Decision - Charles Kingston Gardens Lease Acquisition

This report seeks approval for Housing Committee to delegate authority to the Executive Director Housing, Neighbourhoods and Communities to acquire the remaining term of the (125 year) long lease on Charles Kingston Gardens from Clarion.

RESOLVED: 2.1 Housing Committee recommends that Policy & Resources Committee delegate authority to Executive Director Housing, Neighbourhoods & Communities to accept a surrender of the long lease on Charles Kingston Gardens from Clarion Housing Association Limited to use as seniors housing, subject to all further enquiries to be carried out proving satisfactory. 2.2 That Housing Committee recommends to Policy & Resources Committee that the Council makes an offer of up to the agreed sum and approves a budget line to be included in the 2022/23 HRA Capital Programme detailed in the Part 2 report. That Policy & Resources Committee : 2.3 That Policy & Resources Committee delegate authority to Executive Director Housing, Neighbourhoods & Communities to accept a surrender of the long lease on Charles Kingston Gardens from Clarion Housing Association Limited, to use as seniors housing subject to all further enquiries to be carried out proving satisfactory. 2.4 Approve that the Council makes an offer of up to the agreed sum and approves a budget line in the 2022/23 HRA Capital Programme detailed in the Part 2 report.

The report proposed that Brighton & Hove City Council accept the surrender of Clarion Housing Association Limited’s long lease on Charles Kingston Gardens, a scheme of 18 sheltered flats, and bring it into council ownership. Subject to due diligence and resident consultation, existing Clarion tenants would become Brighton & Hove City Council tenants and receive seniors housing services alongside Elwyn Jones Court.