Issue - meetings

To seek approval to grant permanent vehicular right of access to the rear of 2 Swanbank, Congleton across Antrobus Street Car Park.

The Cabinet Member for Procurement, Assets and Shared Services considered a report seeking approval to grant a permanent vehicular right of access to the rear of 2 Swanbank, Congleton across Antrobus Street Car Park.

The former Congleton Borough Council had acquired land from the National Westminster Bank Limited in 1979. The land had been acquired to form part of what was now Antrobus Street Car Park. As a condition of the purchase, National Westminster Bank had retained pedestrian and vehicular rights of way over the land. However, at the time, no formal rights of way had been granted to allow access to what was to be the other section of the car park, thereby providing access across the car park and onto Antrobus Street for the Bank.

Congleton Borough Council had subsequently concluded that it had always been the intention to grant vehicular and pedestrian rights of access to the Bank.

JD Wetherspoon, which now owned the Bank building, had approached the Council with a view to formalising the access arrangements.

RESOLVED

That the Cabinet Member for Procurement, Assets and Shared Services approves the grant of a permanent vehicular right of access to the rear of 2 Swanbank, Congleton, in accordance with a decision originally taken by the former Congleton Borough Council, on terms and conditions to be determined by the Asset Manager and Borough Solicitor.