Hampshire County Council

Executive Member, Policy & Resources Item

23 July 2004

North Popley Development Area including the Replacement John Hunt of

Everest School - Primary Highway and Servicing Infrastructure and Site

Preparation Works :   Project Appraisal

Report by the Director of Property, Business and Regulatory Services

(Summary of CONFIDENTIAL decision)

1

Summary

1.1

Approval is sought to:

i)

The project appraisal for the Infrastructure Works including a scheme of site preparation works to provide the required highway and servicing arrangements and associated structural landscaping for the replacement John Hunt of Everest School and the proposed strategic disposal phases of the County Council's development of its land at North Popley, Basingstoke; and

ii)

Secure the related Stopping Up and/or Highway Diversion Orders associated with the Infrastructure Works under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and/or Highways Act (1980)

2

Reasons

2.1

To secure the access and servicing arrangements to enable the successful development of the replacement secondary school and sequential releases of disposal sites within the North Popley Development Area. To secure a co-ordinated and managed development strategy which will ensure the early provision of the school and availability of serviced land for disposal to generate a flow of capital receipts

2.2

This decision supports the following Aims of the Corporate Strategy:

Aim 1 - Maximising life opportunities by the early provision of the replacement John Hunt of Everest secondary school as part of the North Popley Development Area.

Aim 2 - Stewardship of the environment by the implementation of a comprehensive infrastructure servicing strategy that will ensure that development land can be brought forward in a managed and co-ordinated way and in turn maximise the return in the generation of receipts.

Aim 5 - Improving services by the servicing for and thus early provision of the school to provide improved teaching facilities.

3

Other options considered and rejected

3.1

Disposing of the North Popley site without advanced servicing arrangements

4

Conflicts of interest declared by the decision-maker or other Executive Member consulted

4.1

Not applicable

5

Dispensation granted by the Standards Committee

5.1

Not applicable

6

Reason(s) for the matter being dealt with if urgent

6.1

Not applicable

Approved by:

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Date of decision:

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Councillor T K Thornber