Decision - Lease end handback 71-73 Grand Parade, Brighton

Brighton and Hove Strategy, Finance & City Regeneration Committee Decided 5 Oct 2023 for determination GET /api/coverage

Decision maker

Strategy, Finance & City Regeneration Committee

Report author

Martin Reid

Published

5 Oct 2023

Reference

7036

As published

the council's own words, unedited

Report seeks delegated authority for Exec Director Housing, Neighbourhoods & Communities to negotiate a lease end handback dilapidations settlement.

RESOLVED : That the Committee - (i) Delegated authority to the Executive Director Housing, Neighbourhoods and Communities, in consultation with the Chair of the Housing & New Homes Committee, to negotiate a dilapidations settlement with Southern Housing Group in relation to the lease end hand back of 71- 73 Grand Parade and to carry out works associated with the hand back process such as tenancy transfers. (ii) Agreed appropriation of 71-73 Grand Parade on its return to the Council from General Fund to the Housing Revenue Account at best consideration to be confirmed by an external valuer. (iii) Approved a capital budget up to the value outlined in the part 2 paper to be included in the HRA capital programme for 2023/24.

Parsed from the document

gpt-5.6-luna-2026-07-09 · 3131/1014 tokens · 8122ms · parsed 9 Sep 2026 12:10

Everything below was read out of a PDF by a model It is useful and it is not authoritative. The document it came from is linked in the rail, and where the two disagree the document is right.

The lease of 71-73 Grand Parade to Southern Housing Group has ended, and Southern Housing Group wants to hand the property back to Brighton & Hove City Council with tenants still living there. The report recommends delegating authority to negotiate compensation for dilapidation works, transfer the tenancies, appropriate the property to the Housing Revenue Account and establish a capital budget.

Recommendation

Delegate authority to the Executive Director Housing, Neighbourhoods and Communities to negotiate a dilapidations settlement with Southern Housing Group and carry out hand-back works such as tenancy transfers; agree appropriation of 71-73 Grand Parade from the General Fund to the Housing Revenue Account at best consideration confirmed by an external valuer; and approve a capital budget up to the value outlined in the part 2 paper for the 2023/24 HRA capital programme.

Financial impact

No specific amount stated; a capital budget is to be approved up to the value outlined in the part 2 paper, with any shortfall potentially funded by HRA borrowing.

Ward affected

Queens Park

Decision maker

Strategy, Finance & City Regeneration Committee

Date in document

5 Oct 2023

Stakeholders named

parsed

Southern Housing Group tenantsBrighton & Hove City CouncilSouthern Housing GroupHousing Revenue Account

Next steps

parsed

The Executive Director Housing, Neighbourhoods and Communities will negotiate a dilapidations settlement with Southern Housing Group.
The Council and Southern Housing Group will manage the proposed hand-back and tenancy transfer process, including tenant communications.
The property will be appropriated from the General Fund to the Housing Revenue Account at best consideration based on an external valuation.
A capital budget will be established in the 2023/24 HRA capital programme.
Southern Housing Group has indicated that it wishes to hand back the property on 2024-01-15.

Precedents

not built

"Decided elsewhere" is not built Finding the same decision in other councils needs semantic matching over decision text, which is part of the search rewrite. Until then, the council's own decisions list is the way through.