Issue - meetings
Urgent Business
Meeting: 05/10/2020 - Executive (Item 56)
56 Urgent Business - The Musketeer, Banbury - Emergency Accommodation Lease Agreement 
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The Chairman to advise whether they have agreed to any item of urgent business being admitted to the agenda.
Additional documents:
- Urgent Business - The Musketeers, Banbury - Appendix 1, item 56
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- Webcast for Urgent Business - The Musketeer, Banbury - Emergency Accommodation Lease Agreement
Decision:
Resolved
(1) That the entering into a lease agreement with the owners of The Musketeer in Banbury be approved.
(2) That it be agreed to proceed and enter into the lease on the agreed terms.
Minutes:
The Chairman advised the meeting that he had agreed to add one item of urgent business to the agenda relating to an emergency accommodation lease agreement with The Musketeer, Banbury. The matter had arisen after agenda publication and a decision was required before the next scheduled meeting due to the end date of the current agreement.
The Assistant Director Property Investment and Contract Management and Assistant Director Housing and Social Care Commissioning submitted an urgent report which set out that the Housing Team would like to enter into a private sector lease agreement with the Musketeer Motel in Banbury, a property which had been used for emergency accommodation for vulnerable households for several years in the form of a licence agreement. The lease-in value (£124.1k pa) was outside the delegated powers (£100k pa) of the Assistant Director Property Investment and Contract Management, therefore the approval of Executive was required.
Resolved
(1) That the entering into a lease agreement with the owners of The Musketeer in Banbury be approved.
(2) That it be agreed to proceed and enter into the lease on the agreed terms.
Reasons
The Council has been occupying the facility in the form of a licence agreement for the purpose of emergency accommodation since 1 October 2016. It is now felt that legally the arrangement fits better as a lease arrangement, given that the renting of the accommodation units is the majority of the value. This will secure sole use of the property for the council in discharging statutory duties to homeless households and avoid any possibility that parts of the property could be let independently to individuals who would not be placed by CDC.
The negotiations for a new lease agreement with the owners of The Musketeer achieved similar terms to the existing license agreement.
Alternative options
The Housing Team could not identify similar style and quality potential emergency accommodation immediately available in Banbury.