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249 Willesden Lane is currently occupied by the Council’s Brent & Harrow Trading Standards Unit. In accordance with the Council’s strategy toward rationalising its office portfolio ahead of the move to the Civic Centre an opportunity has arisen to relocate staff into Brent House. This report therefore recommends the disposal of the freehold interest in 249 Willesden Lane.

(i)         that agreement be given to the sale in accordance with the terms set out in the confidential Appendix, Paragraphs 5.1 and 5.2 of the report from the Director of Regeneration and Major Projects;

(ii)        that the Assistant Director, Property and Asset Management be authorised to conduct further negotiations and secure a sale in the best financial interests of the Council in the event that any preferred parties fail to conduct the transaction with due diligence.

249 Willesden Lane was currently occupied by the Council’s Brent and Harrow Trading Standards Unit. In accordance with the Council’s strategy toward rationalising its office portfolio ahead of the move to the Civic Centre an opportunity has arisen to relocate staff into Brent House. The report from the Director of Regeneration and Major Projects report therefore recommended the disposal of the freehold interest in 249 Willesden Lane.

The Executive also had before them an appendix to the report which was not for publication as it contained the following category of exempt information as specified in Schedule 12 of the Local Government (Access to Information Act) 1972: 

Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).

RESOLVED:-

(i)         that agreement be given to the sale in accordance with the terms set out in the Appendix to the report from the Director of Regeneration and Major Projects at paragraphs 5.1 and 5.2;

(ii)        that the Assistant Director, Property and Asset Management be authorised to conduct further negotiations and secure a sale in the best financial interests of the council in the event that any preferred parties fail to conduct the transaction with due diligence.