Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Finance, Property and Transformation

Forward Plan Ref: 2025/151

Contact: Michael Smedley, Head of Estates

Michael.smedley@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Report by Director of Property and Assets

The information contained in the annex is exempt in that it falls within the following prescribed categories:

Paragraph 3 – Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person including the local authority

and since it is considered that, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, in that there is an expectation that consultation and negotiation should take place primarily away from the glare of publicity and public scrutiny in keeping with employment law.

The Cabinet Member is RECOMMENDED to:

a)    Approve a Direct Award to enter into a site Promotion Agreement for the development of Guydens Farm, Northfield, Oxford, with existing Promoter of Brasenose College’s land, Catesby Estates Limited; and

b)    Delegate authority to the Director of Property and Assets to finalise, and enter into, the Promotion Agreement in consultation with the Section 151 Officer and the Head of Legal and Governance.