Issue - meetings

To consider a report by the New Accommodation Project Co-ordinator on the delivery of the new headquarters.

approved the accommodation of all headquarters based staff in future years in buildings B, C, D and E together with the suspension of the marketing of the site of Building A, to enable the Chief Executive to investigate the available options for the disposal of Castle Hill House and report thereon to a future meeting; agreed the reservation of sums to meet contractual claims and to fund variations within the financial forecast and noted the requirement to revise the Medium Term Plan provision for the project at its next review.

By way of a report by the New Accommodation Project Co-ordinator (a copy of which is appended in the Annex to the Minute Book) the Cabinet were apprised of progress made to-date on the delivery of the new District Council headquarters and other accommodation. 

Having considered issues associated with the future use of Castle Hill House, the Cabinet

RESOLVED

  (a)  that the accommodation of all headquarters based staff in future years in buildings B, C, D and E be approved together with the suspension of the marketing of the site of Building A, to enable the Chief Executive to investigate the available options for the disposal of Castle Hill House and report thereon to a future meeting.

  (b)  that the reservation of sums to meet contractual claims and to fund variations within the financial forecast, as outlined in Annex A, be agreed; and

  (c)  that the requirement to revise the Medium Term Plan provision for the project at its next review, to accord with the financial forecast for Annex A, be noted.