For the Executive to decide whether or not to comply with the Purchase Notice served by Chambers Properties Ltd requiring the purchase by the Borough Council of two areas of open space at Springfield Way, Stubbington.
A Purchase Notice is a legal notice that the owner can serve on the local planning authority where planning permission for the development of the land has been refused, and the land has become incapable of reasonably beneficial use in its existing state. A Purchase Notice can only be served in specific circumstances.
The land the subject of the Purchase Notice was purchased by Chambers Properties Ltd in 2018. In 2019 Chambers Properties Ltd applied for planning permission for the construction of housing on the land. That application was refused, and Chambers Properties Ltd are of the view that the land has become incapable of a reasonably beneficial use in its existing state, and has submitted a Purchase Notice to the Borough Council that requires the Council to purchase the land.
The Council must determine whether the land has a restricted use by virtue of an existing planning permission and therefore whether to refer the Purchase Notice to the Secretary of State.
Decision type: Non-key
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Notice of proposed decision first published: 16/04/2021
Anticipated restriction: Part exempt - View reasons
Contact: Richard Jolley, Director of Planning & Regeneration Email: rjolley@fareham.gov.uk.
Consultees
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Background Papers: Purchase Notice dated 26 October 2020