That Cabinet approve delegation to the Director - Housing, Health & Wellbeing to:
a) exercise the Council’s powers pursuant to Section 17 of the Housing Act 1985 and Section 13 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 to make a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) in order to acquire such interests and rights in or over the land shown edged red on the plan at Appendix A (the “Land”) or any part of the Land required in order to facilitate the Yorke Drive Regeneration project (the “Scheme”);
b) acquire all interests within the Land as may be necessary to facilitate the Scheme, either by agreement or compulsorily; including entering into negotiations and arrangements with any third parties for the acquisition of their land interests; and
c) take all steps incidental, conducive or consequential to the making of, confirmation and implementation of the CPO or to the voluntary acquisition of the Land or any part it including (but not limited to):
1. making further amendments to the draft Statement of Reasons;
2. issuing and serving all required notices (including press, site, and individual notices);
3. the preparation and presentation of the Council’s case at any future local public inquiry;
4. approving the terms for the acquisition of legal interests in the Land
5. approving agreements with landowners setting out the terms for the withdrawal of any objections to the CPO including (but not limited to) the exclusion of land from the Order
6. the payment of compensation and dealing with any blight notices served in connection with the CPO
7. making any necessary additions, deletions, or amendments to the Land and to seeking any necessary modifications to the CPO and any CPO maps; and
8. in the event the order is confirmed, publishing and serve notices of confirmation of the Order and thereafter to execute and serve any general vesting declarations and/or notices to treat and notices of entry, and any other notices or correspondence to acquire the Land or any part of it.