Issue - decisions

The Cabinet Member has endorsed:

1)   The decision that the County Council enters into an agreement for a new full repairing and insuring lease arrangement, with New River Retail, at an equivalent annual rent to the current lease without the planned rent decrease which was due under the existing lease in 2022, but  otherwise on comparable terms to the existing lease for a new location for the library in Burgess Hillat Unit 2 (being 2A, 2B and 2C), The Martlets, Burgess Hill, West Sussex, RH15 9NN;

2)   That the County Council enters into an agreement to surrender the existing lease with Mid Sussex District Council of the existing library location at the Burgess Hill Library, The Martlets, Burgess Hill, West Sussex, RH15 9NN simultaneously with the grant of the new lease; and that

3)   authority is delegated to the Executive Director of Place Services in consultation with the Director of Law and Assurance to conclude the terms of the lease with New River Retail.