In October 2018 Cabinet authorised Officers to seek conditional offers for a lease of the whole Look & Sea Centre building, for café/restaurant/bar (A3) use (excluding the youth hostel). The site has been marketed and offers have been received for an A3 use on the ground floor only. It is therefore proposed that Cabinet support the Look & Sea Centre building being leased on the revised basis that the ground floor remains in A3 use and provide a Lessee flexibility to find appropriate commercial uses of the upper floors, subject to planning.
This report is being presented as a matter of urgency for decision by Cabinet because the offers made are the only realistic chance of securing a Lessee that will operate the café/restaurant during the 2019 summer season. The lease needs to be commenced by 9 May 2019 to meet the terms of one of the offers made. The Chairman of the Overview Select Committee has been consulted on the proposals and has given his agreement.
The decision will therefore not be subject to the call-in procedure as set out in the Scrutiny Procedure Rules at Part 6 of the Council’s Constitution.
Decision type: Key
Reason Key: Expenditure > £500,000;
Decision status: Deleted