On 9 December 2025 Cabinet:-
(i) Authorised the Executive Director of Place,
Prosperity and Sustainability to negotiate terms of the acquisition of the
properties listed in the Private Report either voluntarily or through use of a
Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) if required including appropriate compensation;
(ii) Authorised the Executive Director of City
Operations to incur expenditure for the potential acquisition of properties up
to a total value of £3.319m from the Empty Homes capital receipts budgets, with
subsequent capital receipts being recycled within this programme;
(iii) Authorised the City Solicitor (Monitoring
Officer), where instructed by the Executive Director of City Operations, to
make a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) or CPOs under Section 17 of the Housing
Act 1985 for acquisition of the properties listed in the Private Report in
order to bring these properties back into use.
(iv) Authorised withdrawal of the properties from
the CPO in the event that, after making the CPO, the properties are improved
and re-occupied to the satisfaction of the Executive Director of City
Operations;
(v) Following any acquisition of properties
listed in the Private Report, authorised the Executive Director, Place
Prosperity and Sustainability to instruct the Property Sales Manager to either
dispose of each property on the open market on a leasehold basis or to a
registered provider with a condition that it is improved and reoccupied within
12 months to the satisfaction of the Executive Director of City Operations or
to retain the properties for council housing stock if considered strategically
appropriate;
(vi) Authorised the City Solicitor (Monitoring
Officer) to negotiate, execute and complete any documents required to give
effect to the decisions in the report; and
(vii) Authorised the City Solicitor (Monitoring
Officer) if granted power to do so by the Secretary of State for Ministry of
Housing, Communities and Local Government to Confirm the Compulsory Purchase
Order.
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