Meeting Details

Meeting Summary
Economy, Skills and Culture Overview and Scrutiny Committee
15 Oct 2025 - 10:00 to 13:37
Occurred
Committee Room 6
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  • Attendance
  • Visitors
  • Declarations of Interests
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Documents

Agenda

Public Agenda
1 Notice of Recording/Webcast

The Chair to advise/meeting to note that this meeting will be webcast for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council's Public-I microsite (please click this link) and that members of the press/public may record and take photographs except where there are confidential or exempt items.

 

 

2 Apologies
To receive any apologies.
3 Declarations of Interests

Members are reminded they must declare all relevant  pecuniary and other registerable interests arising from any business to be discussed at this meeting.

 

If a disclosable pecuniary interest is declared a Member must not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must not remain in the room unless they have been granted a dispensation.

 

If other registerable interests are declared a Member may speak on the matter only if members of the public are allowed to speak at the meeting but otherwise must not take part in any discussion or vote on the matter and must not remain in the room unless they have been granted a dispensation.    

 

If it is a ‘sensitive interest’, Members do not have to disclose the nature of the interest, just that they have an interest.

 

Information on the Local Government Association's Model Councillor Code of Conduct is set out via http://bit.ly/3WtGQnN. This includes, at Appendix 1, an interests flowchart which provides a simple guide to declaring interests at meetings.

 

 

 

4 Requests for Call-In: Disposal of Surplus Properties (September 2025) and Approval for Disposal of JQ Assets (Cafe Block)

To consider the "Requests for Call-in" (the portfolio holder, Councillor Sharon Thompson, Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Economy and Skills and relevant officers will be attending the meeting).

The following documents are attached:

1. Cover Report

2. Appendix A – Call-In Procedure and Criteria Briefing Note

Disposal of Surplus Properties (September 2025)

1. Appendix B – Executive Decision Record

2. Appendix C – Request for Call-In (Councillor Martin Brooks and Councillor Sam Forsyth)

3. Appendix D – Cabinet Committee Property Report

4. Appendices DA to DE (including exempt appendix)

Approval for Disposal of JQ Assets (Cafe Block)

1. Appendix E – Executive Decision Record

2. Appendix F – Request for Call-In (Councillor Ken Wood and Councillor Alex Yip)

3. Appendix G - Cabinet Committee Report 

4. Appendices G1 to G5 (including exempt appendices)

  1. pdf Cover Report Requests to Call In_FINAL (206Kb)
  2. pdf Appendix A Call In Procedure & Criteria Briefing Note_FINAL (152Kb)
  3. pdf Appendix B _Disposal of Surplus Properties (September 2025) (584Kb)
  4. pdf Appendix C_Request for Call In_Disposal of Surplus Properties September 2025 (729Kb)
  5. pdf Appendix D _CCP Report - Disposal of Surplus Properties (September 2025) (174Kb)
    1. pdf Appendix DA – Sales Programme (80Kb)
    2. Exempt Appendix DB – Sales Programme (including financial information)
      • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information);
    3. pdf Appendix DC - Site Plans (10310Kb)
    4. pdf Appendix DD - Ward Member Consultation Matrix (167Kb)
    5. pdf Appendix DE – Equality Impact Assessment (225Kb)
  6. pdf Appendix E _Approval for Disposal of JQ Assets (Cafe Block) (416Kb)
  7. pdf Appendix F_Request for Call In_Approval for disposal JQ Asset Cafe Block (308Kb)
  8. pdf Appendix G_CCP Report Approval for Disposal of JQ Assets (Cafe Block) (174Kb)
    1. pdf Appendix G1 - Site Plan (415Kb)
    2. Exempt Appendix G2 – Recommendations
      • Information relating to any individual;
      • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information);
    3. Exempt Appendix G3 - Agent Recommendations Proforma Report
      • Information relating to any individual;
      • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information);
    4. Exempt Appendix G4 - Heads of Terms
      • Information relating to any individual;
      • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information);
    5. pdf Appendix G5 - Equality Impact Assessment EIA001140 (232Kb)
5 Economy, Skills & Culture Overview and Scrutiny Committee Action Tracker
To review and note the actions from previous Economy, Skills and Culture Overview and Scrutiny Committee meetings.
6 Minutes
To confirm the public minutes from the meeting held on 16 July 2025.
To confirm the private minutes from the meeting held on 16 July 2025.
  1. pdf ITEM 6 Economy Skills Culture OSC Public Minutes 16 July 2025 FINAL (217Kb)
  2. ITEM 6 Economy Skills & Culture OSC Private Minutes 16 July 2025 FINAL
    • Confidential – Other
7 Delivery of Commercial Asset Disposal and Corporate Landlord Programme – Quarterly Review

This report provides the sixth (2024/2025) update to the Economy, Skills and Culture Overview and Scrutiny Committee on the current progress of the Asset Disposals Programme. It also includes an update on the Corporate Landlord Programme Update.

David Harris, Assistant Director, Corporate Landlord will be in attendance for this item.

  1. pdf ITEM 7 Quarterly Asset Disposal Programme Report 15 October 2025 Final (190Kb)
    1. ITEM 7 Quarterly Asset Disposal Programme EXEMPT Appendix 1 Final
      • Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information);
8 Work Programme
The Committee to discuss and agree it’s work programme priorities.
9 Request(s) for Call In/Councillor Call for Action/Petitions Received (if any)
To consider any request for call in/councillor call for action/petitions (if received). 
10 Other Urgent Business
To consider any items of business by reason of special circumstances (to be specified) that in the opinion of the Chair are matters of urgency.
11 Date and Time of Next Meeting
To note the date of the next formal meeting is 14 January 2026 at 10am in Committee Room 6.

Declarations of Interests

Member NameItem Ref.DetailsNature of DeclarationAction
No declarations of interest have been entered for this meeting.

Visitors

Also in attendance at the above meeting were:

Philip Andrews, Head of Service
Ian Chaplin, Head of Service
Martin Connor, Asset Transformation Manager
Andrew Cox, Principal Surveyor
David Harris, Assistant Director, Corporate Landlord
Richard Lawrence, Executive Director, Place, Prosperity and Sustainability
Kate Rosamillia, Programme Manager (online)
Nick Rhodes, Programme Manager, Corporate Landlord
Aaron Samplay, Asset Transformation Manager (online)
Sushil Thobhani, Head of Service (Law)
 



___ Members of public expressed a desire to address the meeting.

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