Issue - meetings

This report will be subject to pre-scrutiny at a meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee due to take place on 8^th July 2021.  Any recommendations on this subject that are agreed at that meeting will be reported for the Executive Committee’s consideration in a supplementary pack.

The Head of Legal, Democratic and Property Services presented a report updating Members on the position of the former Upper Norgrove House site in Webheath.  This site had been the subject of a number of previous reports, most recently in 2019.  Unfortunately, the Council had not been able to achieve a desirable outcome through discussions with a number of local landowners, due to a range of complex reasons.  Therefore, the Council was proposing to take alternative action with the adjacent landowner.  There was the potential for the adjacent landowner to apply for planning permission for access to their land which would need to be considered through the Council’s planning process.

The Committee discussed the report and in so doing noted that a significant amount of work had been invested in trying to address the issues identified at previous Committee meetings when discussing the former Upper Norgrove House site.    Members expressed the hope that, should a resolution be found, action could be taken at the site that would benefit the local community.

RESOLVED that

1)        the advice document at appendix 1 to this report be noted;

2)        approval be given to a joint marketing exercise of the site known as Upper Norgrove Webheath with the adjacent landowner; and

3)        authority be delegated to the Head of Legal Democratic and Property Services and the Executive Director of Resources following consultation with the Leader of the Council to market and dispose of the site.