Decision details

To provide feedback on the feasibility of the Queens Road 4 development and to ask Cabinet to agree the Queens Road 4 accommodation strategy.

RESOLVED:

1.  That the need to reprovide Sumner House for housing in line with the council’s housing policy priorities and as agreed at main planning committee on 28 March 2017 be noted.

2.  That 133-137 Queens Road, SE15 2ND Queens Road 4 (QR4) be confirmed as the location for service users of our targeted services currently based at Bournemouth Road, Sumner House, 47b East Dulwich Road, St Mary’s Road, Curlew House and Talfourd Place, and as an office base for the staff who provide these services.

3.  That officers be authorised to undertake the development of the QR4, subject to the council’s governance processes for expenditure, procurement and statutory processes such as demolition, planning and consultation.

4.  That following agreement of decisions 2 and 3 above, capital provision be made for the development of QR4 and that this allocation be incorporated into the council’s capital programme refresh report in February 2018.