Meeting Details

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.

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.

That City Council as Trustee:

1. Notes the report on the subject to Trust & Charities Committee dated 14^th February 2025 (attached as Appendix A).

2. Approves commencing the application to the Charity Commission to obtain necessary consent for the disposal of the Estate.

3. Approves the marketing of the Estate with a further report back to Committee (and if required Full Council), and the results of such marketing for consideration and converting the Estate to a monetary trust.

4. Authorises the Assistant Director Corporate Landlord to appoint a suitably qualified external consultant to progress the marketing of the Estate and if necessary, in accordance with the Councils Contract Standing Orders and in consultation with the Corporate Procurement Service.

5. Approves that the fee costs for the external support in respect of the disposal to be drawn down from Trust funds as available and from future funding linked the realisation of receipts arising from any disposal.

6. Authorises the City Solicitor and Monitoring Officer (or their delegate) to undertake all necessary legal steps to effect and formalise the above recommendations.