City Development Committee - 04/12/2000

At a MEETING of the ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE held at Dundee on 4th December, 2000.

 

Present:-

 

COUNCILLORS

 

George de GERNIER

Allan PETRIE

Iain M LUKE

John R LETFORD

Bruce D MACKIE

Jim BARRIE

Betty WARD

Roderick A J WALLACE

Julia M STURROCK

Jill SHIMI

Kenneth J N GUILD

Neil GLEN

Ian BORTHWICK

Derek J SCOTT

Elizabeth F FORDYCE

Robin PRESSWOOD

John CORRIGAN

Fiona M GRANT

Richard BEATTIE

Dave BEATTIE

David BOWES

Andrew DAWSON

C D P FARQUHAR

Mervyn J ROLFE

 

Councillor ROLFE, Convener, in the Chair.

 

The minute of meeting of this Committee of 13th November, 2000 was held as read.

 

Unless marked thus * all items stand delegated.

 

The Convener agreed that this item be considered as a matter of urgency in terms of Standing Order No 51(3)(b) in view of the timescales involved.

 

The Committee resolved under Section 50(A)(4) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 that the public and press be excluded from the meeting for the undernoted item of business on the grounds that it involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraphs 6 and 9 of Part I of Schedule 7(A) of the Act.

 

I ASSIGNATION OF GROUND LEASE, ESPLANADE, BROUGHTY FERRY, DUNDEE

 

The Director of Economic Development reported that the tenants of the premises on the Esplanade, which were held on a ground lease, had approached the Council with a proposal to assign the ground lease to another party and subsequently, the terms of the lease had been renegotiated and provisionally agreed.

 

The Committee approved the lease extension and remitted to the Director of Support Services to conclude legal formalities.

 

 

 

 

MERVYN ROLFE, Convener.