Issue - meetings

Having considered an officer report, and a presentation by the Cabinet

Member for Housing & Planning, Councillor Paul Bell, the Mayor and Cabinet

agreed that authority be delegated to the Executive Director for Housing,

Regeneration and Public Realm, in consultation with the Director of Law,

Governance & HR, to grant a lease of the Sydney Arms to Lewisham Homes

Limited should this be required and to agree the final terms of the lease and

all associated documentation.

The report was presented by Councillor Bell who praised the Director of

Housing and her staff for moving so rapidly on a project which secured

accommodation for the homeless. He believed such projects were the very

ethos of the Council and displayed a core humanity.

Having considered an officer report, and a presentation by the Cabinet

Member for Housing & Planning, Councillor Paul Bell, the Mayor and Cabinet,

for the reasons set out in the report by a vote of 9-0

RESOLVED that authority be delegated to the Executive Director for Housing,

Regeneration and Public Realm, in consultation with the Director of Law,

Governance & HR, to grant a lease of the Sydney Arms to Lewisham Homes

Limited should this be required and to agree the final terms of the lease and

all associated documentation.