Decision details

Prior to the Local Elections, the Council consulted on proposals for putting in place additional local guidance – to supplement the broad criteria set by Government – for assessing nominations for local assets to be made ‘Assets of Community Value’.  The six week consultation closed on 24 March 2014.  The Committee are requested to note the results of the consultation and the links between the Community Right to Bid and the Council’s ambitions with regard to Community Participation and its Community Asset Strategy.  The committee are also asked to consider the nomination to list the new Barnet Community Centre as an Asset of Community Value.

The Committee considered the report.

Councillor Alison Moore moved that Recommendation 2 be amended as follows “That, in light of the confusion surrounding the Community Right to Bid, the Committee agrees the need for clearer guidance to be issued by the Council and uses the website and other appropriate social media”. The motion was seconded. Votes were recorded as follows:

The motion was carried.

RESOLVED –

1.       That the Committee notes the results of the consultation held prior to the election on the Council’s approach to Community Right to Bid and the issues that have arisen from administration of the Right locally.

2.       That, in light of the confusion surrounding the Community Right to Bid, the Committee agrees the need for clearer guidance to be issued by the Council and uses the website and other appropriate social media.

3.       That the Committee agrees that the Council, where appropriate, should make more strategic use of the Localism Act and the Community Right to Bid in order to achieve its ambitions with regard to community participation and to the developing Community Asset Strategy.

4.       That the Committee agrees that New Barnet Community Centre should be listed as an Asset of Community Value and added to the Register, in response to the nomination received in May 2014.