Decision

That Cabinet:

 

a)      
remove the capital allocation of £5.5m to
build a new swimming facility at Southwell Leisure
Centre;
 

b)      
retain the £5.5m in the Council’s
Capital Programme to be re-allocated to other health and wellbeing
schemes in the District;
 

c)       
give delegated authority to the Chief Executive in
consultation with the Deputy Chief Executive, the Assistant
Director - Legal & Democratic Services and the Portfolio Holder
for Strategy, Performance & Finance to negotiate the surrender
of the current lease with Southwell Leisure Centre
Trust;
 

d)      
as consideration for the surrender of the lease,
approve a capital budget of £247,000 to be paid to Southwell
Leisure Centre Trust for repairs to the current main pool and a
further £250,000 as a contribution to essential works to the
dry side at the Leisure Centre. The total of £497,000 to be
funded from the existing remedial works scheme currently in the
Capital Programme, with the remaining balance of £75,855 to
be removed from the Capital Programme. Any negotiated terms outside
of these financial parameters be brought back to Cabinet for
approval;

 

e)      
note the £25,000 budget, for design and
feasibility of a new leisure facility, approved by Cabinet on 19
December has not been expended to date and will be returned to the
Capital Feasibility reserve on termination of the lease;
and

 

f)        
note that the £12,300
to be funded from the Change Management Reserve for the engineered
solution to safeguard the structure of the current main pool has
not been expended and will be retained in the Change Management
Reserve on termination of the lease.