Agenda item

The Chairman introduced the report which set out the Full Business Case for the proposed regeneration of three main sites, plus several ancillary sites, with a view to submitting a planning application in Summer 2021. 

The Committee noted that the following additional documents had been published with the reports for this item:

1.    Public Interest Test – Proposed Hendon Hub Redevelopment;

2.    Addendum to Appendix 3 – Proposed Hendon Hub Redevelopment Equalities Impact Assessment July 2021; and

3.    Amendment to recommendation 10.d.

The Hendon Ward Member, Councillor Fluss, addressed the Committee for three minutes.  Committee Members asked Councillor Fluss questions. 

Chris Smith, the Assistant Director for Estates, presented the report. 

At the invitation of the Chairman, James Kennedy, Deputy CEO of Middlesex University, addressed the Committee.

Officers from the Growth and Libraries services answered questions from the Committee. 

During the debate on the item, Councillor Rajput declared a non-pecuniary interest as a Council appointed trustee of Nicholl & Daniel Homes Charity which owned property in the proposed regeneration area.  He reported that he had taken advice from the Monitoring Officer and Governance who had confirmed that the interest was non-pecuniary and he would remain and vote on the item.

Councillor Barry Rawlings MOVED that the item be DEFERRED to a future meeting of the Policy & Resources Committee to enable the Council to obtain counsel’s opinion on legal points raised by a resident in relation to the release of information as any delay to the project could be costly. 

Upon the deferral being put to the vote, the vote was recorded as follows:

The deferral was therefore LOST.

Upon the result of the vote being declared, Committee Members requested that the vote be recorded.  Committee Members voted as follows:

In accordance with Article 2.3 (e) of the Constitution (see section 5.4.1), three Members of the Committee requested to REFER the decision to Council for determination.  The Chairman advised the Committee that the item would be referred to Full Council to make the decision.  In making the referral, the Committee requested details of comments received from Historic England since the publication of the committee papers be reported to Council.

Following the referral, the Chairman called an indicative vote on the item.  Upon the recommendations, including the addendums and amendments reported to the Committee, being put to the vote, the vote was recorded as follows:

The indicate vote on the recommendations set out the report and the additional addendums and amendments was therefore APPROVED.

Upon the result of the vote being declared, Committee Members requested that the vote be recorded.  Committee Members voted as follows:

The item had been REFERRED to the next available meeting of Full Council for decision.