Purpose

This decision is one of several key decisions
to enable the council to purchase properties to support refugee
resettlement in line with the aims of the Refugee Housing
Programme.

Decision

That the Strategic Director for
Environment, in consultation with the Strategic Director of
Finance:
 

Note that appendices
one, two, three, four and five are not for publication on the basis
that they contain information relating to the financial or business
affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding
that information) as set out in paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A of the
Local Government Act 1972 (as amended).

 

Approve the decision
to acquire the properties and the associated expenditure outlined
in exempt appendices one, two, three, four and five against the
existing approved RHP capital budget of £16,800,000 and
transfer deed for the purchase of the properties.

 

Approve the decision
to enter into the contracts for sale and transfer deeds for the
purchase of the properties.