Agenda and draft minutes

Executive Sub-Committee for Property - Wednesday 5th February, 2025 4.30 pm

Venue: Mandela Room (Municipal Buildings)

Contact: Scott Bonner/ Chris Lunn (01642 729708/ 729742) 

Items
No. Item

24/5

Declarations of Interest

Minutes:

There were no declarations of interest received at this point in the meeting.

24/6

The Disposal of Land at Hemlington Grange South - PART A pdf icon PDF 111 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Executive Member for Development and Executive Member for Finance submitted a report for Executive consideration.

 

The report sought Executive’s consideration of the bids received by the Council and to approve the disposal of the site to the preferred bidder to conclude the process and remove the designation of associated land as Public Open Space.

 

The report was considered by the Executive Sub Committee for Property as per the Council’s Scheme of Delegation, namely that the Executive Sub-Committee for Property is delegated the power to consider and determine the acquisition and disposal of assets (including land and buildings), other than equipment, plant and machinery for resale, in accordance with the requirements of Financial Regulations and Contract Standing Orders.

 

In July 2022, Executive approved the marketing and disposal of Hemlington Grange South site, for the purpose of enabling housing development.

 

Located towards the southern fringe of Middlesbrough, the site was a vacant, 7.05-hectare (ha) Council-owned site and was allocated within the adopted Housing Local Plan (2014). Development Guidance was drafted for the site, and this was subsequently adopted in October 2020 following public consultation. The development guidance provided design principles and expectations with regards to how the scheme should come forward in the future. The Development Guidance was provided to bidders as part of the tender pack when marketing the site; so that any bids would be truly reflective of the standard expected on the site.

 

The site constituted the southeastern most section of the wider Hemlington Grange site, which was also allocated in the adopted Middlesbrough Housing Local Plan as a strategic urban extension comprising 1,230 dwellings. To date, detailed planning permission has been granted for 846 dwellings on the Hemlington Grange site, of which 699 had been completed and occupied. The Council was aware that the site was an extremely popular and successful development.

 

The site was ideally situated to enjoy the surrounding coastline and countryside with Saltburn by the Sea located around 14 miles to the east and the North York Moors National Park a relatively short drive to the south.

 

The site benefits from outline planning approval, which was granted in April 2024, prior to site marketing. The site was estimated to be able to deliver up to a total of 150 units, subject to Planning, creating a high-quality development.

 

The Ward Member for Stainton and Thornton was invited to speak on the matter and requested that any development taking place on the site needed to be respectful of existing residents. It was clarified that such considerations would be examined as part of the Planning process.

 

The Mayor suggested that a package be compiled for future developers that encouraged consideration of existing residents be taken into account when building on the site.

 

AGREED that Executive:

 

1.    Note the information contained in Part A of the report.

2.    Take the decision once all the exempt information contained within Part B of the report had been considered.

 

OPTIONS

 

The Council had the option not to dispose of the land,  ...  view the full minutes text for item 24/6

24/7

Any other urgent items which in the opinion of the Chair, may be considered.

Minutes:

None.

24/8

Exclusion of Press and Public

To consider passing a Resolution Pursuant to Section 100A (4) Part 1 of the Local Government Act 1972 excluding the press and public from the meeting during consideration of the following items on the grounds that if present there would be disclosure to them of exempt information falling within paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act and the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

Minutes:

ORDERED that the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following items on the grounds that, if present, there would be disclosure to them of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 and that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighed the public interest in disclosing the information.

24/9

EXEMPT - The Disposal of Land at Hemlington Grange South - PART B

This item is exempt as publicly identifying the buyer’s names, the purchase prices and the valuations placed on the land would compromise the Council’s ability to complete the sale and would restrict values upon any further transactions if the sale to the proposed buyers fell through.

Minutes:

The Executive Member for Development submitted a report for Executive’s consideration.

 

ORDERED

 

That the recommendations of the report be approved.

 

REASONS

 

The decision was supported by the following reason:

 

For reasons outlined in the report.