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Letting at Marriott's Walk

Meeting: 21/06/2023 - Executive (Item 54)

Letting at Marriott's Walk Witney

Purpose:

To request approval for a lease as set out in the report and to recommend to Council a new process to approve transactions at Marriotts Walk in the interests of commercial efficiency.

 

Recommendations:

That the Executive resolves to:

a)    approve the grant to lease at Marriotts Walk on the terms detailed in the report;

b)    recommend that Council amend the delegation arrangements to give authority to the Chief Finance Officer in consultation with the members of the Capital Programme Investment Board to approve future lettings at Marriotts Walk.

Additional documents:

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Minutes:

Councillor Duncan Enright, Deputy Leader of the Council and Executive Member for Economic Development, introduced and gave an overview of the report, which requested approval for a lease, as set out in the report, and to recommend to Council a new process to approve transactions at Marriott’s Walk in the interests of commercial efficiency.

 

Councillor Enright proposed that the Executive resolve to amend recommendation ‘b’, as originally stated within the original agenda report, to remove the words “in consultation with the members of the Capital Programme Investment Board”, to replace them with “in consultation with the Executive Member for Finance and the Executive Member for Economic Development”. This was seconded by Councillor Dan Levy, was put to a vote and was unanimously agreed by the Executive.

 

Executive Resolved to:

  1. Amend recommendation ‘b’ to state:

Recommend that Council amend the delegation arrangements to give authority to the Chief Finance Officer in consultation with the Executive Member for Finance and the Executive Member for Economic Development to approve future lettings at Marriott’s Walk”.

 

Councillor Enright proposed that the Executive agree to the amended recommendation, alongside recommendation ‘a’ as listed in the original recommendations listed within the agenda report. This was seconded by Councillor Dan Levy, was put to a vote and was unanimously agreed by the Executive.

 

Executive Resolved to:

  1. Approve the grant to lease at Marriott’s Walk on the terms detailed in the report;
  2. Recommend that Council amend the delegation arrangements to give authority to the Chief Finance Officer in consultation with the Executive Member for Finance and the Executive Member for Economic Development to approve future lettings at Marriott’s Walk.