Decision details

WOODSIDE FERRY VILLAGE - RETAIL CHALETS

Decision Maker: Assistant Chief Executive

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

This report seeks approval to grant a lease of land located adjacent to Woodside Ferry terminal to accommodate 20 chalets for temporary/pop-up retail use.

Decision:

That the Assistant Chief Executive:

 

(1)  approves in principle the grant of a two-year lease, excluded from the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, in accordance with the draft Heads of Terms attached to the report at Appendix A in respect of land adjacent to Woodside Ferry Terminal shown edged red on the plan attached to the report at Appendix B at a peppercorn rent to Woodside Area CIC to accommodate 20 temporary retail units, subject to advertisement of the proposal to dispose of the land (by way of short-term lease) as required by law and consideration of any representations made prior to a further final decision being made by the Assistant Chief Executive.

 

(2)  approves the grant of a non-exclusive licence for use of the land by Woodside Area CIC as a market during the period 1st-3rd May 2021 (3 days).

Reasons for the decision:

To enable an extension of the activities of Woodside Area Community Interest Company (Woodside Area CIC) at Woodside Ferry Village on land adjacent to Woodside Ferry Terminal, in order to stimulate footfall and provide activity that will contribute to the regeneration of Birkenhead’s waterfront. 

Alternative options considered:

The request from Woodside Area CIC follows their bid through the Town Deal fund to extend their activities and deliver a retail offer on underutilised land adjacent to Woodside Ferry Village. No other approaches for this land have been received.

 

  Other options would be to do nothing, or to promote the availability of the land as an opportunity for other organisations to consider. However, as Woodside Area CIC occupies the adjacent site at the Woodside Ferry Terminal and is the only organisation to have identified this opportunity, it is seen as an appropriate occupier of this site. Woodside Area CIC is reliant on Town Deal grant funding to develop this as a pilot scheme for an initial two-year period.

 

Publication date: 10/05/2021

Date of decision: 07/05/2021

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