Decision - Home Purchase Policy Opportunity - Appropriation of 84 Coombe Road, Brighton

That the Housing & New Homes Committee recommends to Policy, Resources and Growth Committee that it:-

(1)            appropriates 84 Coombe Road, Brighton from existing purposes to Housing Act purposes;

(2)            agrees that the General Fund should receive the value of £290,000 in consideration for the appropriation at recommendation 2.1.1;

(3)            authorises the retention of the net capital receipt to be used for reinvestment by Families Children and Learning to support the integration of disability services by co-locating the teams in Wellington House; and

(4)            notes that the appropriation referred to at 2.1.1 above will take place when the Policy, Resources & Growth Committee makes the decision to appropriate (assuming that the Committee approves the recommendation) and that the funds referred to at 2.1.2 will be transferred following that decision.