Not selling county farms means that a Powys council £10 million annual asset sales target is “not achievable” – a finance chief has said

Capital receipts were brought up at a meeting of Powys County Council ’s Finance Panel on Thursday, November 20, where councillors and independent lay members discussed the Capital Budget update for Quarter Two.

The capital budget funds building and maintenance work for the council.

Treasury management accountant James Chappelle told the committee that “just under” £800,000 had been received by the council at the end of September from asset sales.

Mr Chappelle said: “There are further sales agreed but we don’t expect to get much more than £2.7 million by the end of the year.

“The moratorium on county farms is in place and is not allowing us to se

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