtained.

c.       Sanction arrangements for the future management of the community facilities on Site once DfE consents have been obtained.

Reason: (i to vii) To progress to delivering the Burnholme Health & Wellbeing Campus including the delivery of a Care Home as part of the Older Persons’ Accommodation Programme.

     (viii)       So that the project can progress.