Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Growth & Infrastructure

Forward Plan Ref: 2011/115

Contact: Martin Tugwell, Deputy Director of Environment & Economy – Growth & Infrastructure Tel: (01865) 815113

Report by Deputy Director of Environment & Economy – Growth & Infrastructure (CA 14).

In order to meet the County Council's ambitions around localism and the 'Big Society' a number of properties are likely to be made available for use by community groups, either on a permanent basis or through a short term lease.

Requests for the use of County Council's property assets in this way are being channelled through the Big Society Fund.

In order to ensure that the Cabinet's consideration of any such proposal is undertaken on a consistent basis it is necessary to have in place an Asset Transfer Policy.

The paper presents the proposed Asset Transfer Policy for consideration.  Once agreed this will form the policy framework within which proposals for the transfer of property assets submitted through the Big Society Fund will be considered.

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to agree the Asset Transfer Policy set out in Annex 1.

RESOLVED:             to:

(a)               to agree the Asset Transfer Policy set out in Annex 1; and

(b)       to agree that, as a number of the Big Society Fund bids currently under consideration are time critical, the report to Cabinet in July should deal with those bids that are highly time critical on an exception basis to the agreed Policy.