Decision details

The Cabinet will be asked to consider the different delivery options suitable for Gascoigne Goresbrook and Leys Estates exploring how residents will be involved

Further to Minute 49 (2 November 2010), the Cabinet Member for Housing presented a report on the disposal and delivery options for the Goresbrook Village and Leys Estates, which represented two of the three sites in the current Estate Renewal Programme.

The Cabinet Member outlined the main aims of the programme and its funding, which included an £18.3m grant from the Homes and Communities Agency, and referred to the proposed procurement of development partners to deliver the two schemes.

Cabinet agreed:-

  (i)  That the preferred delivery option for the Goresbrook Village Estate be to procure a development partner through the Homes and Communities Agency Development Partner Panel, with the final terms to be agreed under delegated authority by the Corporate Director of Finance and Resources, advised by the Corporate Director of Customer Services and the Divisional Director of Legal and Democratic Services, and in consultation with the Lead Members for Housing and Regeneration;

  (ii)  That the preferred delivery option for the Leys Estate be to procure a development partner through the City West ‘Frameworx’ Development Partner Panel, with the final terms to be agreed under delegated authority by the Corporate Director of Finance and Resources, advised by the Corporate Director of Customer Services and the Divisional Director of Legal and Democratic Services, and in consultation with the Lead Members for Housing and Regeneration; and

 (iii)  The indicative benchmark tenure mix for each site to be used in the development and project briefs as set out in section 2 of the report.