Issue - meetings
Blandford Waste Management Centre - Update on finance and land acquisition
Meeting: 07/11/2023 - Cabinet (Item 16)
16 Blandford Waste Management Centre - Update on finance and land acquisition 
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To consider a report of the Portfolio Holder for Culture and Communities.
Appendix 5 is exempt and is as set out below.
Additional documents:
- Appendix 1 Cabinet report of 20 June 2023 (with commercial sensitative information redacted), item 16
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- Appendix 2 - Draft Order Plan, item 16
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- Appendix 3 - Draft Order (table of interests) and draft Statement of Reasons of the Acquiring Authority, item 16
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- Appendix 4 - Natural Environment Climate Ecological Decision Wheel Accessible Impact Assessment Table of Recommendations, item 16
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Decision:
(a) That the financial position of the project and progress to date be noted.
(b) That the draft Order documents, including the latest draft Order Plan, as attached to the report of 7 November 2023, be agreed.
Reason for the decision
To deliver works approved be Cabinet to secure critical infrastructure in Blandford for the development of a strategic waste transfer facility in central Dorset which would provide the capacity to maximise the benefits of operational efficiency and resilience to provide business continuity.
Minutes:
The Portfolio Holder for Culture and Communities presented a report updating members on the finance and land acquisition for the new Blandford Waste Management Centre. The Portfolio Holder advised that this was an important site and negotiations had been taking place over a considerable amount of time. To date an agreement had not been reached. Therefore, compulsory purchase powers were being sought to enable the project to progress if the land and necessary rights could not be acquired by agreement.
It was proposed by Cllr L Beddow and seconded by Cllr G Suttle.
Decision
(a) That the financial position of the project and progress to date be noted.
(b) That the draft Order documents, including the latest draft Order Plan, as attached to the report of 7 November 2023, be agreed.
Reason for the decision
To deliver works approved be Cabinet to secure critical infrastructure in Blandford for the development of a strategic waste transfer facility in central Dorset which would provide the capacity to maximise the benefits of operational efficiency and resilience to provide business continuity.