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Tangmere Strategic Development Location (SDL) - Selection of a Development Partner

Meeting: 04/09/2018 - Cabinet (Item 571)

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The Cabinet is requested to consider the agenda report and its six appendices (which are confidential Part II exempt* material and circulated within the agenda supplement and printed on salmon-coloured paper for members and relevant officers only) and to make the resolutions set out below:

 

(1)  That Countryside Properties (UK) Limited be appointed as the Council’s development partner to take forward the development of the Tangmere SDL.

 

(2)  That authority be delegated to the Director of Planning and the Environment following consultation with the Cabinet Member for Planning Services to agree and sign the finalised Development Agreement.

 

(3)  That officers and the development partner be instructed to continue dialogue with the landowners/site promotors to facilitate development of the site without the need for a compulsory purchase order if possible.

 

(4)  That the revised timetable be agreed for making the compulsory purchase order, if required, set out at paragraph 6.5 of the agenda report.

 

*[Note Paragraph 3 (information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information)) of Part I of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972]

Additional documents:

Decision:

RESOLVED

 

(1)  That Countryside Properties (UK) Limited be appointed as the Council’s development partner to take forward the development of the Tangmere SDL.

 

(2)  That authority be delegated to the Director of Planning and the Environment following consultation with the Cabinet Member for Planning Services to agree and sign the finalised Development Agreement.

 

(3)  That officers and the development partner be instructed to continue dialogue with the landowners/site promotors to facilitate development of the site without the need for a compulsory purchase order if possible.

 

(4)  That the revised timetable be agreed for making the compulsory purchase order, if required, set out at paragraph 6.5 of the agenda report.

 

Minutes:

The Cabinet received and considered the agenda report and its six confidential exempt appendices in the agenda supplement, the last of which had been revised and circulated in the second agenda supplement.

 

This item was presented by Mrs Taylor.

 

Mr Allgrove and Mrs Flitcroft were in attendance for this matter.

 

Mrs Taylor summarised the report with particular reference to sections 3, 4, 6 and 7. She outlined the process to select a development partner, the appointment of which was one of the recommendations in the report. She emphasised (as stated in sections 6 and 7) that while progressing the compulsory purchase order (CPO) option, CDC would continue to seek a negotiated solution if reasonably and timeously feasible with all the landowners. She drew attention to the revised timetable in section 6.5.           

 

Mr Allgrove and Mrs Flitcroft did not add to Mrs Taylor’s introduction.

 

Mrs Lintill enquired why the two lower scoring shortlisted bidders had been informed of the outcome prior to the Cabinet deciding at this meeting whether to approve the appointment of Countryside Properties (UK) Ltd (Countryside) and whether it was in fact necessary to make an appointment. Mr Allgrove explained that the Cabinet had previously authorised officers to seek a development partner and that bidders had at this stage been informed of the outcome of the scoring process. Mr Dignum felt that further clarification was necessary and so directed a short adjournment for officers to check the position. 

 

[Note The Cabinet meeting was adjourned between 10:47 and 10:54]

 

Mrs Shepherd confirmed that the Cabinet was required to approve at this meeting the appointment of the proposed development partner. No contract had been signed with Countryside and it was open to the Cabinet if it wished to decline to make the appointment and leave officers to pursue one of the other bidders.

 

Mrs Taylor said that she had been present at the selection meeting in early August 2018 as an observer. The process had been conducted in a very thorough and robust manner. In her view Countryside had given the strongest, most well-prepared and detailed presentation. All three bidders had been informed that the appointment would require the Cabinet’s approval.

 

Mr Wilding commented that it had not been easy to interpret the ownership details in the plan in exempt appendix 1.      

 

Decision

 

The Cabinet voted unanimously on a show of hands to make the resolutions below. 

 

RESOLVED

 

(1)  That Countryside Properties (UK) Limited be appointed as the Council’s development partner to take forward the development of the Tangmere SDL.

 

(2)  That authority be delegated to the Director of Planning and the Environment following consultation with the Cabinet Member for Planning Services to agree and sign the finalised Development Agreement.

 

(3)  That officers and the development partner be instructed to continue dialogue with the landowners/site promotors to facilitate development of the site without the need for a compulsory purchase order if possible.

 

(4)  That the revised timetable be agreed for making the compulsory purchase order, if required, set out  ...  view the full minutes text for item 571


 

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