Agenda item - Delivery of Community Facilities at the Burnholme Health & Wellbeing Campus

This report seeks consent to begin to deliver the Burnholme Health & Wellbeing Campus and secure a viable future for the former Burnholme Community College site in Heworth ward.

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.

[See also Part B 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.

Following extensive engagement Members were asked to agree the procurement of a nursing and residential care home at Burnholme, the submission of a planning application for community and library facilities, access road and car park and the sale of the former school playing fields for housing development.

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.

The Executive Member highlighted the support of Cllr Funnell for the campus and thanked Officers for their work towards delivery of the scheme which would provide capacity and additional opportunities for the local community.

Following further discussion it was