Decision details

To create a new Trust to administer and operate Lingfield Guest House

1.   That Surrey County Council’s (SCC) trusteeship of the Guest House Lingfield be transferred to “Lingfield Guest House Trust Limited”, a Company Limited by Guarantee to be incorporated with the sole purpose of acting as corporate trustee to the Guest House Trust.

2.   That authority be delegated to the Assistant Chief Executive to sign on behalf of SCC authorising the above transfer.

3.   That all assets, in relation to the Guest House Lingfield, including the Trust fund of £549,474 (subject to variation as described in paragraph 10 of the submitted report) that SCC holds, be transferred to the new Trust and that the agreed directors are appointed all subject to the grant of the lease.

4.   That the library will transfer to a Community Partnered Library arrangement from June 2016 onward.