Decision details

The Cabinet will be asked to approve proposals relating to the disposal of the Council-owned formerMayesbrook nursing home, Bevan Avenue, Barking

The Cabinet Member for Finance presented a report on proposals to market the former Mayesbrook Nursing Home site for disposal.

The Cabinet Member advised that the site was no longer required for its former purposes and had been identified as suitable for new housing.  The sale of the site would enable the Council to make efficiency savings through the cessation of the costs associated with owning the property and would enable transformation of a site that presently featured a derelict building into a residential development, providing a mixture of dwelling types.

The Cabinet Member outlined the three options on which offers would be invited and confirmed that Ward Councillors would continue to be consulted on the project.

Cabinet agreed:

  (i)  The disposal of the Council’s freehold interest in the former Mayesbrook Nursing Home site shown edged red on the plan at Appendix 1 to the report;

  (ii)  To authorise the Chief Executive, in consultation with the Divisional Director of Finance and the Head of Legal and Democratic Services, to negotiate terms for disposal of the freehold interest in the property, for either a capital receipt at the maximum price that can reasonably be negotiated (subject to the proposed sale being at open market value) or the provision of housing units to the Council, with no capital receipt, in exchange for the property; and

 (iii)  That the decision to dispose of the property be the subject of a further report to the Cabinet in the light of the offers received.