Issue - meetings

That:

1)        it be noted that the Service Manager Strategic Property is to discuss the acquisition of land for the implementation of the infrastructure necessary to facilitate the development of the strategic development locations and that the final details negotiated (area and values etc.) will be reported back to Executive;

2)        it be agreed in principle that in default of agreed acquisition, appropriate statutory powers be used to deliver comprehensive planning development of the SDLs;

3)         it be noted that this recommendation is subject to referral back to Executive at the appropriate time for detailed authority setting out inter alia:

a)    details of the appropriate enabling statutory powers of compulsory acquisition,

b)    areas and value of land to be acquired compulsorily,

c)    areas of land over which interests are to be acquired;  and

d)    where appropriate indemnity agreements with developers to indemnify the Council against all costs relating to the CPO process, including inter alia public inquiry costs and acquisition/compensation costs.

The Executive considered a report relating to the in principle use of compulsory purchase powers to acquire land which could not be purchased through private treaty.

The Executive Member for Planning and Regeneration explained that the powers would provide the Council with the mandate in the Strategic Development Locations to seek indemnity agreements with the developers which would mean that they would pay for the process.  Councillor Ashwell reiterated that the decision only agreed the principle and any individual compulsory purchase orders would come back to the Executive for approval.

RESOLVED that:

1)        it be noted that the Service Manager Strategic Property is to discuss the acquisition of land for the implementation of the infrastructure necessary to facilitate the development of the strategic development locations and that the final details negotiated (area and values etc.) will be reported back to Executive;

2)        it be agreed in principle that in default of agreed acquisition, appropriate statutory powers be used to deliver comprehensive planning development of the SDLs;

3)         it be noted that this recommendation is subject to referral back to Executive at the appropriate time for detailed authority setting out inter alia:

a)    details of the appropriate enabling statutory powers of compulsory acquisition,

b)    areas and value of land to be acquired compulsorily,

c)    areas of land over which interests are to be acquired;  and

d)    where appropriate indemnity agreements with developers to indemnify the Council against all costs relating to the CPO process, including inter alia public inquiry costs and acquisition/compensation costs.