Decision details

Notice of Confirmation - Reigate and Banstead Borough Council (Marketfield Way) Compulsory Purchase Order 2018

Decision Maker: Interim Head of Legal and Governance

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

On 18th May 2017 Executive authorised that the Council make a compulsory purchase order to enable the redevelopment of the site known as Marketfield Way, Redhill.

The following relevant recommendation formed part of that report, that:

(iv) the Head of Legal Services be authorised, in consultation with the Head of Property and the Executive Member for Property, to seal the Orders and to take all the ancillary or necessary steps, including the publication and service of all statutory notices and presentation of the Council's case at any Public Inquiry, to secure the confirmation of the Compulsory Purchase Order by the Secretary of State and the vesting of the land in the Council;.
The Secretary of State for Housing Communities and Local Government on 28 January 2019 confirmed the Reigate and Banstead Borough Council (Marketfield Way) Compulsory Purchase Order 2018.
Notices of Confirmation of the CPO must be served within 6 weeks of the Order being confirmed (or such other period as is agreed with the Secretary of State) on:

(a) On each qualifying person;
(b) In a newspaper circulating in the locality; and
(c) By notices affixed to the site.

Decision:

I (being the Head of Legal & Governance) authorise that the Notice of Confirmation of the Reigate and Banstead Borough Council (Marketfield Way) Compulsory Purchase Order 2018 be served in accordance with the Executive decision on 18th May 2017.


Reasons for the decision:

A Notice of Confirmation of the CPO must be served by the Council which is laid out by statute. This must be served on:
(a) On each qualifying person;
(b) In a newspaper circulating in the locality; and
(c) By notices affixed to the site;

Alternative options considered:

To not authorise that the Notice of Confirmation be served. This would mean that the CPO could not proceed and the permitted scheme would not be developed within the foreseeable future.

Contact: Caroline Waterworth, Commercial and Investment Director Email: Caroline.Waterworth@reigate-banstead.gov.uk Tel: 01737 276025.

Publication date: 13/02/2019

Date of decision: 13/02/2019