Issue - meetings

Recommended

Members are requested to:

       i.         approve the application to strike off and dissolve the Company;

     ii.         authorise the Company’s directors to apply to Companies House for the voluntary strike off of the Company; and

    iii.         authorise the Assistant Director for Legal Operations to take all necessary steps to facilitate the strike off of the Company.

Considered – A report of the Assistant Director Legal Operations providing an update on the current status of The Mercury Housing Co Ltd and seeking approval to take steps to apply for it to be dissolved.

The Executive Member for Finance and Resources, Councillor Gareth Dadd, stated that the company had been established by the former Richmondshire District Council over a decade ago to enable housing activity but had never traded and closing the company was a tidying up exercise. 

Resolved

That Executive:

1)    approve the application to strike off and dissolve the Company

2)    authorise the Company’s directors to apply to Companies House for the voluntary strike off of the Company

3)    authorise the Assistant Director for Legal Operations to take all necessary steps to facilitate the strike off of the Company