Issue - meetings

Recommended:           That Executive recommend that the estimated £981,000 of costs for the enabling works and the access road needed to facilitate the development of the Care Home are added to the Capital Programme with the costs initially being funded from capital held for the use of the Older Persons’ Accommodation Programme and subsequently being paid back from the capital receipt received from the disposal of development land on the Site.

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

[See also Part A minute]

Consideration was given to a report which sought consent to commence the delivery of the Burnholme Health and Wellbeing Campus to secure a viable future for the former Burnholme Community College site.

Officers highlighted the key risks to the delivery of the project, in particular the failure to secure consent to dispose of Area C to the south of the site and failure to secure consent to the use of the redundant school buildings which were both outside the authorities control.

Officers confirmed that the enabling works to facilitate and expedite the delivery of the project by around six months.

Following further discussion it was

Recommended:           That Executive recommend that the estimated £981,000 of costs for the enabling works and the access road needed to facilitate the development of the Care Home are added to the Capital Programme with the costs initially being funded from capital held for the use of the Older Persons’ Accommodation Programme and subsequently being paid back from the capital receipt received from the disposal of development land on the Site. ^1.

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