Decision details

For Cabinet to consider the Outline Business Case (OBC) in respect of the Corporate Accommodation Review and agree a singular preferred option to progress through to the development of a Full Business Case (FBC).

The OBC provides a further, more detailed, assessment considering both financial and non-financial aspects of the shortlist of future accommodation options previously agreed by Cabinet, which resulted from Strategic Outline Business Case, considered in September 2023.

The OBC refines the assumptions and develops the options further to reduce the level of risk associated with each and enables the identification of a preferred option to take forward to a FBC which delivers the Council’s aims and objectives.

AGREED to:

·         Note the content of the Outline Business Case.

·         Progress Option 1B iv and subject to that decision being taken, to authorise the development of a Full Business Case (FBC) in relation to that preferred option.

·         Delegate to the Corporate Director and S151 Officer in conjunction with the Leader of the Council the appointment of a consultant and associated allocation of funding necessary to complete the FBC.

·         Delegate to the Corporate Director and S151 Officer, in conjunction with the Assistant Director and Head of Property, authority to negotiate the terms and pricing of the purchase as required.