Decision details

The Community Right to Bid is one of the community rights derived from the Localism Act 2012. The Right provides for voluntary and community organisations with a local connection to nominate an asset (land and buildings) for inclusion on a list of community assets. Should a listed asset come up for sale, voluntary and community organisations will have a chance to delay a sale by up to six months in order to prepare a bid to buy the asset.

In response to a nomination received to the Community Right to Bid from the ‘Friends of the High Grove’ the Area Committee has considered the information provided in the report, together with comments from the Area Manager from Hydes Brewery and observations from Hydes Brewery on specific points contained in the application form. An e petition to list the site as an Asset of Community Value signed by 414 people and a petition to keep the High Grove as a public house signed by 72 people had been submitted earlier in the meeting.

The Area Committee agreed that the High Grove Hotel, Silverdale Road, Gatley (‘the Asset’) be listed as an Asset of Community Value. The Area Committee determined that the Asset’s main use (i.e. not ancillary) had recently been or was presently used to further the social wellbeing or social interests of the local community and could reasonably do so in the future i.e. within the next five years.

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