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Salford
City Council - Record of Decision
 

I, Councillor
Tracy Kelly, Deputy City Mayor, in exercise of the powers contained
within the City Council constitution do hereby:

 

1.   
Approve the provisionally agreed heads of terms, to
surrender the existing lease and following the surrender grant the
current lessee a new 250-year leasehold interest of the subject
land and premises, namely the former Higher Broughton Health
Centre, Bevendon Square, Higher Broughton.
 

2.   
Authorise Shared Legal Service to progress and
complete the associated legal formalities and taking all the steps
required to give effect to the above recommendation.
 
The
Reasons are:
 
The
City Council granted the Secretary of State (SoS) a 99-year lease,
in 1986, for the subject site (edged red on the attached plan at
Appendix A and extending to 0.59 acres) for the provision of a
Health Centre. However, SoS vacated the property in 2017 and
subsequently assigned their leasehold interest to Memhay Limited (ML) for a premium
payment.
 
ML
have now approached the City Council to surrender their existing
lease and acquire a new 250-year lease with a non-reviewable
peppercorn ground rent, for a premium payment.
 
Head
of Terms to the proposed surrender and renewal have been
provisionally agreed and approval is now being sought to complete
the transaction.
 
The
above approvals will allow these proposals to progress.
 

Assessment of Risk: Low

 

The source of funding is:  n/a

 
Legal Advice
obtained: Yes - Kate
Bouchier, Shared Legal
Service
 
Financial Advice obtained: Yes - Thiamchan Forshaw, Senior
Accountant
 
Procurement Advice obtained:
n/a
 
HR Advice obtained:
n/a
 
Climate Change Advice obtained:
n/a

 
The
following documents have been used to assist the decision
process.
Public briefing report submitted to
Property/Regeneration Briefing on 24 April  2023
 
Contact Officer:  Alex Cox, Graduate
Surveyor, Regeneration Group                      
Tel No
0161 779 4837

 
This
decision is not subject to consideration by another Lead Member
/Strategic Director

The
appropriate scrutiny committee to call-in the decision is the
Growth and Prosperity Scrutiny
Panel.

 

Signed:
Councillor Tracy
Kelly
Deputy City Mayor
Date: 24 April
2023
 
 

 

*          
This decision was published on Monday 24 April 2023.

*          
This decision will come in force at 4.00 pm on Tuesday 2 May
2023 unless it is called-in in
accordance with the Decision Making Process Rules.