Issue - decisions

Resolved:  That the Executive agree to:

(i)                 Note progress towards achieving new uses for the Burnholme site.

(ii)                Seek interest from partners to progress:

·          continued community and sports use on the site;

·          a residential care home for older people;

·          housing provision;

·          health services delivered in a community setting.

(iii)              Agree that Officers develop a spatial plan for site in order to maximise land use and draw up a development timetable, utilising resources already held in the Older Persons’ Accommodation Programme budget.

(iv)              Request that a report is brought back to Executive in Q1 2016 to further examine the risks and rewards of the development and approve the approach/s to procurement of relevant partners.

Reason:  (i) (ii)    To secure the most appropriate and best value approach to develop and deliver the vision for the Burnholme Health & Wellness Campus including the delivery of a residential care home as part of the Older Persons’ Accommodation Programme.

(iii)       So that best use is made of this site.

(iv)       So that the project can progress.