Issue - meetings

The Executive are asked to consider report E/22/19.

The Executive Lead Member for Communities and Economic Development presented the report.

The report updated the Executive on the scope of the Selby Station Gateway Transforming Cities Fund Project and sought authorisations for actions relating to the delivery of the project including additional due diligence, land acquisitions, variations to access rights and associated budget approvals.

In attendance at the meeting for the item were Councillors S Shaw-Wright and M Jordan; the Members were invited to comment on the item by the Leader.

Members expressed their support for the recommendations and agreed the recommendation set out in the report.

RESOLVED: The Executive

1.     endorsed revisions to the TCF project scope;

2.     agreed to purchase or otherwise facilitate the transfer of land west of Cowie Drive owned by Arriva, so that Viking Shipping became the ultimate owner of this;

3.     supported the Council entering into a legal agreement to extend the rights over the land coloured purple on the Plan at Appendix B for the benefit of the Viking Shipping land;

4.     supported the Council entering into a legal agreement with Arriva to create rights of access for the general public for the benefit of the Selby railway station land. Such rights being over the land coloured purple on the Plan at Annex B were to allow the general public to pass from Ousegate, over Cowie Drive and into Selby Railway Station via a new eastern access;

5.     agreed to use £131.5k of funding that was previously allocated by the Council to purchase land owned by BDW and the Malt Shovel at Ousegate Wharf to:

a.      cover the cost of transferring land west of Cowie Drive to the Viking Shipping land, including legal fees, together with the cost of making the above changes to access rights;

b.     cover legal, advisory and monitoring costs associated with acquisition of the Cowie Drive access from Viking Shipping;

c.      cover any abortive legal costs incurred by the Malt Shovel; and

d.     contribute to potential landscaping enhancements on privately-owned land at Ousegate Wharf;

6.     supported negotiations to acquire the Arriva Bus Depot site (using funding allocated for this purpose within the MTFS), with a business case and report to be considered at a future meeting of the Executive. 

REASON FOR DECISION:

To authorise actions relating to the delivery of the project including additional due diligence, land acquisitions, variations to access rights and associated budget approvals.