Issue - meetings

This report considers a proposal from the Gauntlett Boxing Club (an existing Council tenant at the Harrier Centre, Poole Recreation Ground) to open an additional facility at Horton Country Park.

A planning application has been submitted by the Gauntlett Boxing Club for a change of use and is awaiting decision.  

Any proposed change of use to a Council owned property must be exercised by the Strategy and Resources Committee (Appendix 5: Delegation of Property Functions – Asset Management Plan).

The Committee:

(1)          Approved the proposed change of use of part of the New Room, Horton Country Park to a boxing club (Use D) (For the purpose of the avoidance of doubt, this is subject to the grant of satisfactory planning permission by the Council acting in its separate capacity as the Local Planning Authority);

(2)          Authorised the Head of Property and Regeneration, in consultation with the Chief Legal Officer, to conclude negotiations with the Gauntlett Boxing Club for a new commercial lease as they think fit.

The Committee received and considered a report that considered a proposal from the Gauntlett Boxing Club (an existing Council tenant at the Harrier Centre in Poole Road Recreation Ground) to open an additional facility in Horton Country Park.

It was clarified that the necessary planning application had been approved but that, in accordance with the Council’s Asset Management Plan, this Committee was required to approve any change of use to Council property.

The report highlighted a number of benefits to the proposal, not in the least investment in a Council owned property asset without risk to the Council.

Accordingly, the Committee:

(1)          Approved the proposed change of use of part of the New Room, Horton Country Park to a boxing club (Use D) (For the purpose of the avoidance of doubt, this permission was an independent requirement to the requirement for planning permission from the Council acting in its separate capacity as the Local Planning Authority);

(2)          Authorised the Head of Property and Regeneration, in consultation with the Chief Legal Officer, to conclude negotiations with the Gauntlett Boxing Club for a new commercial lease as they think fit.