Issue - meetings

To consider the scheme to remodel Buxton House high-rise block, Huddersfield.

Wards affected: Newsome

Contact: Chris Kwasniewski– Service Manager, Development

Exempt information is detailed in the appendices to the attached report.

Consideration must be given to whether the public and press should be excluded from the meeting prior to the determination of the matter to enable the exempt information to be discussed by passing the following resolution: -

To resolve that under Section 100(A)(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following item of business, on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information, as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act

RESOLVED –

1)    That authority be delegated to the Strategic Director Growth and Regeneration to negotiate and agree terms to acquire the interests and rights identified in paragraph 2.10 of the report and as within the terms outlined in the Private Appendix.

2)    That authority be delegated to the Strategic Director Growth and Regeneration to negotiate and agree terms to acquire any further interests or rights subsequently identified which are required to deliver the remodel of Buxton House, provided that the values are within those contained in the Scheme of Delegation for Corporate Landlord & Capital, and that the cost of such could be met within the allocated project budget.

3)    That authority be delegated to the Strategic Director of Growth and Regeneration to take the necessary preliminary steps required for the Council to make a Compulsory Purchase Order (“CPO”) including:-

(i)            The service of statutory requisitions for information from owners/occupiers of land within the proposed CPO area.

(ii)          Instructing land referencing agents to begin liaising with affected landowners/occupiers and to identify the full extent of the land required (either to be acquired permanently or temporarily) and any rights to be acquired as part of the CPO (e.g. rights of way, light, support, easement, or restrictive covenants over the land required as required).

4)    That authority be delegated to the Service Director Legal Governance and Commissioning to finalise and enter into all appropriate contracts, deeds and documents required.

5)    That should it prove necessary to make a CPO, a further report would be brought for consideration.

6)    That it be noted the acquisition of required land interests, and any potential CPO process will be funded from the high-rise budget approved by Cabinet on the 27 July 2021.