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Acquisition of Property (Toutley Cottage) to enable Provision of the North Wokingham Distributor Road

Meeting: 27/10/2016 - Executive (Item 74)

74 Acquisition of Property (Toutley Cottage) to enable Provision of the North Wokingham Distributor Road pdf icon PDF 152 KB

Additional documents:

Decision:

That:

1)        the voluntary acquisition of Toutley Cottage be agreed as set out in the report;

 

2)        the virement of £301k from the Winnersh relief road scheme be approved;

 

3)        it be noted that there is no impact on the ongoing scheme and design to the Winnersh Relief Road as a result of this virement.

Minutes:

The Executive considered a report setting out the voluntary acquisition of Toutley Cottage in order to facilitate the route delivery of the North Wokingham Distributor Road (NWDR) required as traffic mitigation for the North Wokingham Strategic Development Location (NW-SDL).

 

It was noted that when the Executive had approved the final route of the NWDR it was agreed that Toutley Road would form the route between Old Forest Road and the Matthewsgreen development.  A consequence of this was the need to acquire Toutley Cottage in order to construct the route. 

 

Following a query by the Leader of Council it was confirmed that if there was a significant delay between the acquisition of the property and it being demolished, to make way for the road, the property would be utilised as housing stock.

 

RESOLVED that:

1)        the voluntary acquisition of Toutley Cottage be agreed as set out in the report;

 

2)        the virement of £301k from the Winnersh relief road scheme be approved;

 

3)        it be noted that there is no impact on the ongoing scheme and design to the Winnersh Relief Road as a result of this virement.