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Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) Tangmere Strategic Development Location

Meeting: 06/03/2018 - Cabinet (Item 492)

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The Cabinet is requested to consider the agenda report and to make the following recommendation to the Council:

 

That the Council allocates a sum of £150,000 from the remaining Planning Delivery Grant Reserve and General Reserve to fund the continued work on the Compulsory Purchase Order in respect of the Tangmere Strategic Development Location.

Decision:

RECOMMENDED TO THE COUNCIL

 

That a sum of £150,000 be allocated from the remaining Planning Delivery Grant Reserve and General Reserve to fund the continued work on the Compulsory Purchase Order in respect of the Tangmere Strategic Development Location.

Minutes:

The Cabinet received and considered the agenda report.

 

This item was introduced by Mrs Taylor.

 

Miss Flitcroft was in attendance for this matter.

 

Mrs Taylor said that in the Chichester Local Plan the Tangmere strategic development location (SDL) had been identified for the provision of 1,000 homes and associated infrastructure. The parish council was supportive and had included the SDL site in the Tangmere neighbourhood development plan. Despite meetings between CDC officers and the landowners/promoters of the site, little progress had been made so far due to the consortium being seemingly unable to collaborate to deliver a comprehensive approach to the development. Since the site was essential to the delivery of the Chichester Local Plan housing requirement and a five-year housing land supply, the Cabinet had resolved in July 2017 to support the use of a compulsory purchase order (CPO) and specialist advisers had been retained. A timetable for the formal process to seek a CPO was in the report and section 16 notices had been served in order to identify ownership and interests in the land.

In parallel with this work, efforts would continue to be made to engage with the consortium.

In view of the very specialised nature of CPO work, an additional £150,000 was now sought in order to engage the appropriate experts. It was proposed that approximately £25,500 should come from the Planning Delivery Grant Reserve and £124,500 from CDC’s General Fund Reserves. It might be possible to recoup the £150,000 via CDC’s developer partner.

 

Mrs Flitcroft did not add to Mrs Taylor’s introduction.

 

There was no discussion of this item.  

 

Decision

 

The Cabinet voted unanimously on a show of hands to make the recommendation to the Council set out below. 

 

 

RECOMMENDED TO THE COUNCIL

 

That a sum of £150,000 be allocated from the remaining Planning Delivery Grant Reserve and General Reserve to fund the continued work on the Compulsory Purchase Order in respect of the Tangmere Strategic Development Location.


 

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