Compulsory Purchase Order for Tangmere development site formally made
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The site is one of Chichester District Council’s strategic development locations and has been identified for between 1,000 and 1,300 homes, including 30 per cent affordable housing alongside a number of community facilities.
The site also has the support of Tangmere Parish Council and is part of its neighbourhood plan. In September 2018 a development partner, Countryside Properties, was selected to help deliver the project
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Hide AdSusan Taylor, cabinet member for planning at CDC, said: “This important site has just not progressed in the way it was envisaged. Despite on-going conversations between our officers and landowners/promoters over the past few years to try and reach an agreement we felt that really, this was the only way in which the site could be developed in a structured and cohesive manner.
“Using a CPO is a last resort, and because this is a key site in our local plan we felt that this was the only way that these much-needed homes were going to be delivered.”
The council will now submit the CPO to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government for confirmation.