Issue - meetings

To consider the Community Asset Transfer of the DRAM Centre.

Contact: Mark Varley, Asset Strategy

RESOLVED - That authority be delegated to the Service Director (Development) in consultation with the Cabinet Member (Finance and Regeneration), to (i) negotiate and agree terms with Moldgreen ARLFC (DRAM Holdings) for the grant of a 125 year lease for the DRAM Centre and (ii) instruct the Service Director (Legal, Governance and Commissioning) to enter into and execute all necessary documentation in connection with the grant of the lease.

(Under the provision of Council Procedure Rule 36(1), Cabinet received a representation from Councillor Munir Ahmed).

Cabinet gave consideration to a report which sought approval for the Community Asset Transfer of the DRAM Centre, Ridgeway, Dalton, to Moldgreen ARLFC Community Interest Company. The report advised that the transfer of the property would support the aim of allowing local people and communities to have greater control over the delivery of local assets and services.

Cabinet noted that the granting of a long leasehold would be in accordance with the Council’s Community Asset Transfer Policy 2020 and that a long leasehold would give the Community Interest Company the security to ensure that the building and sports pitches remain available to the local community for the long term future.

RESOLVED - That authority be delegated to the Service Director (Development) in consultation with the Cabinet Member (Finance and Regeneration), to (i) negotiate and agree terms with Moldgreen ARLFC (DRAM Holdings) for the grant of a 125 year lease for the DRAM Centre and (ii) instruct the Service Director (Legal, Governance and Commissioning) to enter into and execute all necessary documentation in connection with the grant of the lease.