Sale of farm house and repossession of lease

Councillor Adrian Jones presented a report by the Head of Universal and Infrastructure Services that recommended that the Council enter into a Deed of Surrender of land included in the present agricultural tenancy at New Hall Farm, Hoylake, which was required for the proposed Hoylake Golf resort.  The report also recommended that the Farmhouse and outbuildings were contemporaneously sold to the present tenant and that the residual land be leased back to the tenant for him to manage until such time as it was required for the resort.

Appended to the report was a plan of the site.

RESOLVED: That

(1)  the Council enters into a Deed of Surrender of land included in the present agricultural tenancy at New Hall Farm, Hoylake, which is required for the proposed Hoylake Golf resort;

(2)  the Farmhouse and outbuildings be contemporaneously sold to the present tenant with deductions to be made as outlined in the report in respect of the compensation agreed and the outstanding repairs; and

(3)  the residual land be leased back to the tenant for him to manage until such time as it is required for the resort.