City Centre South Land Acquisition and Compulsory Purchase Order
Report of the Director of Property Services and Development
(Listing Officer: A Hunt, Tel: 024 7697 6853)
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Further to Minute 65 above, the Cabinet considered a private report of the Director of Property Services and Development, setting out the commercially confidential matters relating to the proposed land acquisition and Compulsory Purchase Order for the delivery of the City Centre South Scheme.
RESOLVED that the Cabinet:
1) Resolves to make a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) pursuant to powers under Section 226(1)(a) Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and Section 13 Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976), in accordance with the procedures in the Acquisition of Land Act 1981, for the acquisition of interests in the land coloured pink and for the creation and acquisition of new rights over the land coloured blue on the draft CPO map attached at Appendix 1 to the report (the proposed Order Land) in order to facilitate the delivery of the City Centre South Scheme (the Scheme).
3) Authorise the Director of Property Services and Development, following consultation with the Director of Law and Governance, the Chief Operating Officer and the Cabinet Member for Jobs, Regeneration and Climate Change:
a) To continue to negotiate terms to seek to acquire all the necessary interests and rights in the Order Land by agreement alongside progressing the CPO;
b) To take all necessary steps to secure the making, confirmation and implementation of the CPO including in relation to making continued satisfactory progress in regards the funding of the Scheme, the publication and service of all notices and the promotion of the Council's case at any public inquiry, including but not limited to the steps in (c) to (m) below;
c) To make any necessary amendments to the draft CPO Map (within the boundaries of the pink and the blue land on Appendix 1 to the report) and/or draft schedules to the CPO so as to include and describe all interests in the land and new rights required to facilitate the carrying out of the Scheme;
d) To finalise and seal the CPO Map and the Order and finalise the draft Statement of Reasons, certificates and other supporting documents, to publicise the making of the CPO and to submit the CPO (with supporting documents) to the Secretary of State for confirmation and thereafter to produce (and where appropriate publish and/or serve) all other documents required in connection with the CPO;
e) To acquire interests and new rights in the Order Land either by agreement or compulsorily (including pursuant to any blight notices as appropriate) including conduct of negotiations, making provision for the payment of compensation and, where appropriate, provision for temporary and/or permanent relocation of affected parties and/or for cases of exceptional hardship;
f) To negotiate, agree terms and enter into other agreements with interested parties including agreements for the withdrawal of blight notices and/or ... view the full minutes text for item 70