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To secure additional funding for places for Blue Coat School, Oasis Academy and Oldham Academy North.

RESOLVED - That: Additional funding for school places be approved.

The purpose of this report is to confirm that the subject property is surplus to the Council’s operational requirements and Officers are authorised to dispose of the property via private treaty at the earliest opportunity.

RESOLVED - That:
The preferred option / recommendation is to approve OPTION 1.
As part of the terms of sale, it is proposed that the Council seeks to recover its professional fees from the purchaser of £750 including disbursements. In parallel, a restriction on residential development for 10 years will be included on the title.

Approval has already been obtained for the council to fund the treatment of Japanese Knotweed on the Mersey Road North site, and therefore the purpose of this report is to approve the revised method of treating the Japanese Knotweed and to approve the Council's Development Partner directly appointing a specialist company to carry out the works.

RESOLVED - That:
The Council's Development Partner can directly appoint Japanese Knotweed Control to excavate, screen and remove the Japanese Knotweed from the Mersey Road North site.

To approve the acceptance of additional funding for the Youth Service to support the development of a District Youth Offer as outlined in the paper including the establishment of additional youth work posts for a period of 2 years to deliver the project activity.

RESOLVED - That: the preferred option will provide the opportunity to deliver a comprehensive youth work programme that will support the development of the District Youth Offer in Oldham.

To obtain approval for the adoption of highways as Highway Authority and to identify the likely associated revenue costs to the Council.

RESOLVED - That:
the highways listed in Schedule 1 of this report be adopted as highways maintainable at public expense

The purpose of the report is to seek approval for the Council to dispose of a long-leasehold interest in a vacant area of land at Broadway Business Park as shown edged red on the attached plan following a competitive tender exercise.

RESOLVED - That the Council enter into an agreement with Wantage Investment Limited based on the terms outlined in the tender particulars and outlined in Appendix Three.

The purpose of the report is to seek approval for the Council to sell the vacant, surplus properties at 56-58 Gibraltar Street to the Department for Education ('DfE') in connection with the redevelopment of the former Breeze Hill School. The properties are shown edged red in the plan attached in Appendix One.

RESOLVED - That the Council proceed to dispose of the Freehold interest in the vacant properties at 56-58 Gibraltar Street, subject to the provisionally agreed heads of terms set out in Appendix Two.

To progress the re-commissioning of work to re-platform CadCorp to later version

RESOLVED - That:
the funding from ICT Business Systems be released for the CadCorp upgrade.

To take advantage of the offer to create a 'Northern Roots Oldham' show garden at the 2020 RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival, as a means of promoting the development of the Northern Roots project and Alexandra Park ECO, while also enhancing the Growing Hub which needs to be relocated to facilitate the ECO.
Following the show, the garden will be relocated to become the heart of the new Growing Hub space at the entrance to the Northern Roots site. The creation of the new Growing Hub will mark the first tangible step in the delivery of both the ECO and Northern Roots project.

RESOLVED - that the application for a show garden dedicated to Northern Roots, underwrite the budget for the show garden up to a value of £80,000, approve the subsequent relocation of the show garden into the new Growing Hub on the Northern Roots site, and give permission to Council Officers to pursue a range of funding sources to finance the creation and relocation of the show garden.