Decision details

With reference to article 29 of the minute of the meeting of the Finance and Resources Committee of 21 February 2013, the Sub Committee had before it a report by the Director of Enterprise, Planning and Infrastructure which provided an update on the ongoing discussions with Glencraft Aberdeen Limited (Glencraft) concerning the company’s occupation of the premises at 132 Wellington Road.

The report recommended –

that the Sub Committee –

(a)       agree that if the sub lease governing the continued occupation of the premises was not signed by 10 January 2014, the Head of Asset Management and Operations and the Head of Legal and Democratic Services should be instructed to recover vacant possession of the premises; and

(b)       instruct the Head of Asset Management and Operation to continue without prejudice discussions with the head landlord, and if satisfactory terms could not be reached the Council might have no option other than to seek a sub tenant or assignee, which the head landlord could not reasonably refuse.

The Sub Committee resolved:-

to defer consideration of the report to its next meeting to enable the occupier to hold further discussions with the Scottish Government and Scottish Enterprise regarding its business plan and to instruct officers to provide an update on the negotiations at the Council meeting on 18 December 2013.