Agenda item

To provide an update on the project and to seek authority for officers to instigate Compulsory Purchase Order proceedings, in order to acquire the remaining privately owned properties on several identified sites. Appendices 5, 7, 8 and 9 to this report are designated exempt under Access to Information Procedure Rule 10.4 (3).

The Directors of Environment and Neighbourhoods and City Development submitted a joint report providing an update on the Beeston Hill and Holbeck and Little London PFI schemes, commenting on the Outline Business Case for Beeston Hill and Holbeck which had been made available to Members of the Board and proposing a number of key recommendations to enable the projects to progress.

Following consideration of appendices 5,7, 8 and 9 to the report designated as exempt under Access to Information Procedure Rule 10.4(3) which were considered in private at the conclusion of the meeting, it was

RESOLVED –

(i)  In respect of the properties at Little London:

a)  That the Director of Environment and Neighbourhoods be authorised to make a Compulsory Purchase Order in respect of such properties and interests as may be required subject to the Director being satisfied that the requirements of Section 226(1)(a) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) and the provisions of Circular 06/2004 are complied with.

b)  That officers be authorised to take all necessary steps to secure the making, confirmation  and implementation of the Compulsory Purchase Order including:

(i)  the publication  and service of all notices and the presentation of the Councils case at any Public Inquiry

(ii)  approving the acquisition of interest in land within the Compulsory Purchase Order either by agreement or by way of compulsory powers

(iii)  approving agreements with landowners setting out the terms for the withdrawal of objections to the Order including, where appropriate, seeking exclusion of land from the Order and/or making arrangements for the relocation of occupiers

(iv)  such other agreements including Indemnity and Development Agreements as may be necessary to promote the Scheme.

(ii)  In respect of the properties at Beeston Hill and Holbeck:

a)   That the development sites included in the PFI scheme be noted and the Director of City Development be authorised to enter into such negotiations as are required to acquire properties and interests within the area on such terms as she thinks appropriate in order to facilitate the Scheme, subject to the approval by government of the PFI Outline Business Case for Beeston Hill and Holbeck.

b)  That the Director of Environment and Neighbourhoods be authorised to make a Compulsory Purchase Order in respect of such properties as may be required subject to the Director being satisfied that the requirements of Section 229(1)(a) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) and Circular 06/2004 are complied with.

c)  That officers be authorised to take all necessary steps to secure the making, confirmation and implementation of the Compulsory Purchase Order including:-

(i)  the publication  and service of all notices and the presentation of the Council’s case at any Public Inquiry

(ii)  approving the acquisition of interest in land within the Compulsory Purchase Order either by agreement  or by way of compulsory powers

(iii)  approving agreements with landowners setting out terms for the withdrawal of objections to the Order including, where appropriate, seeking exclusion of land from the Order and/or making arrangements for the relocation of occupiers

(iv)  such other agreements including Indemnity and Development Agreements as may be necessary to promote the Scheme

(iii)  That the Director of Environment and Neighbourhoods, in consultation with  the Assistant Chief Executive (Corporate Governance), be authorised to make minor changes to the development site boundaries in both Beeston Hill & Holbeck and Little London where required as a result of further due diligence.

(iv)  That the Director of Environment and Neighbourhoods be authorised to make an application to Government for Decent Homes funding for refurbishment of the Lovells multi-storey flats.

(v)  That  the financial issues detailed in exempt appendix 9 to the report be agreed and that approval be given to the affordability of both the Beeston and Holbeck and Little London schemes and to the capital contribution for the Beeston Hill and Holbeck PFI scheme.