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Marshgate Compulsory Purchase Orders (Supplementary) [16]

  • Question by: Damian Hockney
  • Meeting date: 16 November 2005
To keep his business.

Marshgate Compulsory Purchase Orders (Supplementary) [15]

  • Question by: John Biggs
  • Meeting date: 16 November 2005
For the record I am a Board Member and Vice Chair of the LDA. The question is to correct something Damian (Hockney, (AM)) said in particular, which is that the role of the agency here is to dislodge and effectively close down businesses. Would you not agree and recognise that the LDA is strenuously working to assemble alternative sites; it is entering into deals to build alternative accommodation for businesses to move into and is going way beyond what it would be required to do under the compulsory purchase regulations, which simply require it to pay the money and move...

Marshgate Compulsory Purchase Orders (Supplementary) [14]

  • Question by: Angie Bray
  • Meeting date: 16 November 2005
Before that they must know, so are they going to know by Christmas about where they are going?

Marshgate Compulsory Purchase Orders (Supplementary) [13]

  • Question by: Damian Hockney
  • Meeting date: 16 November 2005
Therefore what you are saying is the value of the land ' nobody can come to an agreement on this yet you say you reckon it is worth £1 million to £1.5 million per acre?

Marshgate Compulsory Purchase Orders (Supplementary) [12]

  • Question by: Damian Hockney
  • Meeting date: 16 November 2005
The LDA refused. The fish man, the one we always talk about ' Lance Foreman ' came to a Heads of Agreement with the LDA and then they tore it up, after he had found the land. My problem with this is Mary Reilly told me when we sat here on 9 September that 24 deals had been done to Heads of Agreement. Last month I asked the LDA again at the Budget Committee in October. On 2 November they came back and said 22 had been done. That is a step down of two, so it went from 24...

Marshgate Compulsory Purchase Orders (Supplementary) [11]

  • Question by: Damian Hockney
  • Meeting date: 16 November 2005
I cannot accept it is a political campaign.

Marshgate Compulsory Purchase Orders (Supplementary) [10]

  • Question by: Angie Bray
  • Meeting date: 16 November 2005
Therefore you can give us a reassurance can you that some time very soon they will be quite clear about where they are going to because I think that is the problem ' they do not know.

Marshgate Compulsory Purchase Orders (Supplementary) [9]

  • Question by: Angie Bray
  • Meeting date: 16 November 2005
Can you give us an idea about when they might be certain of knowing what their future is? Is there a date?

Marshgate Compulsory Purchase Orders (Supplementary) [8]

  • Question by: Damian Hockney
  • Meeting date: 16 November 2005
So did the LDA.

Marshgate Compulsory Purchase Orders (Supplementary) [7]

  • Question by: Damian Hockney
  • Meeting date: 16 November 2005
I have quoted it to you. It says in the event that it becomes housing, it will be worth £5 million, which is quite right. They are not saying they are asking that.
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