Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Decision made
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Cabinet is asked to consider proposals to take
the Ranscombe Farm project forward.
The Cabinet granted delegated authority to the
Director of Finance and Corporate Services, in consultation with
the Director of Development and Environment, on the best terms
reasonably obtainable to:
a) Grant a 25-year Head Lease to Plantlife International of 185ha
of Ranscombe Farm.
b) Execute the sale of 44ha of land at Ranscombe Farm to Plantlife
International.
c) Take a lease back of the 44ha site and sublet it back to
Plantlife.
d) To ring fence the capital receipt (£225,000) received from
the sale for re-investment into the Ranscombe Farm Country Park
project.
These decisions are made in support of the
Council's policy to develop Ranscombe Farm as a new Country Park,
as agreed in the Local Plan policy L9 and in the Community Plan
(2004). They rationalise and formalise arrangements for the
on-going management of the park and also secure the remainder of
the Ranscombe Farm implementation budget from the ODPM.
Publication date: 28/09/2004
Date of decision: 28/09/2004
Decided at meeting: 28/09/2004 - Cabinet
Effective from: 07/10/2004
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