Cabinet Member for Finance and Performance and Cabinet Member for Housing and Safer Communities

The Cabinet considered the report of the Head of Property Services and the above Cabinet Members which set-out the options for the future of 17/17a Station Street, Sittingbourne.

Discussion ensued and the following points were made:  needed to know the value of the site; this proposal would result in a negative impact on Station Street, with the regeneration improvements being so close; a regeneration plan was needed for the whole town centre; the proposal limited future options on Station Street; and it did not fit in with the street scene.

The Cabinet Member for Housing and Communities clarified that the report was not actually making the final decision on the property, but would be getting consultants to look at the feasibility of the scheme.  He advised that further details on the financial side of the scheme were not necessary at this stage.

Resolved:

(1)      That the proposal to take forward the option to convert 17/17a Station Street, Sittingbourne to temporary homeless accommodation be approved, with a further report to Cabinet prior to the allocation of funding and award of contract.