Decision details

To agree to sell an area of inaccessible land that forms part of the garden of 5 Bridge Road, Little Sutton to the owners of 6 Bridge Road for the sum of £4000.

That a restrictive covenant is imposed as a condition of the sale, that the use of the land be restricted to the owners use in conjunction with the use as garden land only.

Currently, the garden of 5 Bridge Road, is separated into two sections, with an Anglian Water STW splitting the two areas. There is no direct access to this area of garden to the tenants of number 5. Previously, access could be gained to this area via an informal agreement through the garden of number 6. However, since this property [6] has now been sold this arrangement is no longer in place.

Whilst there was unformalised access arrangements, this was never used by the tenants of 5 Bridge Road. The area is currently overgrown with brambles and uncultivated.

As there is no direct access to the land, it will continue to be uncultivated and may well start impacting on the condition of the adjacent garden of 6 Bridge Road, giving rise to potential issues and complaints.

The sale of the land to the current owners of 6 Bridge Road, will remove from the Council a small area of HRA land which it has no access to, and the potential future issues of how to maintain the land.

Refuse to sell the strip of land - If the sale is not granted, the Council would potentially continue to own a small area of garden attached to the tenancy of 5 Bridge Road, which both the Council and its tenant have no right of access to.

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