Issue - meetings

Sale of Chilterns End, Henley

 

 

Meeting: 23/01/2024 - Cabinet (Item 13)

13 Freehold Disposal Chilterns End Former Care Home, Henley on Thames pdf icon PDF 315 KB

Cabinet Member: Finance

Forward Plan Ref: 2023/359

Contact: Henry White, Senior Strategic Assets Officer

(07513703546), Michael Smedley, Head of Estates, Assets and Investment (07543 509690)

 

 

Report by Director of Property Services (CA13)

 

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to:

 

a)    Approve, as a key decision, the freehold sale of land comprising the former elderly persons home at Chilterns End to a named purchaser in consideration of the Council receiving a capital receipt.

 

b)    Delegate authority to the Executive Director of Resources, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Finance, to consider officer recommendations and agree the final purchaser and sale price.

 

 

 

Decision:

Recommendations approved.

Minutes:

Cabinet had before it a report on the proposed disposal of land comprising  the former elderly persons home at Chilterns End.

 

The property was let to the Oxfordshire Care Partnership under a project agreement dated 20 December 2001, for a term of 60 years, for use as an elderly person’s home. The property had been empty since 2016 when the residents moved to a new facility elsewhere in Henley. Oxfordshire County Council (OCC) took back occupation in October 2019.

 

The property had been considered for several uses within OCC since late 2019, but with no viable business case forthcoming. It has been allocated in the Henley on Thames Neighbourhood Plan for a mix of open market and affordable housing.

 

The property had been formally declared surplus and  been marketed for sale for the last two months.

 

Councillor Dan Levy, Cabinet Member for Finance, presented the report.

 

Councillor Levy moved and Councillor Levy seconded the recommendations and they were approved.

 

 

RESOLVED to:

 

a)    Approve, as a key decision, the freehold sale of land comprising the former elderly persons home at Chilterns End to a named purchaser in consideration of the Council receiving a capital receipt.

 

b)    Delegate authority to the Executive Director of Resources, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Finance, to consider officer recommendations and agree the final purchaser and sale price.