A report from the Director of Regeneration and Environment is attached. This seeks authority for the council to use its powers to appropriate land for planning purposes to enable the Alma Estate development to proceed. (Key decision – reference number 4195)

(Report No.86)

(9.00 – 9.05 pm)

Councillor Ahmet Oykener (Cabinet Member for Housing and Housing Regeneration) introduced the report of the Director of Regeneration and Environment (No.86) seeking approval for the Council to use its powers to appropriate for planning of the Alma development site to proceed without frustration in respect of any claimed third party rights.

NOTED

1.               That the development was of strategic importance to the Council as the Alma Estate was subject to a major regeneration initiative.  

Alternative Options Considered: Not appropriating the land for planning purposes could result in serious delays if a third party sought to assert any rights over the development site. It would also put the Council in breach of the Development Agreement that had been entered into with the developer Countryside Properties.  

DECISION: The Cabinet agreed, in accordance with section 122 of the Local Government Act 1972, to resolve to appropriate the Council owned land contained in the Alma development site (as set out in Appendix 1 of the report) from its present holding purposes to planning purposes and to authorise the exercise of the Council’s powers set out in section 237 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 to override all adverse rights.

Reason: To help enable the development of the Alma development site the Council must ensure that the Council owned land within the site as set out in Appendix 1 of the report, would be held for the purpose of section 237 to enable the development to continue ahead without the encumbrance of third party rights.

(Key decision – reference number 4195)