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Redevelopment of Former Parkside Middle School, Bromsgrove

Meeting: 06/02/2013 - Cabinet (Item 111)

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Minutes:

Consideration was given to the report on financial arrangements in respect of the development of the joint Bromsgrove District Council/Worcestershire County Council facility at Parkside, Bromsgrove. Together with a Civic Centre for the District Council and office accommodation for both Authorities, the facility would incorporate the relocation of the Customer Service Centre, Bromsgrove Library and the Registrar Service.

 

The report outlined the background to the proposal including the decision previously taken to develop the joint facility within the former Parkside School. There would be important benefits in relation to the Regeneration of the Town Centre and a significant reduction in this Council’s future running and maintenance costs in comparison to the existing Council House building. It was reported that the energy costs in particular would be greatly reduced.

 

The report referred to the work which was now required to develop legal agreements establishing cost sharing and future funding arrangements in order that the project could progress.

 

Members felt that it was important that the benefits which the development would bring were recognised.  

 

RECOMMENDED:

(a)       that the Capital Programme 2013/2014 be increased by a further £130,000 and that this sum be paid to Worcestershire County Council in order to acquire a fifty per cent interest in the former Parkside Middle School; and

(b)       that capital assets relating to the relocation of services from The Council House on completion of the redevelopment be released and these capital receipts (estimated at approximately £2,100,000) be used to support the capital expenditure previously agreed.

 

RESOLVED:

(a)       that the costs of the redevelopment programme for the Parkside building, to be led by the County Council, be shared on a fifty/fifty basis with a gross estimated capital cost of £6,900,000;

(b)       that this Council enters into a Development Agreement with Worcestershire County Council in respect of the procurement of the project, on the basis that risks and costs are to be shared equally  between Bromsgrove District Council and Worcestershire County Council; and

(c)        that a joint Management Agreement be implemented to create a Management Board to regulate the future use of the proposed joint facility and to ensure that running costs are apportioned in accordance with the proportion of floor space occupied.