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RESOLVED: Cabinet:
 
1.    
Authorised the Assistant Director Assets &
Environment in consultation with the Executive Director Resources
and Finance Portfolio Holder to dispose of, register, or acquire
each of the following sites, in each case with the ability to enter
into any documents or agreements required to facilitate or enable
the proposed transaction:
 

a)             
Disposal of land at the Southfields School (former),
Brackley.

b)             
Disposal of land at Heartlands, Daventry.

c)              
Transfer of Cracks Hill, Crick to Crick Parish
Council – for less than best consideration (nil value
transfer), including the authority to consider any objections to
the disposal of open space and take a decision whether or not to
proceed in light of them.

d)             
Transfer of Land at High Street, Wootton to Wootton
Parish Council – for less than best consideration (nil value
transfer), including the authority to consider any objections to
the disposal of open space and take a decision whether or not to
proceed in light of them.

e)             
Registration or acquisition of land off Green Lane,
Northampton – including, if necessary, acquisition of land
under compulsory purchase powers.

f)               
Registration or acquisition of land off Old A45,
Northampton – including, if necessary, acquisition of land
under compulsory purchase powers.
 
2.    
Authorised, as a replacement in whole or part for
3.1.1(a), the Assistant Director Assets & Environment in
consultation with the Executive Director Resources and the Finance
Portfolio Holder to transfer the land proposed for sale at the
former Southfields School site, Brackley, to the Council’s
Housing Revenue Account (HRA) for development of social housing on
the basis that a viable council housing scheme has been
identified.
3.    
Created a capital budget of £0.5 million from
receipts from the sales of estate shops for the acquisition of
properties which (taken together) would result in net income to the
Council.
4.    
Noted that as the Council’s estate is
reviewed, further sales of commercial properties which do not have
a strategic significance and which are not financially worthwhile
retaining may be proposed, to be approved, depending on their
scale, under delegated authority or under further Cabinet
decisions.
5.    
Noted that further proposals may come forward to use
capital receipts from sales to acquire or develop replacement
assets.
6.    
Approved the exclusion from sale of the
‘Theatre’ building at the former Southfield School
site, Brackley, and, subject to the results of the family hubs
consultation, its allocation for community uses including as a
Family Hub ‘spoke’, together with as much land as is
reasonably required to enable it to operate (including for
parking).
7.    
Noted the urgent decision taken by the Leader to
approve the grant of a change of use at the Abbey Retail Park,
Daventry.
 
 
REASONS RESOLVED: Specific
reasons for each decision in relation to each site are given in the
relevant appendices.
 
ALTERNATIVE OPTIONS: The issues
and choices in relation to each site are set out in the relevant
appendices.