Decision Maker: St Edmundsbury Cabinet
Decision status: Recommmend Forward to Council
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
RECOMMENDED TO COUNCIL
That:
(1) the Section 151 Officer allocates £4,528,871 within the Council’s capital programme, initially financed from capital receipts, with a view to the project being funded by a combination of £1.4m from Taylor Wimpey, a £1.4m loan from New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership (NALEP), and a loan from Suffolk County Council. Following the conclusion of the negotiations with these parties and the outcome of the NALEP application, if there is any shortfall, this will be funded by the Council and recovered through the loan repayments by Taylor Wimpey, as set out in 2.9 and 2.10 of Report No: CAB/SE/15/021;
(2) all of the above be subject to the satisfaction of the Section 151 and Monitoring Officers, in consultation with the Leader of the Council; and
(3) subject to Recommendations (1) and (2) above, delegated authority be granted to the Head of Planning and Growth, in consultation with the Leader of the Council, to enter into a loan agreement with Taylor Wimpey to commission the electricity infrastructure works.
Report author: Andrea Mayley
Publication date: 26/03/2015
Date of decision: 24/03/2015
Decided at meeting: 24/03/2015 - St Edmundsbury Cabinet
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