Cabinet Members' Items - Report of the Corporate Finance & Governance Portfolio Holder - A.1 - Delegated Powers for Assets of Community Value & Determination of a Nomination to Register an Asset of Community Value: Great Bentley Footpath 2 going thro

January 30, 2026 Cabinet (Cabinet collective) Awaiting outcome View on council website
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Decision

RESOLVED that Cabinet

 

a)      
approves that the determination and internal review
process for Assets of Community Value be delegated to Officers in
line with the process identified within the report for future
nominations received;

 

b)      
requests the Chief Executive to identify the
relevant directorate and Officers to exercise the delegations and
agrees that the Portfolio Holder with responsibility for the
oversight of assets of community value should be the Portfolio
Holder for Assets and Community Safety;

 

c)      
requests the Monitoring Officer, following
consultation with the Chief Executive on the relevant service area,
to make the necessary amendments to the Responsibility for
Executive Functions section within Part 3, Schedule 3 of the
Council’s Constitution;

 

d)      
following consideration of the contents of the
report, formally determines that Great Bentley Footpath 2 going
through land at Crabtree Farm, Colchester Road, Great Bentley, and
land lying to the north of Sturrick
Lane, Great Bentley, does not meet the definition of an Asset of
Community Value as set out in Section 88 of the Localism Act 2011;
and
 

e)      
determines therefore that the asset should not be
added to the Council’s list of Assets of Community Value for
the reasons set out in the report and which shall be notified to
the nominating body.
 

Details

Decision date30 Jan 2026
Subject to call-inYes