Issue - meetings

To consider a nomination as an Asset of Community Value for 54 South Street (the former REDI Centre).

(Report attached)

Members considered a request to list the REDI Centre as an Asset of Community Value. The nomination had been received from Redditch Youth and Community Enterprise (RYCE) who had made the request to allow for it to remain as a community asset in the future. The Committee was reminded that it was for the Head of Planning and Regeneration, following consultation with the relevant Portfolio Holder, to make the final decision to list the building as an Asset of Community Value. Officers also confirmed the timescales involved in the process, with there being a six-week period within which community groups might confirm expressions of interest, to be followed by a four and a half month period to prepare a bid.

Members were happy to support the nomination presenting, as it did, the opportunity to provide a community asset in this part of the Borough and to bring a disused building back to use with the added benefit of the costs associated with retaining an empty building being removed. It was also suggested that Officers explore opportunities for use of the building in the meantime of any potential asset sale moratorium as a result of the nomination.

RESOLVED that

the listing of the REDI Centre as an Asset of Community Value be supported.