Received a report from the Corporate Director of Resources on proposals in respect of the Warren Fields and former Hainault Road Allotment site which are currently under a 50 year lease to the Council that is due to expire in 2024.
Discussions have taken place with the landlord, Crown Estate Commissioners, and the management of Cranfield Golf regarding future proposals for the land and it is proposed that the Council’s current lease be surrendered and that an extended lease for a reduced area be granted back to the Council, the land to be used for new football and rugby pitches for Warren Comprehensive School. The remaining area will be leased directly by Crown Estate’s to Cranfield Golf for use as part of a new 9 hole golf course site, for which planning permission was granted by this Council and the London Borough of Havering in 2008.
Agreed, in order to assist the Council to achieve its “Clean” and “Prosperous” Community Priorities, to:
(i) Approve the surrender of the whole plot of land, known as Warren Fields and the former Hainault Road Allotment Site, subject to the simultaneous completion by way of a new lease to the Council of the area shown as “Plot C” on Appendix 1 until 2044;
(ii) Authorise the Corporate Director of Resources, in consultation with Legal Partners, to approve the final terms and conditions of the lease; and
(iii) Note that “Plot C” will be converted into a new football pitch and a new rugby pitch for Warren Comprehensive School, and Cranfield Golf will fully fit out and fence off the new school playing fields to the Council’s requirements at no cost to the Council.