Decision details
Bath Western Riverside
Decision Maker: Director Finance - Section 151 Officer
Decision status: Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
To authorise the land acquisition at Bath
Western Riverside and carrying out pre-development works towards
infrastructure. This will follow the execution of actions under the
Council’s Corporate Agreement with Crest entered in 2010 to
exercise its pre-emption to acquire undeveloped land within the
Bath Western Riverside project.
Decision:
In accordance with the delegation of approvals
set out in the Cabinet Decision E3168, the Director of Economy and
Growth in consultation with the S151 Officer, move necessary
provisional capital approved to full approval in the 2019/20
capital budget, including reflecting the funding approved by WECA
Chief Executive Officers on 2nd September 2019.
Alternative options considered:
Option 1 - Do Nothing – The Council
leaves it to the market to bring the land forward once viable to do
so. Given the complexity and expense of up front infrastructure and
remediation, this is likely to continue to stall development for a
number of years.
Option 2 - Do not exercise Council pre-emption - B&NES do not
exercise pre-emption this would not result in a satisfactory
delivery mechanism for the housing and regeneration objectives for
the site, risking their delivery.
Publication date: 21/10/2019
Date of decision: 05/09/2019