Issue - meetings

[Report of the Director for Housing, Regeneration and Planning. To be  introduced by the Cabinet Member for House Building, Place-Making and Development]

The report will ask Cabinet to approve the appointment of the recommended contractor to complete a development of eight new Council rented homes at land opposite 16 Park Road.

The Cabinet Member for House Building, Place Making and Development introduced the report which sought approval for appropriation of land opposite 16 Park Road, N11 to deliver eight new Council homes for Council rent on Council land. The new homes would consist of two three-bedroom houses, five two-bedroom flats and one four-bedroom duplex apartment. The scheme was granted planning permission on 3 July 2020. If approved, the scheme would improve the existing public realm and deliver the first true zero carbon homes for the Council.

Cabinet Members welcomed the scheme, especially in regard to the zero-carbon development.

Councillor Diakides queried the delay between receiving planning permission and this decision and requested that future developments were dealt with in a timelier manner. Robbie Erbmann – Assistant Director for Housing – advised that the past year had been difficult in terms of delivering projects, but the programme would speed up over the next few months.

In response to Councillor Palmer, Mr Erbmann advised that whilst zero-carbon could not be achieved on every council development, the Council would ensure that the all developments achieved as close to zero-carbon as possible.

Further to considering exempt information at item 32,

RESOLVED

1.         To approve pursuant to the Council’s Contract Standing Orders (CSO) 9.07.01d, the appointment of Contractor A (named in the exempt part of the report) to undertake building works to provide a total of eight Council rented homes at land opposite 16 Park Road/Edith Road for a total contract sum as set out in the exempt part of this report and approves the client contingency sum set out in 1.6 of the exempt part of the report (Appendix 2);

2.         To approve the issuance of a letter of intent up to a maximum value of no more than 10% of the contract sum.

3.         To approve the appropriation of the land opposite 16 Park Road/Edith Road N11 highlighted in the red line boundary plan attached at Appendix 1 from housing purposes to planning purposes under Section 122 of the Local Government Act 1972 as it is no longer required for the purpose for which it is currently held, and for the purpose of carrying out development as set out in paragraph 6.4 of this report.

4.         To approve the use of the Council’s powers under Section 203 of the Housing and Planning Act 2016 to override easements and other rights of neighbouring properties infringed upon by the development of land opposite 16 Park Road/Edith Road N11, under planning permission Ref: HGY/2020/0589; and

5.         To approve the appropriation (after practical completion of the development) of the land opposite 16 Park Road/Edith Road N11 (edged red in the boundary plan attached at Appendix 1) from planning purposes back to housing purposes

Reasons for decisions

On 3 December 2019 Cabinet included the land opposite 16 Park Road/Edith Road N11 into the Council’s housing delivery programme. This scheme has subsequently been granted planning consent and is ready to progress to construction. This report therefore marks the third,  ...  view the full minutes text for item 535