Agenda item

This report represents the sixth phase of an ongoing review of the Council’s land and property assets in accordance with the Asset Management Plan. This phase of the Land Holdings Review covers 8 sites across the District.

The Estates and Facilities Manager introduced a report which detailed the sixth phase of an ongoing review of the Council’s land and property assets in accordance with the Asset Management Plan (AMP). This phase of the Land Holdings Review covered eight sites across the District.

The report explained the intentions of the AMP 2019-2023 to set out the Council’s strategic approach to the management of its land and property and to provide a framework within which property asset decisions could be made in support of the Council’s corporate aims and objectives. The AMP recommended that any unused or surplus buildings and land by reviewed to establish whether they should be sold or whether they could contribute to the Council’s key objectives of economic development and affordable housing or whether they could form part of a Community Asset Transfer.

The details of, and recommendations for, the eight sites were included within the report and appendix 1. Within the recommendations, multiple options were presented for several of the sites. Each of the sites were voted on individually, the decisions are outlined below.

It was moved by Councillor Steve Flitter, seconded by Councillor Geoff Bond and

RESOLVED (unanimously)

That only the part of Site No. 8 (Allotments and adjoining land at Church Road, Darley Dale) currently occupied by Darley Dale Town Council be transferred as a Community Asset Transfer to Darley Dale Town Council as per the November 2022 resolution.

The Chair declared the motion CARRIED.

It was moved by Councillor Geoff Bond, seconded by Councillor David Hughes and

RESOLVED (unanimously)

That site No. 1, Station House, Matlock, be declared as surplus to requirements and that the Estates and Facilities Manager be delegated to negotiate and agree a leasehold disposal of the property on suitable market terms (including, if appropriate, a payment towards the Council’s reasonable legal and surveyors’ costs) for a residential related use with Peak Rail PLC.

The Chair declared the motion CARRIED.

It was moved by Councillor Steve Flitter, seconded by Councillor Geoff Bond and

RESOLVED (unanimously)

That site No. 2, Down Station Building, Darley Dale, be declared as surplus to requirement and that the Estates and Facilities Manager be delegated to negotiate and agree a leasehold disposal of the property on suitable market terms (including, if appropriate, a payment towards the Council’s reasonable legal and surveyors’ costs) with Peak Rail PLC for an appropriate use in connection with the railway.

The Chair declared the motion CARRIED.

It was moved by Councillor David Hughes, seconded by Councillor Neil Buttle and

RESOLVED (unanimously)

That the decision on the disposal of Site No. 3, Land between 44 and 48 High St at Bonsall, be deferred for 6 months in order to further explore options for the use of the site for the building of affordable or social housing and should that use not prove possible after the 6 month deferral, that the site be declared as surplus to requirements and offered for freehold sale by public auction as one lot with a reserve to be set by the Estate & Facilities Manager in consultation with the auctioneer depending on interest generated with a buyer’s premium to apply to cover the Council’s costs.

The Chair declared the motion CARRIED.

It was moved by Councillor Steve Flitter, seconded by Councillor Neil Buttle and

RESOLVED (unanimously)

That the decision on the disposal of Site No. 4, Land between 13 and 15 Peats Close at Kirk Ireton, be deferred for 6 months in order to further explore options for the use of the site for the building of affordable or social housing and should that use not prove possible after the 6 month deferral, that the site be declared as surplus to requirements and offered for freehold sale by public auction as one lot with a reserve to be set by the Estate & Facilities Manager in consultation with the auctioneer depending on interest generated with a buyer’s premium to apply to cover the Council’s costs.

The Chair declared the motion CARRIED.

It was moved by Councillor Geoff Bond, seconded by Councillor Roger Shelley and

RESOLVED (unanimously)

That site No. 5, Land at Fishpond Meadows, Ashbourne be transferred to Ashbourne Town Council on the terms outlined in Appendix 1 of the report as a Community Asset Transfer by way of long lease.

The Chair declared the motion CARRIED.

It was moved by Councillor Geoff Bond, seconded by Councillor David Hughes and

RESOLVED (unanimously)

That site no 6, part of land off Clifton Road, Ashbourne be transferred to the NHS on the terms outlined in Appendix 1 of the report by way of long lease.

The Chair declared the motion CARRIED.

It was moved by Councillor David Hughes, seconded by Councillor Simon Ripton and

RESOLVED (unanimously)

1. That in respect of Site no. 7, Monsal Head Car Park, a new 10-year lease be taken from Little Longstone Parish Meeting by the District on the terms outlined in Appendix 1 of the report.

2. That it is noted that the disposal of site nos. 5,6 and 8. above (either by lease or freehold title transfer) comprise undervalue transactions permitted under the General Disposal Consent 2003.

3. That the responsibility for legal and surveyors’ costs in respect of all the transactions above, as detailed in Appendix. 1 of the report, is noted.

The Chair declared the motion CARRIED.