Property for Compulsory Purchase - Property A
To seek approval for the Compulsory Purchase of Property A in line with the Private Sector Housing Enforcement Policy.
(It is anticipated that this report, or parts of it, might be considered following the exclusion of the public and press as it contains exempt information as defined in Paragraph(s) 1, 2 and 3 of Part I of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972, as amended.)
(Report attached)
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The Committee received a report recommending the compulsory purchase of a property which had been empty since 2007 and was currently uninhabitable. The property was considered to be a blight on the neighbourhood and the former tenant had failed to prove legal right to the property.
It was questioned whether the Council had a strategy for identifying properties which might be subject to such action in a systematic manner. Officers disclosed that there were only a very small number of such properties that had been empty for five years or more and, of those, only two which met the Council’s current criteria for compulsory purchase.
(During consideration of this item Members discussed matters that necessitated the disclosure of exempt information. It was therefore agreed to exclude the press and public prior to any debate on the grounds that information would be revealed relating to an individual, which would identify an individual and relating to the financial or business affairs of a particular person (including the authority holding that information).)