If you require further information about this agenda please contact: Thomas Ribbits on 020 8583 2251 or [email protected]. BOROUGH COUNCIL A meeting of the Borough Council will be held in the Council Chamber, Civic Centre, Lampton Road, Hounslow on Tuesday, 24th March 2015 at 8.00pm MEMBERSHIP The Mayor and Deputy Mayor All other Members of the Council AGENDA 1. Loyal Address to Her Majesty the Queen on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Creation of the London Borough of Hounslow It is proposed by Councillor Steve Curran, Leader of the Council, and seconded by Councillor Peter Thompson, Leader of the Opposition, that the Council resolve the following: To The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty The Loyal And Dutiful Address Of The Mayor, Council And Citizens Of The London Borough Of Hounslow On The Occasion Of The Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Creation Of The Borough. We, the Mayor and Members of the London Borough of Hounslow, on behalf of the all the people of the Borough, beg to tender our loyal greeting to Your Majesty upon the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of the Council in accordance with the provisions of the Local Government Act 1963 which came into force on 1st April 1965. We would like to thank Your Majesty for your service to the people of London and in particular the London Borough of Hounslow in the fifty years since the creation of the 32 London boroughs which comprise Greater London. As you have given dedicated and exemplary service over the many years of your reign, so too have the many members of the Council during the last fifty years striven to follow your example by providing selfless public service in pursuance of the benefit of residents, and hope to continue to do so for many more. The fiftieth anniversary of the creation of the London Borough of Hounslow is a unique occasion and it is with pride that we look back on our past successes and it is with hope that we look forward to continuing to improve the lives of the people of the Borough. We thank you for the opportunity that you have given us to do these things and so on this remarkable day, we give you our warmest good wishes for the forthcoming years. 2. Apologies for Absence, Other Announcements and Declarations of Interest from Members 3. Announcements To receive announcements (if any) from the Mayor, Leader, Members of the Cabinet or the Chief Executive as Head of Paid Service. 4. Minutes (Pages 1 - 30) To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 24th February 2015. 5. Petitions (Pages 31 - 35) Report by the Head of Democratic Services 6. Formal Resolution to Grant Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) for Land at Hounslow Town Centre (REG279) (Pages 36 - 233) Report by Councillor Steve Curran, Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for Housing and Regeneration Please note that due to their size, the appendices to this report are available in electronic form only and are not included in the hard copy version of this agenda 7. Appointment of Interim Head of Legal and Monitoring Officer (CEX57) (Pages 234 237) Report by Councillor Steve Curran, Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for Housing and Regeneration 8. Establishing a Hounslow Pension Board (CEX53) (Pages 238 256) Report by Councillor Theo Dennison, Cabinet Member for Finance and Citizen Engagement 9. Pay Statement (CEX48) (Pages 257 274) Report by Councillor Ajmer Grewal, Cabinet Member for Equalities and Inclusion 10. Appointments to Committees and Other Bodies Members are asked to make any appointments that are nominated at the meeting for the remainder of the municipal year and delegate authority to the Chief Executive, in consultation with the Mayor and Deputy Mayor, to make any adjustments necessary to ensure political proportionality. 11. Decisions Taken Under Urgency Arrangements (if any) The Council is asked to note the following uses of the urgency arrangements: Council and Cabinet Decisions Taken Under Urgency Arrangements: None Forward Plan Urgency Notices: None Questions from Members 12. Councillor Gurpal Virdi to ask Councillor Ajmer Grewal, Cabinet Member for Equalities and Inclusion Would the Cabinet Member for Equalities and Inclusion please explain the council‟s policy on: Recruitment, retention and progression of employees who been found to have discriminated, bullied, victimised or harassed others either by courts, tribunals or disciplinary panels. Any person who raises concerns, that is, „whistle blowing‟ on any matter. 13. Councillor John Todd to ask Councillor Steve Curran, Leader of the Council Hounslow Town Centre Redevelopment: 'On time and on budget' is frequently mentioned by Councillor Curran. I and others participated in a thorough review of a range of diverse and fully costed schemes for the town centre development submitted by a number of developers. We chose what we then considered to be the best scheme. In doing so we, amongst other things, made a comparative analysis of the costs and income then provided by each bidder. The London Borough of Hounslow provided professional advisers to aid our task. The chosen contractor had now apparently reneged on their original costings. The London Borough of Hounslow has accepted their new financial demands. Would Councillor Curran provide details of the original and new increased cost of this project and justify his acceptance of the increase? 14. Councillor Gerald McGregor to ask Councillor Richard Foote, Cabinet Member for Community Protection Will the Cabinet Member for Parking undertake to contact everyone who was improperly fined for parking at Chiswick House since May 2013 and give them a refund? Motions 15. Proposed by Councillor Peter Thompson and Seconded by Councillor Gerald McGregor “This Council is very concerned about the effect that such a tax would have on residents in Hounslow particularly those who bought their home many years ago and who have seen the value of their property appreciate enormously in recent years. The Council notes the comments by David Lammy MP and Diane Abbott MP that this is a „tax on London‟ and that this measure could force people to move out of the Borough and hit elderly people who do not have high incomes the most. The Council is also concerned that the proposed tax will not affect those it is intended to target. This Council resolves to oppose these measures and to lobby against them.” 16. Proposed by Councillor Steve Curran and Seconded by Councillor Mel Collins “This Council calls upon the Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt to reassure residents that increase waiting times in Accident and Emergency (A&E) at West Middlesex Hospital will be reduced immediately to meet National Health Service (NHS) waiting time targets to ensure that our residents do not suffer unduly”. 17. Any Other Matters That the Mayor Considers Urgent 18. Date of Next Meeting The next meeting of the Council is scheduled for Tuesday 26th May 2015 and will commence at 7.30pm in the Council Chamber. This will be the annual meeting of the Council. Recording and reporting on public meetings Please note that members of public can choose to record, or report in other ways, on this public meeting. If you wish to do so then please read the Council’s protocol which can be found on the Council’s website. Copies of the protocol are also available at the meeting. The Council asks that you avoid recording members of the audience who are not participants at the meeting. The Council will seek to facilitate this. However, anyone attending a public meeting does so in the knowledge that recording may take place and that they may be part of that record. DECLARING INTERESTS Members are reminded that if they have a personal interest in any matter being discussed at the meeting they must declare the interest and if the interest is also a prejudicial interest then they may not take part in any discussion or vote on the matter. Mary Harpley Chief Executive, Civic Centre, Lampton Road, Hounslow, TW3 4DN Published on 15th March 2015 Agenda Item 4 At a meeting of the Borough Council held on Tuesday, 24th February 2015 at 7.30pm in the Council Chamber at the Hounslow Civic Centre, Lampton Road, Hounslow Present: The Mayor, Councillor Corinna Smart (in the Chair) The Deputy Mayor, Councillor Bishnu Bahadur Gurung Councillors: Keith Anderson, Candice Atterton, Harleen Atwal Hear, Lily Bath, Raj Bath, Manjit Buttar, Ruth Cadbury, Peter Carey, John Chatt, Samia Chaudhary, Bandna Chopra, Mel Collins, Steve Curran, Samantha Davies, Theo Dennison, Katherine Dunne, Colin Ellar, Richard Foote, Linda Green, Pritam Grewal, Puneet Grewal, Sachin Gupta, Sam Hearn, Tina Howe, David Hughes, Elizabeth Hughes, Kamaljit Kaur, Gurmail Lal, Adrian Lee, Tony Louki, Paul Lynch, Mukesh Malhotra, Khulique Malik, Nisar Malik, Amrit Mann, Ed Mayne, Gerald McGregor, Shaida Mehrban, Hina Mir, Alan Mitchell, Sheila O'Reilly, Robert Oulds, Shantanu Rajawat, Daanish Saeed, Sue Sampson, Sohan Sangha, Myra Savin, Jagdish Sharma, Peter Thompson, John Todd, Gurpal Virdi and Bob Whatley 1. Apologies for Absence, Other Announcements and Declarations of Interest from Members Apologies for absence were received from Councillors Tom Bruce, Sam Christie, Ajmer Grewal, Hanif Khan and Surinder Purewal. Apologies for lateness were received from Councillors John Chatt, Bandna Chopra, Linda Green and Gurpal Virdi. There were no declarations of interest. 2. Announcements The Mayor advised Members of the sad news of the recent passing of Councillor Hanif Khan’s mother who died in the early hours of 12th February 2015. On behalf of the Council, she extended the sympathies and condolences of all Members to him and his family at this difficult time. The Mayor then advised Members of the death of Miss Anne Naysmith, the well known homeless ex-pianist who used to live in Chiswick and who was well known to the community across the Borough. Regrettably, Miss Naysmith died in a vehicle accident on 11th February 2015, and was subsequently featured in a full page obituary in the Guardian newspaper. The Mayor acknowledged that many Councillors of both parties had known her well and had helped her over the many years she had lived in the Borough and would share a great sadness at the news of her passing. 1 The Mayor then reminded Members of the gala dinner taking place on Saturday 28th February 2015 as part of the celebrations to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of the Borough. She stated that the event was now completely booked and she expected it to be a wonderful night. She looked forward to seeing many Members at the dinner and expressed the view that it promised to be a night to reMember. Councillor Steve Curran, Leader of the Council, announced that Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, had awarded the Council £18.5 million as part of his Housing Zone programme. Hounslow was one of only a small number of London Boroughs to receive such funding and the award recognised Hounslow’s forward looking approach to the creation of new affordable and social housing for residents. He welcomed the funding which would be used effectively both on time and on budget to provide new housing. Councillor Richard Foote, Cabinet Member for Community Protection, congratulated the Cranford and Heston Neighbourhood Police Teams as the winners of the Police Commissioner’s Excellence in Total Policing Award. The officers in question had impressed with their use of predictive crime mapping technology together with other technology which targeted crime. He was pleased to be able to say that the Borough had some of the best police officers in London working within its borders and as a result of close working by the Council and local police, residents had seen a drop of 25% in burglaries in Hounslow in the last year. The Mayor then made an announcement about the Duke of Northumberland’s River which flowed from the River Crane in Twickenham to the River Thames in Isleworth. She explained that the Crane Valley Partnership, supported by the Friends of the River Crane and Hounslow and Richmond Councils, was currently bidding for £175,000 of funding from the Greater London Authority to turn this neglected stretch of waterway into a haven for wildlife, and a place for people to enjoy. The proposed improvements included making the link more accessible with better paths and signage – and the project aimed ultimately to create a new ten kilometre circular riverside walk linking the Crane, Thames and Duke’s rivers. However, this funding could only be secured if this project were to win in an online poll currently taking place. Therefore, the Mayor asked all Members to consider voting for the project by 2nd March 2015 and also to encourage others to do so too. She undertook to send the online link to the voting page (www.london.gov.uk/biggreenpoll) to all Members to help them to do so. The Mayor then concluded the announcements by explaining that the next meeting of the Council, scheduled for 24th March 2015, would be the one closest to the actual fiftieth anniversary of the creation of the Council itself on 1st April 1965. She had therefore agreed that the meeting would commence at 8.00pm, so that there could be a small reception starting at 7.00pm beforehand which would continue for one hour. At this reception, to which all Members were invited, she would be unveiling a framed version of the Council’s establishing charter from 1965. 3. Minutes The Mayor advised that Councillor Ed Mayne had asked that the following amendment be made in relation to the minutes of the meeting of the Council held on 27th January 2015: That the sentence “However, he questioned why the flag of Northern Ireland had not been 2 included when those for Wales, England and Scotland had been” be replaced by “However, he noted the difficulties experienced in Northern Ireland relating to flag flying on Civic Buildings including violent demonstrations, and expressed the need to get the policy right”. Councillor Tony Louki advised that the first petition he had presented to the Mayor at the meeting had been in relation to the Wyke Green Estate and not the White Garden Estate as stated in the minutes and asked for this to be amended. It was then RESOLVED – That the minutes of the meeting of the Council held on Tuesday 27th January 2015 be confirmed as a correct record and signed by the Chair, subject to the amendments detailed above. TO NOTE: All 4. Petitions Members considered a report by the Head of Democratic Services. The following petition was presented to the Mayor: Councillor Katherine Dunne submitted a petition from residents in Isleworth and the surrounding area in relation to the Red Lion Pub in Linkfield Road seeking to have it classified as an asset of community value. There were no further petitions presented to the Mayor. The Mayor then invited Members to note the referrals of previously received petitions as detailed in the report. It was then RESOLVED – That the petitions that had been forwarded to other formal bodies of the Authority for consideration be noted ACTION BY: Head of Democratic Services TO NOTE: All 5. 2015/16 Budget Report (CR140) Preliminary Matters 3 Members considered a report by Councillor Theo Dennison, Cabinet Member for Finance and Citizen Engagement. The Mayor first reminded Members that following guidance from the Department for Communities and Local Government, the Council was required to hold recorded votes (a named vote stating the way that each Member voted) on any decision relating to the budget or Council tax. Therefore she clarified that all votes taken in relation to this item would be recorded. The Mayor then drew Members’ attention to the tabled paper which had been circulated to all those present. She explained that on 5th February 2015, the Overview and Scrutiny Committee had received presentations by the Cabinet setting out proposed savings for the Council for 2015/16, which were now before Members in the agenda report. During the meeting, the Overview and Scrutiny Committee had requested that Cabinet Members provide responses to questions raised by Members of the Committee relating to two of the items, namely: RE – CSER1 – Reorganisation of Regulatory and Enforcement Services RE – WIM – Development of WIM The Mayor explained that the tabled paper set out those requested responses and she asked all Members to note this and to bear them in mind when considering the budget report on the agenda. The Mayor then further explained that she was proposing also to follow the customary process at the Council budget setting meetings of allowing each of the Party Leaders to speak for more than the usual five minutes in their main speeches. The usual time permitted for these two speeches was ten minutes each, and then only once during the meeting – with any other interventions lasting no more than the usual five minutes, in accordance with the Constitution. She asked Members therefore to agree to waive standing order 12.4 in the Constitution to allow this. Members gave their consent to this proposal. The Mayor then clarified that the tabled paper circulated to Members also contained a number of proposed amendments from the Conservative Group on the Council. She therefore explained that she proposed to consider this report in the following way: The proposer and seconder of the original report to speak first. She would then invite the Council to proceed to the proposed amendments and deal with those one by one, voting on each. The Council would then finally debate the substantive item after this, taking into account any amendments that may have been made to it, and then vote on the final recommendations. There was general agreement to this proposal. Report Introduction 4 The Mayor therefore invited Councillor Theo Dennison, Cabinet Member for Finance and Citizen Engagement, to introduce the original report. In proposing the recommendations in the report, Councillor Dennison made the following comments: He was proud that for the ninth year in succession, the Council was proposing to freeze or reduce the Council Tax in the Borough; this was a fact that made the Council almost unique. The budget before Members allowed the Council to focus on its priorities such as developing affordable housing, the provision of sufficient school places, the removal of litter from the streets and the many other ambitions of the current Administration to improve the lives of residents. He thanked Mary Harpley, the Chief Executive, and senior officers of the Council in helping to draft the proposals in accordance with the wishes of the Cabinet and he also thanked Clive Palfreyman, Assistant Director of Strategic Finance, and his colleagues in the Finance Department for their work in producing the report. He acknowledged that the Conservative Group had provided four proposed amendments to the budget report which were shortly to be debated, but he expressed the view that they were unique in that they made no reference to the original report. He also expressed concern that they seemed to be about increasing expenditure without any suggestion on making alternative savings to pay for the proposals. The commended the recommendations in the report to Members for approval. Councillor Dennison then accepted an intervention from Councillor John Todd who clarified that the proposals did make reference to the original report and illustrated this with reference to page 51 of the report which related to looked after children, which was the same subject matter as proposed in amendment two. Councillor Dennison observed that the word “budget” was also shared between the original report and the proposed amendments but little else. Councillor Steve Curran then seconded the report. Councillor Amrit Mann requested clarification on a point of order. He observed that the proposed amendments included no figures and as it was his view that in addition they did not relate to the budget report, he considered them to be ultra vires and asked that they be not considered. In response, Richard Gruet, Assistant Director of Corporate Governance, clarified that the proposed amendments were not ultra vires and had been submitted correctly under standing order 11(g) in the Constitution. As such, he advised that they should be considered. Proposed Amendment One The Mayor then invited Councillor Adrian Lee to introduce the first proposed amendment, which read as follows: “This Council resolves: a. That £1 million pounds be allocated to the refurbishment of Chiswick Library. b. That £250,000 is allocated to the construction and maintenance of a new crucial footbridge linking the Chiswick Business Park with Chiswick Park Underground Station.” 5 In introducing the proposed amendment, Councillor Lee made the following comments: The proposed amendment before Members was sensible and related to two matters of exceptional priority. The first was the need to refurbish Chiswick Library which was the second most used library in the Borough, and the only separate reference library in Hounslow. It had excellent and devoted staff but the building itself was decrepit and deteriorating into what could soon be a dangerous state. The building was also not compliant with the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) and so there were parts of it which could not be used as they were not accessible. He argued that by refurbishing the premises, the Council would be helping the local community and also allowing the Library to rent out spaces which would help generate revenue. The need for quick action was illustrated by the fact that the Friends of Chiswick Library Group had recently reformed due to concerns over the maintenance of the building and the fear that it could decline further to the point that it would be closed. The second matter in the proposed amendment was the creation of a footbridge linking the Chiswick Business Park and Chiswick Park Underground Station to help alleviate the pressure at Gunnersbury Station which was effectively the only station that serviced the business park but which was not capable of doing so without problems. The proposed footbridge would help make the business park more commercially viable which in turn would benefit the Borough. He explained that £1 million was needed to create the footbridge and that £600000 would be provided by section 106 monies (money provided by developers in relation to planning under section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990) so only a small contribution from the Council would be required. He clarified that the footbridge was a crucial addition to local infrastructure and would help bring money into the Borough and so it was appropriate that the Council should be a partner. Councillor John Todd then seconded the proposed amendment. The Mayor then asked Councillor Dennison if he was prepared to accept the proposed amendment. Councillor Dennison advised that he was not, and so the Mayor then invited Members to debate the proposal and the following comments were made: Councillor Ruth Cadbury considered that the purpose of the Council meeting was to debate and agree the Council’s budget for 2015/16 and as such the two proposals in the amendment would have been better considered elsewhere. She also observed that they did not need Council money. She asked Councillor Lee why he had not arranged for the refurbishment of the Chiswick Library when he had been Cabinet Member with responsibility for Leisure between 2006 and 2009. She would like to have seen £1 million provided for the addition of a lift at Brentford Library but as the Council was dealing with taxpayers’ money, such expenditures could not easily be made. She believed that there were other possible financial solutions available in relation to any refurbishment of Chiswick Library. She also commented that, whilst not a Member of the Gunnersbury Station Working Party, she had read a minute which stated that section 106 money had been provided that would cover the entire cost of the new footbridge to Chiswick Park Station, and furthermore approval for its longer 6 term maintenance had also been agreed so the whole project could proceed without public money being provided. Councillor Gerald McGregor stated that Councillors using Chiswick Library for surgeries were placed in an upstairs room but many residents were unable to access it, and so he had often had to meet with constituents in the open library area which was not a satisfactory solution given the personal nature of the conversations. The Conservative-Independent Administration of 2006-2010 had investigated a solution for the refurbishment by utilising property assets to fund improvements to the library and area but the financial crash of 2007-2009 had meant that this could not proceed. The need for the building to become DDA compliant was both outstanding and urgent. On the matter of the footbridge, he clarified that section 106 money became taxpayer’s money once it had been signed off as such. He expressed concerns about the maintenance of the proposed footbridge and supported the amendment as he considered that helping the business park thrive would help the Council increase its income from business rates. He concluded by stating that the proposed amendment was thoughtful and was an attempt to improve the budget. He added that in his view the proposals on fees and charges in the original report would prove to be its “Achilles Heel” Councillor Colin Ellar observed that the Council had attempted to improve the Chiswick Library and to make it DDA compliant during the 2002-2006 Labour Administration but the proposed solutions had been rejected by local residents. It had been an honest attempt to solve the problem but as it had not been popular it had not proceeded. He considered it to be a fine building and accepted that it needed a solution but observed that neither a Labour nor a Conservative-Independent Administration had been able to find one. On the matter of the footbridge, he noted that there was a lift in operation at the back of the business park which allowed access to Chiswick Park Underground Station by road. However, he agreed that a footbridge would be useful but questioned why Council money should be used to secure it, when funding had already been provided. He also questioned why the proposed amendment had only now been submitted as the business park had been in operation for many years. Councillor John Todd recalled the Labour proposals for Chiswick Library which comprised placing the library service into the local business zone and the building itself being taken over by a company. This had received no support from local residents. He then stated that he had spoken to the Head of Traffic who had advised that no agreement to provide maintenance for the new footbridge had been signed and that the bridge would cost £3.5 million overall which was the section 106 obligation. However, the Council should support the bridge by making a contribution of £250000 which was comparatively small. Councillor Ruth Cadbury requested the opportunity to make a point of information in accordance with the Constitution and clarified that the maintenance agreement was about to be signed following the intervention of the Leaders of both Hounslow and Ealing. Councillor Todd then continued and observed that over £600000 of section 106 money had been available for the refurbishment of Chiswick Library but it has been taken by the Labour Administration of 2010-2014 to spend on Gunnersbury Library instead. He concluded by noting that Councillor Cadbury was supporting a bid for £1.9million for a marina scheme in Brentford whilst the Hounslow Corporate Resources Centre lay 7 largely empty; the matter was one of fair distribution of money for improvements around all of the Borough. Councillor Amrit Mann advised that he would not be supporting the proposed amendment. He commented that the Council was legally obliged to agree a balanced budget but he noticed that the Conservative amendments merely added areas of additional expenditure without making suggestions on what should be removed from the budget to pay for them. He had never seen this before and he considered that it trivialised the work of the officers who had put together the main budget report. He, like many Councillors, would like to see more money spent on libraries, Heston library in particular in his case, but this was not currently possible. He had respect for former Councillor Barbara Reid who had submitted small but detailed budget proposals in the past, but he was surprised that this was not the case here: no figures to balance the budget if the proposals were to be accepted had been provided and he expressed surprise that Councillor McGregor would have allowed this. Councillor Mann accepted an intervention from Councillor McGregor who objected to any suggestion that the Conservatives were disparaging or trivialising the work of the Finance Team of the Council. He stated that the Conservative Group had looked at the proposed budget with care before submitting its proposed amendment and had worked with officers in drawing them up. They related to matters of great concern to residents and so it was right they should be considered by Members. Councillor Mann then continued and reminded Members that they were there to discuss and agree a balanced budget but as the proposed amendments did not explain how they would ensure the budget was balanced, he would not be supporting them. Councillor Sachin Gupta considered that the proposed amendment would upset former Councillor Liz Mammatt as it did not mention spending money on the Bedfont Library, which was a venue close to her heart. He then stated that in his opinion the Chiswick Library must be DDA compliant or it would have had to close. He stated that it had a platform lift for use by the public which he saw on a recent visit and this was featured on the library’s website. He then observed that Councillor Lee had said at a previous meeting of the Council that he doubted the financial viability of the proposed Hounslow Town Centre redevelopment which he considered to be at odds with his support for the footbridge and the idea that Chiswick Library might create revenue by hiring out rooms. He also criticised Councillor McGregor for stating that moneys should be distributed across the Borough when the proposed amendment showed that the Conservative Group only cared about Chiswick. Councillor Tony Louki stated that all Members recalled how the ConservativeIndependent Administration had wasted money on using KPMG as external consultants. However, he suggested only a few Members would recall that London Regional Transport (the forerunner to Transport for London) had sold the Chiswick bus works which had since become the Gunnersbury Business Park. However, he did not consider the walk from the park to either South Action Railway Station or Chiswick Park Underground Station to be very long. He suggested that the Conservative Group ask Boris Johnson, as Mayor of London, to provide the additional funding they wanted for the footbridge. He was unimpressed that the Conservative Party which styled itself the party of law and order was seeking to make amendments to a budget which stopped it being balanced which was a legal requirement. As such, he would not be 8 supporting the proposal. He chastised the Conservative Group for bringing proposals to the budget setting meeting of the Council without having previously raised them at area forums or other more appropriate bodies and meetings. He concluded by observing regretfully that there was nobody in the public gallery which contrasted sharply with the past when many attended the discussion on the budget; this showed public disengagement with politics. There being no more comments, the Mayor invited Councillor Dennison to sum up the debate on the first proposed amendment. In so doing, he made the following comments: He considered the amendment uncosted. He noted Councillor Lee’s proposal for making money from Chiswick Library He considered that providing money to the footbridge might breach state aid laws. He agreed that there was nothing in the capital budget in relation to refurbishment of the Chiswick Library but on the other hand he had never been approached to include it. The Capital Budget plans inherited by the 2010-2014 Labour Administration from the Conservative-Independent Administration beforehand had not contained any provision for the refurbishment of the Chiswick Library. He therefore did not support the amendment. The Mayor then put the proposed amendment to the vote and it was RESOLVED – That the proposed amendment not be approved. Members voted in the following way: Members in support of the proposed amendment: Councillors Peter Carey, Samantha Davies, Sam Hearn, Adrian Lee, Paul Lynch, Gerald McGregor, Sheila O'Reilly, Robert Oulds, Peter Thompson and John Todd. Members against the proposed amendment: Councillors Keith Anderson, Candice Atterton, Harleen Atwal Hear, Lily Bath, Raj Bath, Manjit Buttar, Ruth Cadbury, Samia Chaudhary, Bandna Chopra, Mel Collins, Steve Curran, Theo Dennison, Katherine Dunne, Colin Ellar, Richard Foote, Linda Green, Pritam Grewal, Puneet Grewal, Sachin Gupta, Bishnu Bahadur Gurung, Tina Howe, David Hughes, Elizabeth Hughes, Kamaljit Kaur, Gurmail Lal, Tony Louki, Mukesh Malhotra, Khulique Malik, Nisar Malik, Amrit Mann, Ed Mayne, Shaida Mehrban, Hina Mir, Alan Mitchell, Shantanu Rajawat, Daanish Saeed, Sue Sampson, Sohan Sangha, Myra Savin, Jagdish Sharma, Corinna Smart, Gurpal Virdi and Bob Whatley Proposed Amendment Two The Mayor then invited Councillor Peter Thompson to introduce the second proposed amendment, which read as follows: 9 “This Council resolves: a. That Lampton 360 Ltd and its subsidiaries are wound up forthwith. b. That £200,000 be reserved for loans to Hounslow based SME’s in consultation with the Hounslow Chamber of Commerce. c. That Children’s Services be instructed to initiate the procurement of a Social Impact Bond to aid intervention and prevention and reduce the number of children in care and /or requiring fostering by delivery of improved services and support, delivery of better social outcomes, unlock better services for our residents and reduce the significant cost of this service. “ In introducing the item, Councillor Thompson made the following comments: The role of any opposition group on a Council was a thankless task but it was still important to try to influence decisions and the proposed amendments being considered were an attempt to do so. He noted that any opposition would be criticised by the majority group for its proposals; his Administration had done it to the then Labour Opposition and the last Labour Administration had in turn criticised any budget proposals by the Conservatives. He supported both innovation in the Council and traded services but he was of the view that Lampton 360, the Council’s trading company, had done very little whilst costing the Council money to operate. The company had so far failed to make any profit at all and as such, he considered that the company should be wound up as an experiment which had tried but failed. The proposed amendment also sought to use some of the New Homes Bonus awarded by the Government to the Council to create a fund to assist small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) following consultation with the Hounslow Chamber of Commerce. An example of how this worked in practice was in Croydon where it had been successful and helped protect 300 local jobs. He acknowledged that similar schemes had been tried in Hounslow before but these had foundered due to poor advertising. The Chamber of Commerce had given its support and was keen to be involved. The amendment also sought the creation of a social impact bond to aid intervention and prevention where necessary and so reduce the number of children in care whilst reducing the cost of the service and delivering better social outcomes for vulnerable people. Councillor John Todd then seconded the proposed amendment. The Mayor then asked Councillor Dennison if he was prepared to accept the proposed amendment. Councillor Dennison advised that he was not, and so the Mayor then invited Members to debate the proposal and the following comments were made: Councillor Ruth Cadbury considered it ironic that the proposed amendment both discouraged entrepreneurial activity by seeking the closure of Lampton 360 whilst encouraging it with the prosed SME fund. She suggested that this showed inconsistency. In her view, Lampton 360 was trading well and should be given time to develop in the ways envisaged when it was originally created. She did not object to the SME fund but considered it an old fashioned and costly idea, using taxpayers money in an outdated and unproven way. She also recalled that the last Conservative- 10 Independent Administration had reduced the size of the Council’s Economic Development Team to two staff. However, she observed that there were some closed source funding opportunities for SMEs and so she did not see a need for the Council to support them. In relation to Social Impact Bonds, she advised that she was a trustee of a Board that had invested in them. It was hoped they would produce savings but the process required a radical change of service affecting vulnerable people and so it was highly inappropriate to bring the idea to a budget setting meeting when it ought to have been considered in detail by other Council bodies beforehand. She reminded Members that it was important to look at service changes for looked after children and other vulnerable groups not based on financial savings but on what was best for each individual. Councillor Colin Ellar observed that Lampton 360 had only existed for one year. He also commented that many other Boroughs had set up similar companies and which were proving successful and he expected Hounslow’s also to be so over time. He understood the logic of the Government changing the law to allow such organisations to exist in order to help generate money to offset reductions in funding. On the matter of SME loans, he noted that organisations such as Greater Enterprise London existed to provide this very service so the function already existed in London. He noted that when the Council did once loan money to a company, in this case Brentford Football Club, the Conservative Group had criticised it which was inconsistent, given their proposed amendment. He concluded by stating that the loan to the Football Club had been paid back in full and with interest. Councillor Ed Mayne suggested that the call to close down Lampton 360 showed that the Conservative Group had no faith in Local Government or the Council to run a profitable business, yet Sheffield City Council operated Sheffield Airport with great success. He considered that the Conservatives preached localism but practiced centralisation. He noted that the best way to help SMEs would be to reduce business rates but the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Government had not done so, whereas a new Labour Government would. He then addressed the proposal on the social impact bond and questioned if the Conservative Party as a whole had considered the adverse social impact on the introduction of the Bedroom Tax; 57% of people in Council housing now went without personal items in order to pay additional rent in order to stay in their homes. The Government had presided over a tax cut for millionaires but a tax increase for the poor whilst introducing free schools in areas where there was neither need nor demand, damaging the National Health Service and making damaging cuts to the public sector in general. He would therefore not be supporting the proposed amendment. Councillor Todd advised that Lampton 360 had started in 2012 with the stated intention of selling surplus flowers and similar low level items. It had not yet made a profit and the Council was holding back £0.5 million in reserves to allow the company to continue to trade whilst it was insolvent. Councillors Ellar and Sharma had both been directors of the company which generated no profit. He also noted the comment in the Cabinet agenda for the meeting on 13th October 2014 that stated that the Conference Centre was not considered economically viable. In relation to the SME fund, he observed that a valuable initiative had been created in the past but had failed due as nobody had heard about it. He was interested to hear that Councillor Cadbury was a trustee of an organisation that had invested in a social impact bond yet did not have confidence that it would be effective. He concluded by stating that others had seen the benefits. 11 Councillor Lily Bath considered the proposed amendment to be silly; social impact bonds were a new idea and therefore untested. Nor yet was any good practice in this area identified. Conversely, they had been tried in PeterBorough but had not succeeded. Children’s Services was a complex area and unnecessary risks should be avoided. It was wrong to experiment with the lives of young people. The proposed amendment did not clarify what precisely was to be procured with the bond. The Council already had a robust prevention strategy to help avoid children going into care, and it would be sensible to develop this further rather than try risky new ideas. Councillor Gerald McGregor admired Councillor Mayne’s way with words but noted that none of his comments were relevant to the debate. It was easy to attack the Government but it was overseeing a recovery from a serious financial crisis. He also noted that Councillor Mayne’s support for localism rang hollow as he had deliberately avoided the local approach to considering a parking scheme in Chiswick by circumventing the area forum and instead approving a single Member decision to implement it. He asked why Councillor Cadbury was against providing costs through a social impact bond to Children’s Services. He also observed that he had analysed the original budget report and located a number of large errors and strategic failures within it. Councillor Ruth Cadbury requested the opportunity to make a point of clarification: She stated that Councillor McGregor had implied that she had opposed to the specific proposal to use social impact bonds when in fact she had objected to it being submitted as a budget proposal as the budget setting meeting was not the place to discuss it. Councillor McGregor argued that Councillor Cadbury was attempting to stifle debate by limiting what could be discussed at meetings. In his view, it was perfectly appropriate to bring the proposed amendments to the Council Budget Meeting. Councillor Amrit Mann congratulated Councillor Thompson on introducing an innovative way of addressing the budget by way of proposing amendments that did not relate to the budget at all. The proposal to close down Lampton 360 flew in the face of traditional Conservative support for business. It was well known that most companies took a long time to make a profit. Councillor Mann accepted an intervention from Councillor Robert Oulds who noted that the proposal to develop the Lampton Park Confence Centre had been made in 2006 by the then Labour Administration at a cost of £2 million supplied by the Council and £2 million from section 106 money. He asked how many years would it take for the Conference Centre to pay that money back. Councillor Mann responded by noting that it cost less than what the 2006-2010 Conservative-Independent Administration had spent on KPMG as an external consultant. Councillor Mann accepted a second intervention from Councillor Robert Oulds who said that so far the Council had saved £207 million on an ongoing basis as a result of 2006-2010 Administrations’ Performance Improvement Plan, which when compared to how much the Labour Administrations since 2010 had spent on consultants and agency staff, showed that the Labour Group could not match the Conservatives for financial prudence. 12 Councillor Mann then continued and asked why the Conservatives were unhappy with Lampton 360. As a company, it did not have to be tied to the building. The Conference Centre was seen as a community facility but was “mothballed” by the incoming Administraton in 2006 which in turn cost money as it sustained water damage due to lack of use, whereas it was now making money. He had faith that the company would make substantial sums when it was more developed. There being no more comments, the Mayor invited Councillor Dennison to sum up the debate on the second proposed amendment. In so doing, he made the following comments: He clarified that the Labour Group was dissatisfied with the use of KPMG in 2007 as they had been brought in not to provide specialist knowledge or help but to identify ways to save money; it could not be compared with use of interns or agency staff. He reminded Members that 60% of social workers were agency staff. He noted that the Conservatives’ claim that they were prudent had not helped them find a way of funding the refurbishment of Chiswick Library. On the matter of social impact bonds, he agreed that they could work but that the benefits came from partnership with outside organisations or raising money to pay for the service: in his view it was not prudent to borrow money to pay for things. He considered it shameful to try to privatise such services. He therefore did not support the amendment. The Mayor then put the proposed amendment to the vote and it was RESOLVED – That the proposed amendment not be approved. Members voted in the following way: Members in support of the proposed amendment: Councillors Peter Carey, Samantha Davies, Sam Hearn, Adrian Lee, Paul Lynch, Gerald McGregor, Sheila O'Reilly, Robert Oulds, Peter Thompson and John Todd. Members against the proposed amendment: Councillors Keith Anderson, Candice Atterton, Harleen Atwal Hear, Lily Bath, Raj Bath, Manjit Buttar, Ruth Cadbury, Samia Chaudhary, Bandna Chopra, Mel Collins, Steve Curran, Theo Dennison, Katherine Dunne, Colin Ellar, Richard Foote, Linda Green, Pritam Grewal, Puneet Grewal, Sachin Gupta, Bishnu Bahadur Gurung, Tina Howe, David Hughes, Elizabeth Hughes, Kamaljit Kaur, Gurmail Lal, Tony Louki, Mukesh Malhotra, Khulique Malik, Nisar Malik, Amrit Mann, Ed Mayne, Shaida Mehrban, Hina Mir, Alan Mitchell, Shantanu Rajawat, Daanish Saeed, Sue Sampson, Sohan Sangha, Myra Savin, Jagdish Sharma, Corinna Smart, Gurpal Virdi and Bob Whatley Proposed Amendment Three 13 The Mayor then invited Councillor John Todd to introduce the third proposed amendment, which read as follows: “This Council resolves: a. to initiate the purchase of social housing properties without delay. b. to eliminate the excessive number of void London Borough of Hounslow properties and related 50% premium payment by the Council of Council Tax c. to increase the number of empty house brought back into use.” In introducing the item, Councillor Todd made the following comments: He had recently read the Cabinet report on the Housing Revenue Account thirty year plan and had found it inaccurate. The report had also stated that Hounslow Housing was not fit for purpose. Finance Officers had helped him identify a great deal of money across the Council that was left unused and dormant including £128 million of right-to-buy receipts. In addition, £6.6 million of money provided by developers in excess of what they had provided on site was also being held unused. He also stated that £2.7 million of section 106 money had not been spent. The Council wanted to build affordable housing but lacked credibility with residents. The Council owned 519 empty homes in the Borough which deprived the Council of an estimated £300000 in rental income. In addition, the Council was now paying £30 000 per year for a number of properties which had been empty for more than two years. The turnaround time for voids (empty properties) being used to house people ranged from three weeks to 741 weeks. This was unacceptable, particularly given the Council was dedicated to building new social housing and 3000 were already on the waiting list. He argued that Hounslow Housing should spend the monies not being used to help people live in decent affordable housing. Councillor Peter Thompson then seconded the proposed amendment and in doing so, he made the following comments: He considered that there was a problem with definitions in the case of affordable housing, which was identified as being housing available at 80% of the normal market value – which in London was usually so high that property that fell into this definition was still out of the reach of most people. He recently attended a meeting of the West Gunnersbury Residents Association and the biggest complaint he heard was about the lack of affordable housing in the Chiswick and Brentford areas. Residents had asked him to draw Members’ attention to their concerns on this issue. The Mayor then asked Councillor Dennison if he was prepared to accept the proposed amendment. Councillor Dennison advised that he was not, and so the Mayor then invited Members to debate the proposal and the following comments were made: Councillor Steve Curran considered the comments he had just heard as “sanctimonious claptrap” and criticised the Conservatives for the actions of the Government in introducing the bedroom tax which had driven poor people out of 14 central London and placed increased pressure on outer London Boroughs. He likened this to “ethnic cleansing”. He also considered that the Conservative Group itself had done nothing to improve Council housing during the 2006-2010 Administration as it had handed over the Housing Portfolio in its entirety to the Independent Community Group. He had significant concerns about purchasing back social housing as this was likely to result in the Council being out of pocket as new Council residents exercised their right-to-buy again and the Council losing the housing stock for a second time. He considered that the Conservative Party was living up to its reputation as being the “nasty party” and he refused to accept lectures on social housing from them. Councillor Curran then accepted an intervention from Councillor Sam Hearn, who asked him if he would continue in way that was less excitable and abusive. Councillor Curran disagreed that he was being insulting. Councillor Curran then continued by explaining that the Council was on target for building new affordable homes and Council houses. It had also set a target for bringing empty houses back into use and he was confident that the Council would meet it. He noted that Chiswick residents and Councillors had become upset at the Council’s support for the Brentford Football Club Redevelopment plans whereas both Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, and Eric Pickles MP, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, had considered it to be a good community benefit. The Mayor had also recognised the Council’s flexible approach to building more houses and had given money in support of it. He concluded by expressing his view that it was better to build new housing with the Council’s money that spend it on external consultants like KPMG. At this stage, the Mayor asked Members across the Council Chamber briefly to gather their thoughts and to calm down in order to allow debate to continue. Councillor Paul Lynch stated that he approved of consensus and remained personally interested in social housing despite smarting from the coruscating attack by Councillor Curran. He noted too that recently a young Labour Councillor had called for more social housing to be made available in Chiswick and he therefore suggested that Council housing be created in Lorraine Road in his ward. Residents there supported the idea of flats in the road being used for this purpose and for Council tenants to be housed there; they opposed the properties and land being sold off to developers. He therefore asked Lorraine Road to be included as part of the report on page 62 which related to new build expenditure. It would help the Council meet its targets, would please residents and would help turn old flats into houses. He thought that this contrasted with the development of Lionel Road where 910 dwellings were to be created, none of them affordable. He could understand why young Labour Councillors were seeking to build additional Council housing elsewhere, as the plans for Lionel Road/Brentford Football Club had put the Council behind target. He considered that the Lionel Road redevelopment would have cost the Council a fortune in terms of what it gave away when supporting it – possibly tens of millions of pounds. He suggested that every time the Labour Group decided to mention the use of KPMG as an example of wasted money, it would only be fair for the Conservative Group to respond by referencing the Lionel Road redevelopment in a similar vein. 15 Councillor Lynch then accepted an intervention from Councillor Sachin Gupta who asked what the pressure on the Conservative-Independent Administration of 2006-2010 to save money had been as he considered that its cuts had been undertaken for no reason. In response, Councillor Lynch said that the savings were introduced to make the Council more cost effective. Councillor Colin Ellar recalled that the Council once owned more than 25000 Council houses but this number had been reduced by Government policy to about 14000; the Council had been forced to sell its Council houses to residents at a discount and had not been permitted to use the receipts to build more Council housing. He welcomed the change in the law that meant that Councils could once again build Council housing. Hounslow had built over 2500 new such houses between 2010-2014 and was on course to build 3000 more in the current Council term. The Council wanted to people to be able to afford to live in a house without housing benefit. He criticised what he considered to be the stupidity of Government policy on housing since the 1980s. He noted too that the issue of the time it took to get voids back into use had been discussed by the Council over twenty years: the problem was not lethargy, it was difficulty. Councillor Gerald McGregor commented that he looked forward to Council houses in Chiswick but reminded the Council that without Chiswick, the Council would see a substantial drop in its Council Tax returns. He also criticised the use of inflammatory language during debates and considered that the only real affect it had was to make the user feel good about themselves whilst diminishing their standing with others. He then commented on the recent Cabinet Report on the Housing Revenue Account and observed that the Council had identified that it owned Council housing in Dukes Avenue off Chiswick High Street: each of the properties in question had a value of £3.5million each and the Council was in effect subsidising people to live in them. He noted too that the Labour Administration was keen to criticise Government housing policies in relation to right-to-buy whilst planning to sell off the Dukes Avenue properties themselves. He then reminded Members that from 1952 when the national programme of building Council housing had begun, most properties had been built using Government money distributed by a Public Loans Board. Councils themselves had not paid for the construction and so it was fair that when Council houses were sold, it was the Government that received the receipts. Councillor McGregor then accepted an intervention from Councillor Tony Louki, who considered that the right-to-buy policy had not worked; twenty years ago residents had complained that the Council was too slow in selling them the Council house in which they lived but then the resident, or their beneficiaries, often sold on the property and made a large profit. In addition, the Conservative Administrations in both the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea had sold off Council street based properties for large profits. Therefore the Conservative Group had no right to ask for more affordable housing. In response, Councillor McGregor observed that between 1952 and 1963 172 000 Council houses had been built – and so it was a Conservative Government that had solved the social housing problem. The Labour Administration’s plan as discussed at the recent Cabinet meeting was based on asset management rather than social need and, as part of that, Council houses were to be sold off. 16 Councillor David Hughes expressed support for the views of Councillor Louki. The Conservatives had failed to see the unwelcome consequences of the right-to-buy scheme which were now facing local authorities across London and elsewhere. Housing was a serious problem and he was certain that all Councillors would be aware of it from their surgeries. The Council was to be applauded for planning to build 3000 new Council houses but this would still not be enough to meet the demand. He considered that Conservative concerns on the matter were little more than “crocodile tears”. He did not believe that the Conservatives cared about social housing, and their actions in the past were the proof of this. Even Government money given as housing benefit really only went to benefit private landlords. A recent report by the GMB Union had identified that most former Council housing was now owned by companies in the City of London and not by private individuals. Councillor Samantha Davies noted that it was easy to criticise and hard to be constructive. Similarly it was easy to brand Conservatives as being from the “nasty party” but the Labour Group had done a deal with Brentford Football Club that was not for the good of residents and abandoned any pretence at providing affordable housing. She then defended the right-to-buy policy and explained that it gave many people their only chance of becoming house owners. Social housing could help people onto the property ladder rather than just renting and this was a good thing. However, there were still housing problems in London and right-to-buy was a historic policy, which meant that new ones were needed such as rent-to-buy. However, she considered that the Labour Party would not support such an idea. Councillor Elizabeth Hughes asked how many Members of the Conservative Group had ever been Council residents. She clarified that she had - and had been grateful to live in a decent house. She considered the comments from Conservative Members to be amazing and was appalled that a Conservative Think Tank had concluded that it would be a good thing for housing associations to have to sell off their properties to residents. She was irritated that many former Council houses were being sold on for enormous profits particularly when the original purchaser died. There had once been great social housing estates in the Borough but these had all gone; instead people could pay up to £1400 per week in rent to live in property that was once Council owned. However, she accepted that it was essential to manage what assets the Council maintained to make them do well, so asset management was an essential party of the Authority’s business. She considered that Council tenants should have as much right to live in a nice area as anyone else, and it was healthy for all parts of the Borough to have a mix of housing. However, she strongly objected to landlords “cramming” residents into properties; she had seen houses split up and knew of examples of four families living I what had once been a four bedroom house. She asked who was making money out of this and observed that the Duke of Westminster owned properties in Hounslow. She regretted how few people who bought Council houses in the Borough still lived in them. She regretted even more how much Council housing stock had been lost in this way. She concluded by advising the Conservatives not to lecture Members on social housing. Councillor Katherine Dunne echoed the sentiments of many Labour Members in not being willing to be listen to Conservative Members on the issue of social housing. Over 10000 properties had been lost under the right-to-buy policy; with the loss of property came the loss of rent. The Council was however trying to resolve the resulting problems by having built over 2500 new Council properties in the last four 17 years, with 3000 more planned for the current Council term. It was also her view that Council properties should be located all over the Borough and she stood by her comments on this which she had made at the Planning Committee and which had been quoted during the debate so far. The Labour Party was committed to providing social housing and so she did not see why the proposed amendment was needed as the Council was already doing this. She commented positively on Councillor Elizabeth Hughes sharing her views on living in Council housing. In turn, she noted that she (Councillor Dunne) was a young person but ineligible for social housing yet unable to afford to buy a house. As such, she was forced to live in rented accommodation. It was clear to all that there was a housing problem in London which needed to be addressed with a range of options. There being no more comments, the Mayor invited Councillor Dennison to sum up the debate on the third proposed amendment but he declined to do so, stating that no more needed to be said. The Mayor then put the proposed amendment to the vote and it was RESOLVED – That the proposed amendment not be approved. Members voted in the following way: Members in support of the proposed amendment: Councillors Peter Carey, Samantha Davies, Sam Hearn, Paul Lynch, Gerald McGregor, Sheila O'Reilly, Robert Oulds, Peter Thompson and John Todd. Members against the proposed amendment: Councillors Keith Anderson, Candice Atterton, Harleen Atwal Hear, Lily Bath, Raj Bath, Manjit Buttar, Ruth Cadbury, John Chatt, Samia Chaudhary, Bandna Chopra, Mel Collins, Steve Curran, Theo Dennison, Katherine Dunne, Colin Ellar, Richard Foote, Linda Green, Pritam Grewal, Puneet Grewal, Sachin Gupta, Bishnu Bahadur Gurung, Tina Howe, David Hughes, Elizabeth Hughes, Kamaljit Kaur, Gurmail Lal, Tony Louki, Mukesh Malhotra, Khulique Malik, Nisar Malik, Amrit Mann, Ed Mayne, Shaida Mehrban, Hina Mir, Alan Mitchell, Shantanu Rajawat, Daanish Saeed, Sue Sampson, Sohan Sangha, Myra Savin, Jagdish Sharma, Corinna Smart, Gurpal Virdi and Bob Whatley Proposed Amendment Four Councillor John Todd advised that proposed amendment four had been withdrawn. Substantive Item 18 The Mayor clarified that the debate would now move onto the recommendations in the original report which were unamended. As these recommendations had already been proposed and seconded, she invited Members to debate the proposals and the following comments were made: Councillor Peter Thompson stated that the Conservative Group was pleased to see the proposed continuation of the freeze in Council Tax which for most people was still the second largest bill they had to pay. He thought it fair to note that this freeze was supported by the Government’s Council Tax Freeze Grant, a fact detailed in the report itself but not highlighted. He stated too that the last Labour Government had not provided any similar kind of support to Councils. However, it was not his intention to dwell on the past but to look at the recommendations and to the future; all major political parties saw the need to make efficiencies and both the Labour and the Conservative Party were committed to continuing to make cuts in public expenditure after the forthcoming general election in May. The Conservative Group had studied the budget report in the agenda and would be happy to support most of it. However, it did have some concerns and reservations particularly in relation to the proposal to make Council staff pay for using the Civic Centre car park, reductions to the number of times grass cutting would take place in streets, the proposal to introduce the dimming of street lights at certain times, reducing the number of recycling sites, the rolling out of the wheelie bin programme across the Borough, significant reductions in funding to social community enterprise organisations by a quarter, increasing in charges in the music service, increasing the charge for using swimming pools and leisure centres, increasing parking costs and increasing the costs of the tidy town waste removal service. These proposals would offset the Council Tax freeze. By contrast, the 20062010 Administration had not just frozen the Council Tax, it had reorganised the Council to produce year on year savings which in turn had helped save the Leisure Services Department from going bankrupt when the Council’s external provider, CIP, had failed. The Council utilised its money effectively to ensure services continued, which otherwise might not have happened. It also spent money across the Borough and had prioritised investment in other libraries over Chiswick as their need at the time was greater. He confirmed that the Conservative Group would be willing to vote in favour of all the recommendations in the report except (vi) and (ix). He agreed with Councillor Dennison that putting together a balanced budget was a difficult task and acknowledged that it was harder for the current Administration than it had been in the past due to the ongoing economic situation; he too praised the work of officers who helped develop and draft proposals for inclusion, many of which never made it into the final budget proposals. However, he also expressed the view that it appeared that the Labour Group was running out of ideas and he foresaw that compiling a budget would be increasingly difficult next year and thereafter. However, for the good of all Borough residents, he wished the Labour Group success in doing so. At this point, Councillor Keith Anderson observed that the two and a half hour limit for the duration of the meeting was nearing and proposed that, in accordance with the Constitution, the relevant standing order be waived to allow the meeting to continue to permit the consideration on the budget and the remaining items on the agenda. The proposal was seconded by Councillor Melvin Collins. The Mayor therefore put the proposal to Members and it was unanimously 19 RESOLVED – That standing orders be waived to allow consideration and agreement of the budget and to determine the remaining items on the agenda. Councillor Ed Mayne welcomed the comments of Councillor Thompson as he expressed the view that the Labour Group believed in proper debate. Similarly, he also intended to look to the future but would commence by recalling the past: the 20062010 Administration oversaw a reduction in spending and he understood why the Conservative Group was proud of that. However, the Labour Group was concerned at the use of the voluntary redundancy programme that accompanied the savings which in effect resulted in people being paid to find new jobs. It also meant that a great deal of institutional knowledge and memory had left the building. There were also some increases in fees and charges across the Borough and he quoted the example of the cost of hiring the Isleworth Hall which had gone up at that time. He also noted that in 2010, the incoming Labour Administration had been unable to find any evidence by the outgoing Administration of planning for the next financial year. He recalled the Conservative Group criticising the Labour Opposition for not submitting alternative budgets during its time in opposition and since the situations had reversed since 2010, criticising the proposed budget reports. However, he believed that if the Conservatives had still been in office, they were likely to have been proposing very similar things to that which could be found in the report before Members. Councillor Gerald McGregor then requested a point of clarification in accordance with the Constitution: Upon taking office in 2006, the Conservatives had found that there were many posts on the Council’s establishment of staff which were unfilled and had been vacant for many years. It also found the organisation divided into 13 silo-like departments. It had therefore stripped out the vacant posts and took control of expenditure. The voluntary redundancy scheme that had been introduced had been a good one for both staff and the Council, and allowed many people to move from employment into caring roles and further education. The costs of the scheme had been borne from savings rather than tax increases. Councillor Mayne continued by advising that in his view, under a voluntary redundancy scheme, the wrong people often left the organisation and asked if he (Councillor McGregor) was proud of overseeing a loss of institutional knowledge and memory. Councillor Mayne then accepted an intervention from Councillor McGregor who disagreed that the Council had lost “the wrong kind of people” and not all applicants to the scheme had been permitted to leave. It had been carefully managed and a lot of people were retained who were deemed to be essential to the organisation at the time. The Council had also hoped to restructure the pay and grade system better to reflect the responsibilities of staff. Councillor Mayne did not agree with his analysis. Councillor Mayne recalled that Councillor Dennison in 2010 had said that the Labour Group would be happy to work with the Conservatives if the latter came up with genuine and constructive proposals. However, the comments from the Conservative Group so far had not been of this nature; there had been no mechanism proposed in the third amendment to allow the purchase of social housing. He then added that the Government had not been able to pay off the national deficit over the life of the current 20 Parliament and so concluded by expressing the view that the Conservatives had little of value to add to the debate. Councillor Steve Curran then made the following statement as part of the debate: “We need to put this budget report in context; in 2010 we received the most savage financial cuts ever imposed on local authorities by the Tory led coalition Government with a cut of 60 million pounds. I would like to thank the previous administration for setting a prudent budget that met the aspiration of our residents and the need to reduce costs without harming the most vulnerable residents and communities in Hounslow. Particular thanks should go to the former Leader Jagdish Sharma, Deputy Leaders Ruth Cadbury and Colin Ellar in delivering this. This report starts that process again and we should also remember that, unlike the previous Tory coalition in this Council in 2006-2010, not only did we freeze the Council tax but cut it twice, we kept our promise to the residents of Hounslow that is why we were re-elected so convincingly. Other examples why we can be trusted with the budget: We have delivered radical change in the restructuring of the Council whilst maintaining essential services to our most needy residents. We have taken on the work of public health and are working with our colleagues in the NHS to meet the new challenges. It is the Government’s top down restructuring of the NHS which has caused the massive increase in Accident and Emergency waiting times and the length of time you have to wait to see your GP and let’s not forget this was not in their party manifesto; the NHS clearly is not safe in their hands. At a stroke they cut the budget for improving our schools to the detriment of our students, we have without question some of the best state schools in the country with fantastic results and we have provided every child with the school place they needed in the face of unprecedented demand. At the gypsy and traveller site, Hartlands, we have started an ambitious refurbishment programme and have secured funding from the Greater London Assembly of £1.42 million. Another example demonstrating that we have a reputation for delivery and financial management. We have received since 2012 to date £20 million in new homes bonus, again another example of our sound financial management and as I have already mentioned we received £18.5 million from the Mayor’s housing zone fund which again demonstrates a confidence in us which is recognised by the Mayor’s office and central government, on top of this there are other examples of this Council leading the way. Our planning team is one of the top in country with Marilyn Smith, the Council’s Development Control Support Manager, being invited to Number 10 Downing Street to show them how it is done and our Rogue Landlords team being awarded best in class in the country. Our staff and our teams don’t achieve these awards because of poor leadership or poor political judgement, it is the exact opposite. We are a progressive Council who takes hard decisions even in the most difficult financial times which never forgets its commitments to the residents. That is why they voted for a Labour administration that knows how to improve the quality of services, cut costs and protect the most vulnerable. This report I believe is the stepping stone for us to achieve our financial targets and meet our manifesto commitments to the residents despite having 21 a coalition government hell bent on destroying local government by starving it of money. I am grateful for Councillor Denison for this report and I second it.” Councillor Sachin Gupta stated that the Council was being forced to make cuts rather than savings. However, the increases in fees and charges were minimal, in some cases as little as three pence, five pence and ten pence. In the case of the charge for the Chiswick Public Hall, the proposed increase was 35 pence up to a maximum of £1.90. He asked why the Conservatives were unable to support this. If they were not able to do so, they had clearly not thought very carefully about the proposed budget. He considered the budget amendments to be vague and suggested that the Conservatives should provide an alternative budget. He agreed that setting a budget was difficult and acknowledged that this had been recognised across the Council Chamber but he criticised the Conservatives for making savings in 2006 when they had no pressure to do so. He concluded by thanking Councillor Theo Dennison as Cabinet Member for Finance and Citizen Engagement and also Finance Officers for helping to develop the proposals before Members. Councillor Katherine Dunne reminded Members of the context of the budget which was the ongoing difficult economic situation. She accepted that Councillor Thompson had areas of concern in the proposals but clarified that they were not welcome to Labour Members either; they were the social cost of the austerity drive required of local Councils by the Government. The Council was doing what it could in the light of reduced Government funding. Another example of this was the Council Tax Reduction Scheme considered at the January meeting of the Council, the responsibility for which had been given to local government without the attached funding. This in effect meant that the scheme was not about tax cuts but a tax increase as it needed to be paid for. She noted that page fifty of the report identified that more misery for residents was expected following the implementation of the Government’s welfare reform programme, which would see housing benefit levels fall in real terms. The introduction of universal credit was also likely to see an adverse affect on vulnerable people in the Borough. She was aware of the past debates on whether the policy known as the bedroom tax was in fact the removal of a subsidy but she considered this fatuous as the effect was a tax on being poor, disabled, no longer having children living at home or not being able to move to a smaller property. Councillor Gerald McGregor praised the work of Clive Palfreyman, Tony Brown and other officers working in the Finance Team for the quality of the report before Members. He then observed that Ed Balls, the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer had attacked Government spending cuts as “unprecedented” but those implemented by the Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, Dennis Healey, in his emergency mini budget of December 1976 had been worse: At the time, Councils had been provided with only 67% of expected funding. Nobody liked spending cuts. He then addressed the proposals in the report relating to fees and charges and considered some of them to be incoherent or pointless: he observed that fee increases of mere pennies cost more to administer than they would raise. He noted the comments from Councillor Dunne but considered that people’s expectation to be too great; the economy was not strong enough to support what the Labour Party wanted to see done. The unemployment rate in the country was the lowest in Europe but still needed to be reduced. He accepted that it was difficult to get a tough budget carried out but Members needed to reMember its responsibilities related to the Council and its duties and not elsewhere. 22 Councillor Ruth Cadbury noted that the Conservatives had expressed concern about some of the details in the budget but had provided no alternatives to the proposals before Members. She considered that the comments were really aimed at helping provide support for Conservative candidates in the forthcoming general election. The Council was having to cut £13 million pounds proposed in the report, and local government was having to cut£2.6 billion overall – but the distribution of cuts was not shared equally and she gave the example of Wokingham which was not having to make any savings at all. This was the fault of the Government which had imposed cuts but had no interest in how they affected different Councils or their residents. In many places, local government services were becoming unviable. However, she stated that next year’s budget could be different as the forthcoming general election gave people the chance to vote out Conservative MPs who wished to see continued cuts in public services and the health service whilst supporting the rich and tax avoiders. It was her view that austerity politics was based on ideology. The Institute for Fiscal Studies had calculated that the approach to austerity implemented by the Government had reduced Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 5%. A Labour Government would raise school standards, increase opportunities for young people and repeal the bedroom tax policy. She congratulated officers for preparing a budget in such difficult circumstances and commended the Council for delivering truly affordable social housing and apprentices. Councillor Paul Lynch noted that Councillor Gupta had criticised Conservative Members for their concerns over raising fees and charges and had picked out some examples of small increases to suggest concerns were inappropriate. He therefore hoped to direct Councillor Gupta’s attention to pages 21-23 of Appendix B of the report where there were huge increases in charges for adult social care. He therefore considered that Councillor Gupta was perhaps being disingenuous by only highlighting increases of a few pennies. He noted too that there has been a “tendency to smugness” amongst Labour Members during the debate on the current number of Conservative Members sitting on the Council. He reminded them that this had nothing to do with the popularity or otherwise of Labour policies and was the result instead of the rising support for the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). He concluded by advising “less hubris, for nemesis follows”. Councillor Lily Bath thanked both officers and her fellow Cabinet Members for the budget report. She was pleased that it was trying to maximise resources in order to protect front line services. She then clarified that the proposal for the Two Bridges Day Centre detailed in the report would not see it close but was in fact merely the combination of two services onto one site as a rationalisation of resources which would also increase choice for users. Councillor Bath then accepted an intervention from Councillor Peter Thompson who observed that page 244 of the report stated that the Two Bridges facility would close and the proposal was headed “Combining in-house disability day services on to one site leading to the closure of the Two Bridges building”. As the report clearly said that this would be the case, he asked her to confirm whether or not Two Bridges Day Centre would close. In response, Councillor Bath clarified that the building itself would close but the service would continue. She accepted that the wording of the report might not have made that clear. Councillor Bath then continued that the combined service would help the needs of residents be met in a better way. In addition, the Care Act would be coming into force 23 in two months and would require the Council to meet the needs of users in a personalised way. She agreed with Councillor Lynch that there were indeed charge increases in adult social care which was because fees had been merely nominal in the past. This would no longer be the case, but she was confident that few residents would lose out on service as they would be means tested. The change had been made to help clarify the real cost of the service and would allow the Council also to provide it to people outside the Authority area at the correct rate. She expressed disappointment that the Conservatives were unlikely to vote for it but the change did not reflect their values. There being no more debate, the Mayor invited Councillor Dennison to sum up. In doing so, he made the following comments: He thanked all Members for their constructive comments during the preparatory stages of compiling the budget and also for the nature of the debate in the Council Chamber itself. He observed that the Conservatives were concerned about the closure of the Two Bridges Day Centre Building whilst requesting £1 million for the refurbishment of Chiswick Library without any suggestion on how this might be paid for. As such it was hard to understand their priorities. He noted too that the Conservatives wished the Council to acknowledge more strongly the financial support given by the Government to support the Council Tax freeze. However, the reality was that the money provided made very little difference; the £1 million provided by the Government equated to 0.16% of spending. He repeated that he had never seen any evidence of financial plans being drawn up by the outgoing 2006-2010 Administration when the Labour Group took office in 2010. He concluded by commenting that the Conservatives had criticised the proposed budget but not suggested how their proposed amendments might be funded. He therefore commended the budget to the Council. The Mayor put the recommendations in the report, with the exception of (vi) and (ix) to the vote and it was RESOLVED – That the recommendations be agreed. Members voted in the following way: Members in support of the recommendations: Keith Anderson, Candice Atterton, Harleen Atwal Hear, Lily Bath, Raj Bath, Manjit Buttar, Ruth Cadbury, Peter Carey, John Chatt, Samia Chaudhary, Bandna Chopra, Mel Collins, Steve Curran, Samantha Davies, Theo Dennison, Katherine Dunne, Colin Ellar, Richard Foote, Linda Green, Pritam Grewal, Puneet Grewal, Sachin Gupta, Bishnu Bahadur Gurung, Sam Hearn, Tina Howe, David Hughes, Elizabeth Hughes, Kamaljit Kaur, Gurmail Lal, Adrian Lee, Tony Louki, Paul Lynch, Mukesh Malhotra, Khulique Malik, Nisar Malik, Amrit Mann, Ed Mayne, Gerald McGregor, Shaida Mehrban, Alan Mitchell, Sheila O'Reilly, Robert Oulds, 24 Shantanu Rajawat, Daanish Saeed, Sue Sampson, Sohan Sangha, Myra Savin, Jagdish Sharma, Corinna Smart, Peter Thompson, John Todd, Gurpal Virdi and Bob Whatley There were no Members who abstained or voted against the recommendations. The Mayor then put recommendations (vi) and (ix) to the vote and it was RESOLVED – That the proposed amendment not be approved. Members voted in the following way: Members in support of the two recommendations: Councillors Keith Anderson, Candice Atterton, Harleen Atwal Hear, Lily Bath, Raj Bath, Manjit Buttar, Ruth Cadbury, John Chatt, Samia Chaudhary, Bandna Chopra, Mel Collins, Steve Curran, Theo Dennison, Katherine Dunne, Colin Ellar, Richard Foote, Linda Green, Pritam Grewal, Puneet Grewal, Sachin Gupta, Bishnu Bahadur Gurung, Tina Howe, David Hughes, Elizabeth Hughes, Kamaljit Kaur, Gurmail Lal, Tony Louki, Mukesh Malhotra, Khulique Malik, Nisar Malik, Amrit Mann, Ed Mayne, Shaida Mehrban, Alan Mitchell, Shantanu Rajawat, Daanish Saeed, Sue Sampson, Sohan Sangha, Myra Savin, Jagdish Sharma, Corinna Smart, Gurpal Virdi and Bob Whatley Members against the recommendations: Councillors Peter Carey, Samantha Davies, Sam Hearn, Paul Lynch, Gerald McGregor, Sheila O'Reilly, Robert Oulds, Peter Thompson and John Todd. Consequently, the Mayor clarified that all the recommendations in the report had been agreed, and so it had been RESOLVED – Section 1 - Revenue Budget and Council Tax 2015/16 Council Tax 1. In respect of the calculation and setting of council tax, that Borough Council resolves: (i) That it be noted that at its meeting on 13 January 2015, Cabinet calculated the council tax Base 2015/16 for the whole council area as 78,760.71 [Item T in the formula in Section 31B of Local Government Finance Act 1992, as amended (the “Act”)]. (ii) That the council tax requirement for the council’s own purposes for 2015/16 is £85,043,452 [Item R in the formula in Section 31B of Local Government Finance Act 1992, as amended (the “Act”)]. 25 (iii) That the following amounts be calculated for the year 2015/16 in accordance with Sections 31 to 36 of the Act: (a) £648,276,022 being the aggregate of the amounts which the council estimates for its total expenditure in accordance with the items set out in Section 31A(2) of the Act. (b) £563,232,570 being the aggregate of the amounts which the council estimates for its total income (including formula grant and council tax surplus payable for the year into its General Fund) in accordance with the items set out in Section 31A(3) of the Act. (c) £85,043,452 being the amount by which the aggregate (iii)(a) above exceeds the aggregate at (iii)(b) above, calculated by the council in accordance with Section 31A(4) of the Act as its council tax requirement for the year. (Item R in the formula in Section 31B of the Act). (d) £1,079.77 being the amount at (iii)(c) above (Item R), all divided by Item T at (i) above, calculated by the council, in accordance with Section 31B of the Act, as the basic amount of its council tax for the year. (iv) To note that for the year 2015/16 the Greater London Authority (GLA) has issued a consultation setting out its precept to the council in accordance with Section 40 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 for each category of dwellings in the Council’s area as indicated in the table below. (v) That the council, in accordance with Sections 30 and 36 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, hereby sets the aggregate amounts shown in the tables below as the amounts of council tax for 2015/16 for each part of its area and for each of the categories of dwellings. (GLA will approve its precept on 23 February 2015). Valuation Band Banding Factor Hounslow council tax (£) GLA council tax (£) Total council tax (£) A B C D E F G H 6/9 7/9 8/9 9/9 11/9 13/9 15/9 18/9 719.8 5 839.82 959.80 1,079. 77 1,319. 72 1,559. 67 1,799. 62 2,159. 54 196.6 7 229.44 262.22 295.00 360.56 426.11 491.67 590.00 916.5 2 1,069. 26 1,222. 02 1,374. 77 1,680. 28 1,985. 78 2,291. 29 2749.5 4 (vi) To note that the council’s basic amount of council tax for 2015/16 is not excessive in accordance with principles approved under Section 52ZB of the Local Government Finance Act 1992. 26 Collection Fund 2. In respect of the Council Tax support, that Borough Council approves: (i) Removal of the current 50% council tax discount for up to 12 months for properties undergoing structural alteration or major repair; (ii) Removal of the one month exemption for unoccupied and unfurnished properties Business Rates 3. Approve the introduction of Local reduction scheme to provide business rate relief to Hounslow business meeting the conditions to be accredited as London Living Wage employers. Revenue Budget 4. Approve a base budget, resulting in net operating expenditure, of £178,931,993 as referred to in paragraph 13.1 of the Budget Report. Inflation 5. Approve the allocation of £2,027,300 from the 2015/16 inflation budget (identified in the Medium Term Financial Strategy) as referred to in paragraph 8.1 of the Budget Report. Savings 6. Approve the second tranche of savings proposals set out in the report and appendix for the four year period 2015 – 2019. 7. Approve to earmark £13.1m to fund investment needed to deliver the savings as referred to in paragraph 9.1 of the Budget Report. Balances 8. Approve the use of £2m from the special contingencies reserve to top up the Performance Improvement Fund as referred to in paragraph 16.5 of the Budget Report. Fees and Charges 9. Approve the 2015/16 fees and charges as set out in Appendix B Section 2 - Housing Revenue Account Budget 10. That the 2015/16 HRA budget is adopted as set out in the Budget Report. This is estimating an in year deficit of £15.976m in 2015/16, resulting in an estimated balance on the HRA of £13.591m as at 31 March 2016. 27 11. To approve year 1 of the Capital Programme (2015/16), with total capital expenditure of £66.588m, including an addition to this to reflect unspent resources from 2014/15. 12. To note the remainder of the five year HRA Capital Investment Programme. 28 Section 3 - Capital Budget 2014/15 - 2017/18 13. To note the update on the planned capital programme from 2014/15 to 2017/18 as set out in Section 3 of the Budget Report Section 4 - Treasury Management Strategy, Investment Strategy, Prudential Indicators and Minimum Revenue Provision Policy 2015/16 14. To adopt the: Treasury Management Annual Strategy (set out in Section 4). Annual Investment Strategy (Appendix D) Statement on Minimum Reserve Provision (Appendix F) Prudential and Treasury Indicators (Appendix G) 15. To authorise the Assistant Director Strategic Finance to: Use short-term (temporary) borrowings. Use cash held in internal funds to offset the need to borrow externally. Subject to interest rates at the time of offer: a) to take long-term loans, as required, from the Public Works Loan Board. b) to take long term loans from the money market utilising any of the loan instruments available to the council as deemed most appropriate at the time of borrowing. Invest temporary surplus cash within constraints considerations with approved counterparties. of normal cash flow Maintain the approved counterparty list, making additions and deletions, and reviewing counterparty limits as necessary. Review and appoint external cash fund managers if appropriate if one-off lump sums are received, subject to specific conditions for investment. Review and implement all prudent debt management functions which are required to produce advantages to the council’s long term interest rate liabilities. Subject to available rental levels, to finance appropriate expenditure through leasing arrangements. ACTION BY: Assistant Director, Strategic Finance 6. Appointments to Committees and Other Bodies The Mayor sought nominations for any vacant positions. 29 It was proposed, seconded and RESOLVED – That Councillor Colin Ellar be appointed to the Membership of the Audit Committee and that he would also be appointed Vice-Chair of that body for the remainder of the municipal year. ACTION BY: Head of Democratic Services TO NOTE: All 7. Decisions Taken Under Urgency Arrangements (if any) Members considered a report by the Head of Democratic Services It was RESOLVED – That the information be noted. TO NOTE: All 8. Any Other Matters That the Mayor Considers Urgent There were no such items. 9. Date of Next Meeting It was noted that the next meeting of the Council was scheduled for Tuesday 24th March 2015 and would commence at 8.00pm in the Council Chamber. The meeting ended at 10.40 pm Mayor Minute Ends 30 Agenda Item 5 Report for: INFORMATION Contains Confidential or Exempt Information Title Member Reporting Contact Details For Consideration By Date to be Considered Implementation Date if Not Called In Affected Wards Keywords/Index 1. No Petitions Councillor Theo Dennison, Cabinet Member for Finance and Citizen Engagement Thomas Ribbits, Head of Democratic Services. Telephone: 020 8583 2251 Email: [email protected] Borough Council 24th March 2015 Not applicable See below Petitions Details of Recommendations Members are asked to: Note the petitions that have been forwarded to other formal bodies of the Authority for consideration; and Note the responses from members to any petitions heard at the meeting. If the recommendations are adopted, how will residents benefit? Benefits to residents and reasons why they will Dates by which they can benefit, link to Values expect to notice a difference Not applicable 2. Report Summary This report identifies the petitions previously presented to the Mayor for consideration by the full council or other formal bodies of the Authority. 3. Reason for the Report 3.1 At its meeting in July 2010, the Council agreed a new scheme for dealing with petitions. This was revised in January 2012, and allows for petitions to be considered either at borough council or by other formal bodies of the authority. 31 3.2 Below is a table of petitions received by the Mayor and the bodies which will be considering each one. This has been attached as an appendix to this report. 3.3 Under the petition scheme, some petitions may still be considered by the Council itself. In some cases the organisers or nominated spokesperson will introduce the petition, after which the relevant Cabinet Member or Committee Chair will respond (usually in writing) and Members will be invited to agree the response. The appendix to this report lists any such petitions. 3.4 The Scheme allows for one or more of the following outcomes: taking the action requested in the petition considering the petition at a council meeting holding an inquiry into the matter undertaking research into the matter holding a public meeting holding a meeting with petitioners referring the petition for consideration by the Council's Overview and Scrutiny Committee writing to the petition organiser setting out our views about the request in the petition Other responses 3.5 Attached as an appendix is a list of petitions received by the Mayor and the bodies at which they will be considered. Option As this report is for noting, there are no options to consider. Comments 4. Key Implications 4.1 The targets and measures in relation to each petition presented will be considered by the council body at which each petition is considered. 5. Financial Details Financial Impact On The Budget 5.1 There is no impact on the budget as this report is purely for information. Comments of the Assistant Director Strategic Finance 5.2 The Assistant Director, Strategic Finance has been consulted on this report and advises that the financial implications of any actions arising from these petitions will need to be considered at the appropriate time. 32 6. Legal Legal Details 6.1 There are no legal implications identified in the noting of this report. Further reports on petitions presented to other council bodies will include relevant legal comments in relation to the requests in each case as necessary. Comments of the Assistant Director Corporate Governance 6.2 The Assistant Director, Corporate Governance has been consulted on this report and has no comments. 7. Value For Money 7.1 The report is for noting and so there are no value for money implications. 8. Sustainability Impact Appraisal 8.1 The report is for noting and as such no appraisal is necessary. 9. Risk Management 9.1 There are no risks related to this report. 10. Links to Council Priorities 10.1 The consideration of requests in petitions presented to the Mayor relate to the Council’s priority to create an ambitious council which improves the lives of residents and works in a transparent way. 11. Equalities, Human Rights and Community Cohesion 11.1 The Council is not being asked to make any decisions on the petitions presented to it, and so there are no implications in relation to equalities, human rights and community cohesion. 12. Staffing/Workforce and Accommodation implications 12.1 The Council is not being asked to make any decisions on the petitions presented to it, and so there are no implications in relation to staffing or accommodation. 13. Property and Assets 13.1 The Council is not being asked to make any decisions on the petitions presented to it, and so there are no implications for property or assets. 33 14. Any Other Implications 14.1 There are no further implications. 15. Consultation 15.1 No consultation is required for this report. 16. Timetable for Implementation 16.1 The petitions presented to area forums or other council bodies would normally be considered at the next meeting of that body to take place. 17. Appendices 17.1 Appendix A comprises a table of petitions received by the Mayor and the bodies which will be considering each one. 18. Background Information 18.1 There is no background information and no background papers in relation to this report. 34 APPENDIX A PETITIONS TO BE CONSIDERED AT OTHER BODIES Please note that the petitions below which have been presented to the Mayor. In each case the relevant Cabinet Member has determined which body would be appropriate for them to be considered by. No Details 1 2 3 Signatu res Request to list 511 the Red Lion Pub in Isleworth as an Asset of Community Value Request creation 13 of a controlled parking zone in Albany Road, Brentford 839 Back the Council's campaign for a better not bigger Heathrow Cabinet Member Ward Committee Dealing (or alternative action) Isleworth and Brentford Area Forum (tbc) Cllr Sue Sampson Isleworth Cllr Amrit Mann Brentford Isleworth and Brentford Area Forum (tbc) Cllr Amrit Mann All Council REPORT ENDS 35 Agenda Item 6 Report for: ACTION Contains Confidential or Exempt Information No Title REG 279 Proposed Compulsory Purchase Order for Land at Hounslow Town Centre Member Reporting Cllr. Steve Curran, Cabinet Member [email protected] Contact Details Heather Cheesbrough ([email protected]) Cabinet – 17th March 2015 Council – 24th March 2015 See above 27th March 2015 For Consideration By Date to be Considered Implementation Date if Not Called In Affected Wards Keywords/Index Hounslow Central High Street Quarter 1 DETAILS OF RECOMMENDATIONS That Cabinet (a) Resolve that the use of Compulsory Purchase powers under section 226(1)(a), the power of acquisition by agreement under section 227 and the power to authorise interference with rights under section 237 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) and powers in relation to new rights under Section 13 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 are justified in order to facilitate the redevelopment and regeneration of the land outlined in the CPO Plan at Appendix 2 (‘the Order Land’) in line with the Hounslow High Street Quarter objectives. (b) Approve the draft London Borough of Hounslow (High Street Quarter) Compulsory Purchase Order 2015 as attached at Appendix 1, the map comprising the Order Land (‘the Order Land’) as attached at Appendix 2 and the draft Statement of Reasons made in support of the Order and attached at Appendix 3 (‘the Statement of Reasons’). The Order is required for both planning and regeneration purposes in order to enable the Council’s development partner, BDW Trading Ltd (BDW), to deliver the High Street Quarter development. (c) Resolve to authorise the making of the London Borough of Hounslow (High Street Quarter) Compulsory Purchase Order 2015 under section 226(1)(a) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended), subject to the prior 36 agreement of the Borough Council meeting in full council and a full indemnity for the costs of doing so. (d) To authorise the Director Regeneration, Economic Development and Environment ("the Director") to make changes to the draft Order, the Map (within the red line boundary as shown on the Map) and Statements of Reasons as considered necessary. (e) To authorise the use of powers in the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 to secure the removal of any apparatus of statutory undertakers or communication code operators from the Order Land shown in Appendix 2. (f) To authorise the acquisition by agreement of all third party interests in and over the Order Land under Section 227 and development of the Order Land notwithstanding the interference with third party rights under Section 237 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 before and after confirmation of the Order and in respect of any new rights required for the development or use of the Order Land. (g) To authorise the Director in consultation with the Assistant Director Corporate Governance or the Monitoring Officer ("the Assistant Director") to take all necessary steps to secure confirmation of the Order and the acquisition of all third party interests in the Order Land and any new rights and the removal of all occupants from the Order Land. This authorisation includes the publication and advertisement of the Order, serving appropriate notices, seeking confirmation of the Order, taking all steps to acquire relevant interests and such other steps as deemed appropriate by the Director in consultation with the Assistant Director to facilitate the development, redevelopment or improvement of the Order Land. (h) To authorise the Director in consultation with the Assistant Director to enter into agreements and make undertakings, contracts and transfers on behalf of the Council with third party interests in the Order Land or for the creation of new rights in favour of the Order Land or with parties otherwise affected by the Order, including for the withdrawal of objections to the confirmation of the Order and also including the offering back of any part of the Order Land or acquisition of additional land or interests in or over any such land and the removal of any land from the Order. (i) To authorise the Director and the Assistant Director to defend any proceedings challenging these decisions, and the making, confirmation or implementation of the Order or any notice, general vesting declaration or anything else made pursuant to the Order. (j) To authorise the Director in consultation with the Assistant Director following confirmation of the Order to publish and serve all appropriate notices of confirmation of the Order and to make one or more general vesting declarations or serve notices to treat and notices of entry (as appropriate) in respect of the Order Land. (k) To authorise the Assistant Director to initiate or take part in any arbitration or proceedings before the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) or the Courts in order to resolve any disputes as to compensation or other payments payable for any interests in the Order Land or arising from the making or confirmation 37 of the Order or securing possession of any part of the Order Land or title to any part of the Order Land or the removal of any occupants or apparatus of statutory undertakers or communication code operators. (l) To authorise entry into (a) a satisfactory Indemnity Agreement with BDW Trading Limited, and (b) a satisfactory Parent Company Guarantee with Barratt Developments PLC, which covers all the Council’s costs in and incidental to the making of a Compulsory Purchase Order or acquiring the Land by agreement. (m) To note that: (i) The Council and BDW Trading Ltd (whether separately or together) will continue to negotiate to acquire land needed to facilitate the High Street Quarter scheme by agreement throughout the CPO process. (ii) a deed of indemnity will be entered into with the Council's selected development partner before the Order is made, which covers the outstanding costs and liabilities associated with the recommendations and exercise of the delegated authorities referred to above pursuant to powers delegated to the Director of Regeneration, Environment and Economic Development by Cabinet in November 2013. (iii) the appropriation of Council owned land from the purposes for which it is currently held to planning purposes will be required under Section 122 of the Local Government Act 1972 to deliver the High Street Quarter objectives. This will need to be actioned once planning permission for the scheme has been obtained. (iv) the use of stopping up powers under Section 247 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) is likely to be required to deliver the High Street Quarter objectives and that where planning permission is granted for a scheme to deliver these objectives its use would be likely to be supported so that the Council could make and (in the absence of pertinent objections) confirm a stopping up order. (v) To note the outcome of the Equalities Assessment of the proposed Compulsory Purchase Order detailed in paragraph 11.4 -11.8 and the impact relating to the Human Rights Act 1998 in paragraphs 3.43-3.47 and in 3.60-3.62 and 11.00-11.3. (vi) the Council is satisfied that, through the provisions of the CPO Indemnity Agreement, Parent Company Guarantee and Development Agreement, it will not be providing an illegal indirect subsidy of State Aid to BDW Trading PLC in the use of its Compulsory Purchase and associated powers (including under section 237 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990). The Council is RECOMMENDED – To endorse and confirm the decision of the Cabinet 38 If the recommendations are adopted, how will residents benefit? Benefits to residents and reasons why they will benefit, link Dates by which they to Values can expect to notice a difference If the development Good Quality Homes and Jobs. proceeds, construction is The proposal would facilitate the delivery of the proposed scheduled to High Street Quarter development, a mixed use scheme commence in 2016 which would assist in regenerating Hounslow town centre with the first phases and provide new homes (including affordable housing). . of development completed and handed over for fit The Scheme will make a positive contribution to the out in 2018 improvement of the economic, social and environmental well-being of the area. 2 REPORT SUMMARY 1. This report recommends that the Cabinet resolve to use the Council’s compulsory purchase and associated powers (including those under Section 237 of the Town and County Planning Act 1990) to facilitate the High Street Quarter development (‘the Scheme’). It notes that the appropriation of Council owned land from the purposes for which it is currently held to planning purposes and the making of stopping up orders will be required to enable the Scheme to proceed. 2. These recommendations are being made to facilitate the redevelopment of the Land which requires the assembly of all of the necessary land and rights in a suitable timeframe to realise the opportunity offered by the Scheme. The High Street Quarter regeneration has wider public benefits that will improve the economic, social and environmental wellbeing of the area. 3. The Council and its development partner have continued to negotiate to acquire the necessary land and rights by agreement since the in-principle resolution made in December 2014 but have not been able to secure all interests in land required. Notices requisitioning information from persons in relation to the Land or other land pursuant to section 16 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 have been issued and the Council’s appointed land referencers have produced an accurate CPO Map and Schedule detailing all interests needed to be purchased in order to facilitate the scheme. 4. If adopted, the key financial implications for the Council are minimal. A CPO Indemnity Agreement has been negotiated and is ready to be executed. External consultant costs (as well as costs for officer time) for professional advice and the costs of external lawyers will be paid by the Developers together with all other promotional, inquiry and land assembly costs. 39 3 REASON FOR DECISION AND OPTIONS CONSIDERED 3.1 The decision to facilitate the redevelopment of the Land through the use of the Council’s compulsory purchase and associated powers is to ensure the delivery of the High Street Quarter in Hounslow Town Centre. The Scheme would involve retail, leisure and housing development in accordance with the Council’s policies. A planning application (reference 00616/F/P19) has been submitted involving the redevelopment of around 2.18 hectares of land to provide around 527 new homes, a multi-screen cinema, and circa 8,800 sq m (GIA) of new retail and restaurant floor space, intended to complement the existing High Street, Treaty Centre and Blenheim Centre, and delivery of significant improvements to the public realm in this area 3.2 You are referred to the Statement of Reasons (Appendix 3) which provides full details as to the: (i) background of the scheme; (ii) planning policy support for the scheme; (iii) the role of the Council’s development partner; (iv) the efforts to acquire by agreement; (v) the case for compulsory purchase. 3.3 The Statement of Reasons is a non-statutory document that is submitted with the CPO to the Secretary of State which explains the reasons and justifications for making the Order. It provides a comprehensive statement as to the foundation and objectives of the CPO. Negotiations are on-going with many of those affected by the CPO and the Statement of Reasons will be updated in advance of its submission to the Secretary of State to reflect the position at that time. 3.4 This report provides an update as to matters that have progressed since the Cabinet’s resolution of the 9th December 2014 for the in-principle use of the Council’s compulsory purchase powers in relation to the Scheme. Requisition of Information 3.5 On the 15 January 2015, acting on behalf of the Council, Persona Associates issued land information questionnaires under Section 16 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 to all persons who had an interest in property that was likely to be included in the CPO. This included persons who had an interest in land that was to be acquired, persons with an interest in land over which the Council would be seeking to acquire a right over, and persons with an interest in land which that property’s rights of light may be affected by the scheme. 3.6 After receiving a number of enquiries from owners seeking clarification as to how the Scheme was to impact specific property, the Council’s appointed 40 property consultants (GL Hearn) wrote to all parties whose property was not to be acquired but who, on account of the rights of light enjoyed by the property being affected by the scheme, needed to be included in the Compulsory Purchase Order as a person who may be entitled to receive compensation to explain why the letter had been received. GL Hearn also wrote to all of the owners of car parking spaces associated with the Blenheim Centre located within the surfaced car park located to the north-west of the Alexandra Road and Holloway Street Car Park re-affirming the Developer’s stated position at the public consultation that all of the spaces would be reprovided in the Scheme and the intention is for the spaces to be relocated as a one-off move. 3.7 The completed questionnaires (62% returned completed) have been used by Persona Associates to ensure that all reasonable endeavours have been to ensure an accurate and contemporary CPO Schedule. Land which is the subject of the CPO 3.8 The extent of the land included within the CPO has been refined since the report of the 9th December 2014. The boundary of the land to be included has remained largely unchanged: the red line boundary has been extended to cover rights over land required for the swinging of the jib of the crane during the construction of the Scheme. 3.9 The land to be acquired by the Council extends to: (i) all of the residential properties on the east side of Holloway Street (1347 Holloway Street inclusive); (ii) a portion of the service road for the Delivery Office that lies to the north of 47 Holloway Street; (iii) three commercial properties that are situated to the west and east of Smithy Lane (the central pedestrian footpath connecting the High Street and the Alexandra Road and Holloway Street Car Park), namely 174, 178 and 180 High Street; (iv) Smithy Lane itself; (v) Legal and General Assurance Limited’s freehold interest in the Blenheim Centre residents’ car park located to the north-west of the Alexandra Road and Holloway Street car park; (vi) Land located to the rear of 168 – 176 High Street which falls within the boundary of those properties will be acquired but no part of the building is to be purchased. 3.10 On completion of the scheme rights will be granted over the new service yard to the owners and occupiers of 168 - 176 High Street so they can service and access the rear of their properties. Pedestrian access to the rear of the properties will be maintained throughout the works. 3.11 Rights over land that are to be acquired include: (i) The land to the rear of 180 – 196 High Street that falls within the title of these properties – rights over this land will be secured for the 41 construction of the Scheme and the creation of a pedestrian footpath to allow all owners and occupiers of the High Street units access to and egress from the properties (including residential upper parts). (ii) The right to swing the jib of a crane over several properties for the purposes of the construction of the scheme; (iii) A right of way over Prince Regent Road to the benefit of the developers and the occupiers of the scheme. 3.12 The land to the rear of the properties known as 180-196 High Street will be reinstated on the completion of the works and rights of access granted over the newly created service yard. 3.13 Since the issue of the requisition notices, there have been increased levels of communication from the owners and occupiers of the properties affected by the scheme. The Council’s property consultants have been actively working to secure the properties required for the scheme by agreement. Further meetings have been held with Royal Mail Group as to the purchase of their land and the associated works that will be required and Heads of Terms which will form the basis of a legal agreement between the parties have been drafted and are being refined. 3.14 Discussions with the owners of the remaining Holloway Street houses have continued with assistance in finding a suitable relocation property being provided to all of the owner-occupier residents. 3.15 Discussions with Legal and General Assurance Limited have continued in respect of the acquisition of their freehold interests required for the scheme and progress is being made in this regard. 3.16 Meetings and/or discussions have been held with the commercial occupiers of the High Street properties that are required to be purchased for the Scheme with the focus being on advising them of the implications of the CPO and sourcing potentially suitable alternative accommodation. 3.17 Discussions have also been held with a number of the owners and occupiers of High Street properties who are having the land to the rear of their properties acquired/having rights acquired. Discussions have been positive and have focused on access arrangements both during the construction works and on completion of the development. Planning Proposal 3.18 In accordance with the Development Agreement, the Developers presented their proposal to Cabinet on the 12th February 2015 for their approval of the proposals as landowners. The proposal was formally approved on the 18th February 2015. 3.19 On the 27th February 2015 a planning application (reference 00616/F/P19) was submitted for the: 3.20 The demolition of commercial and residential properties, site clearance and redevelopment comprising; The construction of a mixed-use development 42 comprising five blocks with 527 residential units (311 Private units, 108 Shared Ownership units and 108 Affordable Rent units), a multiscreen cinema (Use Class D2) of 5,267 sqm (GEA), 9,830 sqm (GEA) of retail, restaurant and café uses (Use Classes A1, A2, A3, A4 & A5), infrastructure including 513 parking spaces, 686 cycle parking spaces, service areas, public realm incorporating pedestrian/cycle circulation areas with associated hard and soft landscaping and private amenity spaces.” 3.21 This was validated on the 5th March 2015 and the matter is expected to be presented to the planning committee in about July 2015. 3.22 The CPO will be made prior to the grant of planning permission for the scheme. Whilst planning permission has not yet been secured the scheme for which the CPO is being made to support, relates to the procured scheme which has been approved by the Council as landowner as meeting the parameters of the Development Agreement. 3.23 The CPO process is a lengthy one, with it expected that after the making of the Order it would be approximately six months before the commencement of a public inquiry (assuming that statutory objections are received and the Secretary of State concludes that one is required). If the Order were to be made at the end of March 2015, the public inquiry would likely be held in September/October by which time it is expected that the Planning Committee will have determined the application. 3.24 Whilst the developer is confident they have presented a fully policy complaint scheme, and have been in dialogue with the Council’s planning team in advance of submitting the application to obtain their feedback on elements of the development, there is a recognised risk that planning permission may not be granted. This risk will be evaluated prior to the making of the CPO but it is considered by both the Council as landowner and the Developer that there is no obvious reason why planning permission might be withheld and that any such permission is likely to have been granted by the time of the public inquiry. Indemnity Agreement 3.25 This report recommends that Members authorise entry into a CPO Indemnity Agreement with BDW Trading Limited and entry into CPO Indemnity guarantee (which shall be capped at £50,000,000) with Barratt Developments PLC (who are BDW’s parent company). The parent company guarantee will be effective in the event that BDW become insolvent and / or the Development Agreement is terminated. The indemnity agreement covers the costs and liabilities of the Council in all parts of the CPO process including, but not limited to: (i) all costs associated with the preparation and making of the CPO, including all professional fees incurred by the Council; (ii) all costs incurred by the Council in relation to any public inquiry or judicial review; (iii) any compensation that is payable for the acquisition of land or from the interference with the legal rights enjoyed by a property as a consequence of the construction of the scheme (including 43 compensation that is payable from the execution of the Council’s appropriation powers under s.237 TCPA 1990); (iv) 3.26 all costs associated with any reference made to the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber), either by the Council as acquiring authority or by a claimant, relating to the assessment of compensation following the acquisition of land or the interference with a right. The Council's costs incurred to the date of the Indemnity Agreement will be paid by BDW on the day the agreement is completed, both of which will occur before the Council will make the Order. Appropriation 3.27 The Council currently own the freehold interest in the Holloway Street and Alexandra Road Car Parks and twelve properties on Holloway Street. 3.28 The Alexandra Road and Holloway Street Car Parks are currently held by the Council for car parking purposes. This land will be subject to a decision to appropriate it to planning purposes once the CPO is confirmed. 3.29 It is considered that the Holloway Street houses were acquired for planning purposes, with use for residential accommodation in the interim before demolition. In those circumstances, it is not considered that appropriation will be necessary in respect of these properties. 3.30 The appropriation of other Council owned land from the purposes for which it is currently held to planning purposes will be required under Section 122 of the Local Government Act 1972 to deliver the High Street Quarter objectives. This will need to be actioned once planning permission for the scheme has been obtained. Stopping Up Order 3.31 Prior to commencement of the Scheme a Stopping Up Order must be obtained in respect of the highway at Holloway Street, Smithy Lane (the public footpath that runs between 174 High Street and 178 High Street) and Wells Lane (the road that runs to the south of the car park along the rear of the High Street properties). This Order is due to be made by the Council pursuant to S247 Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and in the absence of outstanding objections will be confirmed by the Council before the CPO is confirmed (to the extent it is possible and will be run concurrently with the CPO process. Justification for Seeking to Compulsorily Acquire the remaining third party interests and created associated rights for the High Street Quarter scheme 3.32 Circular 06/2004 is government guidance to acquiring authorities in England on the use of Compulsory Purchase Powers. The Circular sets out key tests that the Secretary of State will consider before a Compulsory Purchase Order can be confirmed. 44 3.33 The Council believes that there is a compelling case in the public interest to justify interfering with owners human rights. This is fully detailed in the 9 December Cabinet Report and Section 10 of the Statement of Reasons Human Rights 3.34 The Human Rights Act 1998 prohibits public authorities from acting a way which is incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights. The Council is therefore required to consider whether its exercise of powers would infringe the human rights of anyone affected. 3.35 It is acknowledged that the compulsory acquisition of the Order Land or the creation of new rights is likely to amount to an interference with the human rights of those with an interest in the Order Land. These include rights under article 1 of the first protocol of the European Convention on Human Rights ("ECHR") (which provides that every natural or legal person is entitled to peaceful enjoyment of his possessions and no one shall be deprived of his possessions except in the public interest and subject to the conditions provided for by the law). 3.36 The Council considers that the use of compulsory purchase and associated powers in relation to the Land is in the public interest, and the use of such powers is proportionate to the ends being pursued. Full details as to the economic, social and environmental wellbeing benefits of the scheme are detailed in the Statement of Reasons. (VII) 4.1 KEY IMPLICATIONS Targets and measures to be explained here using either paragraphs or table below or both. How is success to be measured? Defined Unmet Met Outcomes Facilitation of delivery of project (VIII) Acquisition of third party interests unable to be agreed or CPO not made and therefore project benefits to the town not delivered and the regeneration of the town inhibited. Exceeded Acquisition of third party interests agreed or CPO confirmed. Development of a key regeneration site realised and projected benefits for the town delivered POLICY CONTEXT 45 A significant portion of land acquisitions achieved through negotiation Significantly Date they Exceeded should be deliver by All land 2018 acquisition to be achieved through negotiation. 3.37 The Unitary Development Plan (adopted 2003), the emerging Local Plan and the Hounslow Town Centre Masterplan (published December 2013) all identify the Hounslow High Street Quarter Site as a key development site within the borough and one that, through the bringing forward of a mixed-use development of the land, will significantly benefit the vitality and viability of Hounslow Town Centre. 3.38 The site is allocated within the UDP as Proposal Site M8 and the Emerging Local Plan allocates the High Street Quarter site for mixed use development with leisure, commercial (retail) and residential uses, making reference of the Hounslow Town Centre Masterplan as to what could be delivered on site. 3.39 Full details as to the planning policy for the development of the High Street Quarter site can be found in the Draft Statement of Reasons [Appendix 1] (IX) FINANCIAL DETAILS a) Financial Impact On The Budget (Mandatory) i) It is proposed that a CPO Indemnity Agreement which covers all costs associated with the preparation and making of the CPO, and any compensation that is payable for the acquisition of land will be entered into with the Developer, BDW Trading Ltd. b) Comments of the Assistant Director Strategic Finance i) This report recommends that Members authorise the signing of a CPO Indemnity Agreement with BDW and a Parent Company Guarantee with BDW’s parent company guarantor (Barratt Developments PLC) which will provide the Council with assurance that Hounslow will ultimately bear no cost in relation to this project. ii) The CPOIA includes provision for full reimbursement of internal and external costs, and limits the impact of cashflow on the Council (where the Council prefunds activities for which it is later reimbursed). iii) The Indemnity Agreement also allows for full reimbursement of costs incurred by the Council ahead of an early termination of this project (should that occur) either before or after property and/or land and/or other rights have been compulsorily purchased. iv) In the event of a developer default the Council choose to mitigate the risk of carrying surplus stock by deploying for use as Temporary Accommodation as is now the case with some units previously purchased as part of this development. (X) LEGAL DETAILS Making a CPO a. The making of a compulsory purchase Order under S.226 (1) (a) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 is a function which Cabinet may exercise 46 together with Borough Council, in accordance with the provisions of the Council’s Constitution. b. Section 226 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 enables a local authority to exercise its compulsory purchase powers: (1) If it considers that acquiring the land in question will facilitate the carrying out of development, redevelopment, or improvement on, or in relation to, the land being acquired (s.226(1)(a)); and (2) Provided that it considers that the proposed development, redevelopment or improvement is likely to contribute to achieving the promotion or improvement of the economic, social or environmental well-being of its area (s.226(1A)). c. The Council must therefore be satisfied that both of these elements are satisfied in relation to the proposed Order. Officers consider that both of these considerations are fulfilled and the basis for this is detailed in Section 10 of the Statement of Reasons. d. The Cabinet is asked to resolve to make a CPO for the purpose of facilitating the comprehensive redevelopment of the Land to enable the delivery of a mixed-use development comprising of a multi-screen cinema, retail accommodation, restaurant/café accommodation and housing, public realm and connectivity improvements which overall will make a major positive contribution to the economic, social and environmental wellbeing of the area. Confirmation of a CPO and Acquisition of the Land e. If the Council resolves to make the CPO, the Order must be submitted to the Secretary of State for confirmation, notified to those persons affected by it and advertised in the local press. f. Any party who wishes to object to the making of the CPO at that point would have 21 days within which to do so from the date of notification. All statutory objectors have a right to be heard at a public inquiry although it is possible for the Secretary of State to deal with objections in writing. Although any Inquiry will be held on the earliest possible date, typically this could be six months or made after submission of the Order to the Secretary of State. g. The Council cannot actually exercise its compulsory purchase powers until such time as the CPO has been confirmed by the Secretary of State or the Secretary of State permits the Council itself to confirm the CPO. h. Following confirmation of a CPO the Council has three years within which to exercise the CPO powers. Once the interests included in the proposed CPO area have been acquired for planning purposes, the site will benefit from the operation of Section 237 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, which (subject to the payment of compensation) overides all existing 47 third party rights that could prevent the development or use of the land from proceeding. The costs of compensation will be limited to the statutory basis as provided by section 237 of the 1990 Act (as amended). Legal Challenge i. Decisions made in the Compulsory Purchase context are subject to challenge on public law grounds in the usual way. b) Comments of the Assistant Director Corporate Governance The comments of the Assistant Director Corporate Governance have been included in the Report. (XI) SUSTAINABILITY IMPACT APPRAISAL a. The delivery of the High Street Quarter development, which will be facilitated by the CPO process, will provide for a mixed-use scheme that provides well-designed homes, improved leisure facilities and a safer, more attractive environment. b. Key environmental benefits are: Re-use of a previously developed site for a mix of uses including housing offsetting need for greenfield development; Regeneration of unsightly brownfield land of low townscape value, thereby enhancing the appearance of town centre and acting as a catalyst for improvements to nearby areas. Creation of new and enhanced public realm in the centre of the development which will significantly improve the town centre’s existing offer. The new town square will be available for performance and events space and will significantly improve the local environment of this area. New paving, street tree planting, lighting and pathways will enhance the permeability of the area linking the Blenheim Centre to the north and the High Street to the south. All of the residential units to be delivered are designed to Lifetime Homes’ Standard with 10% of the units designed to be wheelchair accessible. Improvement to an area of the town centre that lacks security and can be subject to anti-social behaviour. (XII) RISK MANAGEMENT a. The Council’s CPO powers are in themselves an important risk management tool. The authority to progress the use of these powers ensures that where negotiations to buy interests by agreement have been unsuccessful, the Council can achieve vacant possession in a timely manner and avoid the risk of delay in delivering the regeneration scheme and the longer term 48 viability of Hounslow Town Centre. Such a delay and uncertainty could result in the development not proceeding. b. The exercise of CPO powers can be controversial and the Council is managing the potential risk through continued consultation and engagement with WBBL and affected occupiers and stakeholders. c. A CPO Indemnity Agreement which covers all costs associated with the preparation and making of the CPO, and any compensation that is payable for the acquisition of land has been executed with the developer. (XIII) LINKS TO COUNCIL PRIORITIES a. The proposed redevelopment would help achieve the objectives of the Unitary Development Plan, the Hounslow Town Centre Masterplan and the emerging Local Plan in bringing forward the redevelopment of the site for mixed use development. The site is identified in all of these documents as a key development opportunity and the realisation of this development will bring significant economic, environmental and social benefits to local residents and businesses including jobs, new homes, the creation of an evening economy and improvements to the public realm. b. Facilitating the development through the use of the Council’s compulsory purchase powers will enhance the vitality and viability of the town. The development will bring a £210 million investment in Hounslow Town Centre from the private sector achieving objectives IMP 2, IMP3 and IMP 4 as set out in the UDP. The scheme will also deliver new housing which will contribute towards meeting the housing targets set by the London Plan. c. Good quality homes and jobs – pledges; Secure a further 3000 affordable homes Provide 300 apprenticeship places for young people and more local skills training Regenerate Brentford and Hounslow town centres (XIV) EQUALITIES, HUMAN RIGHTS AND COMMUNITY COHESION The Human Rights Act 1998 protects particular European convention rights to include: 49 (a) the right of everyone to the peaceful enjoyment of their possessions, which can only be impinged upon in the public interest and subject to relevant national and international laws (Article1); (b) the right to a fair and public hearing for those affected by the making of the CPO (Article 6); (c) the right to a private and family life, home and correspondence, which again can only be impinged upon in accordance with law and in the public interest (Article 8). a. In light of the matters detailed in this report, the exercise of the proposed compulsory purchase powers is justified on the basis that it is in the public interest, authorised by law and necessary and proportionate towards achieving the regeneration of the Hounslow Town Centre. The CPO will also contribute towards meeting the Council’s priority to promote mixed communities in well-designed neighbourhoods. b. The proposed CPO will be consistent with Article 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998. All those affected will be informed and advised of a right to make representations to the Secretary of State, to be heard at a public inquiry and have fair entitlement to compensation. There are four categories of interests affected by the proposal; Category 1: Owners affected by acquisition of their entire property; Category 2: owners affected by acquisition of part of a property; Category 3: Interference with Rights/ New Rights Acquired over land and Category 4: Relocation of car parking spaces. c. The Council has to take account of its Equalities Duties under the Equality Act 2010, in particular, the provisions under section 149 of the Act to: (a) Eliminate discrimination, harassment, victimisation and any other conduct that is prohibited by the Act; (b) Advance equality of opportunity between persons who share a relevant protected characteristic and person who do not share it; (c) Foster good relations between equalities groups. d. The Council has considered the relevance of the proposal to the provisions of the Equality Act 2010 and found no evidence to substantiate any adverse impact on grounds of Equality. To state the obvious, property is of great financial and sentimental value to those who have an interest in it. It is therefore inevitable that decisions of public bodies to acquire land under Compulsory Purchase Orders, albeit to enable new development will often be experienced negatively. However, this adverse impact has no bearing on the Equalities obligations as it requires evidence of unfavourable treatment on grounds of an equality characteristic. In this case, the specific equalities characteristics of the owners of the affected residential and commercial properties are not known but with the exception of disability or any language barriers, the relevance of other equalities characteristics to the CPO is not immediately apparent. 50 e. Disability is likely to be a relevant characteristic if owners are in properties which have adapted features or if there are clearly designated disabled bays lost in the acquisition of land. Due regard will need to be given to disability equality or language needs to ensure that these factors are taken into account when engaging with owners and when sourcing suitable alternatives. f. It is considered that those affected are from diverse ethnic backgrounds reflecting the demographic makeup of the Borough but this of itself has no bearing on the substantive equality duty. All affected parties have been approached in the same way with a strong effort to engage with them through regular correspondence. They have also been sent letters to discuss how the proposed redevelopment will impact their property and to progress discussions for the acquisition of the land by agreement. They have also been offered assistance to source suitable replacement and this provides all owners with the opportunity to raise any equality issues which are of concern to them. However, to-date no feedback has been received to suggest that equality is a relevant factor for the proposed CPO. g. If equality related issues emerge during the course of negotiations or when securing agreement, then this should be responded to on an individual basis as it relates to the specific property and its owner. Therefore, a Full Equality Analysis is not considered necessary. (XV) STAFFING/WORKFORCE AND ACCOMMODATION IMPLICATIONS: a. The Council will need to cover legal and officers input into the preparation and support of the CPO. To date this has included preparing the Statement of Reasons and in the future will include the preparation of a Statement of case to support the order and potentially the preparation of evidence for a public inquiry. The CPO Indemnity agreement will cover the financial costs of all Council input including officer time and external consultant’s fees, including legal advice and property support, in the preparation of the necessary CPO documents including the Statement of Case and preparation of evidence to the inquiry. (XVI) PROPERTY AND ASSETS a. The Council owns the freehold interest in the Alexandra Road and Holloway Street car parks as well as a number of the residential properties on Holloway Street. The whole site will continue to be owned by the Council with a long lease or series of long leases granted to the developer allowing for the construction of the scheme. The Council will receive a capital receipt on the grant of the lease and thereafter a share of the income generated from the development. (XVII) CONSULTATION 51 a. In July, the developers contacted all of the affected parties directly inviting owners and occupiers of properties required for the scheme the opportunity to discuss the proposals and how their property will be impacted, including identifying any specific issues relating to the property. A number of meetings have been held and these will continue throughout the process for those who have interests in the red line area. b. All parties with an interest in the CPO Land will be notified of the intention to commence the CPO process. (XVIII) TIMETABLE FOR IMPLEMENTATION a. Authorisation is sought to make the London Borough of Hounslow (High Street Quarter) Compulsory Purchase Order 2015. If received, the Order will likely be submitted to the Secretary of State at the end of March. 17. Appendices 1. 2. 3. 18. Draft Statement of Reasons Draft CPO Schedule Draft CPO plan Background Information 1) Property Development Agreement relating to High Street, Hounslow 2) CPO Strategy Hounslow High Street Quarter REPORT ENDS 52 THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HOUNSLOW (HOUNSLOW HIGH STREET QUARTER) COMPULSORY PURCHASE ORDER 2015 SECTION 226(1)(a) OF THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 AND SECTION 13 OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1976 AND THE ACQUISITION OF LAND ACT 1981 STATEMENT OF REASONS OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HOUNSLOW FOR THE MAKING OF THE COMPULSORY PURCHASE ORDER 53 TABLE OF CONTENTS Contents 1 INTRODUCTION 1 2 BACKGROUND 3 3 DESCRIPTION OF THE ORDER LAND 7 4 SCHEME DELIVERABILITY 12 5 PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS IN RELATION TO THE ORDER LAND 16 6 OTHER COUNCIL PUBLICATIONS AND INITIATIVES 19 7 THE PROPOSALS FOR THE SCHEME 22 8 EFFORTS TO ACQUIRE BY AGREEMENT 25 9 ENABLING POWERS 27 10 THE CASE FOR COMPULSORY PURCHASE 27 11 HUMAN RIGHTS 31 12 EQUALITIES 31 13 OTHER ORDERS 32 14 CONSERVATION AREA AND LISTED BUILDINGS 33 15 SPECIAL CATEGORIES OF LAND 33 16 CONCLUSION 33 17 CONTACTS FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND NEGOTIATION 34 18 DOCUMENTS TO BE REFERRED TO IN THE EVENT OF A PUBLIC INQUIRY 34 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 54 Contents (i) 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 The London Borough of Hounslow (the "Council") has made the London Borough of Hounslow (High Street Quarter) Compulsory Purchase Order 2015 ("the Order") under section 226(1)(a) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and section 13 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976. This document is the non-statutory Statement of Reasons ("Statement") prepared on behalf of the Council in accordance with Circular 06/04 to explain the reasons and justifications for making the Order. 1.2 The Council has made the Order to secure outstanding interests and associated rights and thereby facilitate the carrying out of the High Street Quarter regeneration proposals [in accordance with the following purposes for which the land included in the Order (the "Order Land") is being acquired: (a) facilitate the redevelopment of the Holloway Street and Alexandra Road surface car parks and other parts of the Order Land as a high quality and vibrant mixed use area in the heart of the town centre providing a place to shop, be entertained and live; (b) improve the physical environment, including enhancing connectivity, within the town centre (and in particular between the existing Blenheim Centre and the High Street) by creating a new town centre square (c) enable the provision of leisure uses and an enhanced retail offer that will contribute to strengthening and diversifying the town centre economy, including improving the night-time economy; (d) deliver market and affordable housing in a sustainable location (the "Scheme"). 1.3 The Order has been submitted to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government for confirmation. If confirmed, the Order will enable the Council to acquire compulsorily the land included in the Order and new rights in order to facilitate the Scheme. 1.4 This Statement explains why the Council considers that, for the purposes of the powers enabling the Order (detailed in Section 9), the Scheme will contribute to: (a) the development, redevelopment or improvement of the Order Land; (b) improving the economic and social well-being of Hounslow town centre through the enhanced retail and leisure offering and additional employment opportunities and the provision of new mixed tenure housing; 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 55 Page 1 (c) the environmental well-being of the area as a consequence of the public realm improvements facilitated by the Scheme. 1.5 The Order Land is located in Hounslow Town Centre and comprises approximately [** ] hectares of land. The extent of the Order Land is shown on edged red on the Order Map appended to this Statement. 1.6 The Order Map identifies the Order Land proposed to be acquired (coloured pink) and the Order Land on, over or under which new rights are to be acquired (coloured blue). These are annexed to this Statement. 1.7 The total area of land to be acquired is [** over [** ] square metres. New rights are sought ] square metres of land. The land proposed to be compulsorily acquired and the new rights sought, is set out in greater detail in section 3. 1.8 The Council currently own the freehold interest in the Holloway Street and Alexandra Road car parks together with the following residential properties, all of which fall within the CPO Plan boundary: 1.9 (a) 21 Holloway Street (b) 23 Holloway Street (c) 27 Holloway Street (d) 29 Holloway Street (e) 31 Holloway Street (f) 33 Holloway Street (g) 37 Holloway Street (h) 39 Holloway Street (i) 41 Holloway Street (j) 43 Holloway Street (k) 45 Holloway Street (l) 47 Holloway Street A copy of this Statement, the Order and the accompanying maps and background documents are available for inspection at the times locations and locations detailed below: (i) London Borough of Hounslow Offices, Civic Centre, Lampton Road, Hounslow TW3 4DN (Monday to Friday 9am-5pm) 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 56 Page 2 (ii) Hounslow ] Library, [Treaty Centre, High Street, Hounslow, TW3 1ES] (Mon (9:30am – 5:30pm), Tues (9:30am – 8pm), Weds (9:30am – 5:30pm) , Thurs (9:30am – 8pm), Fri 9:30am – 5:30pm), Sat (9:30am – 5:30pm),), Sun (11:30am – 4pm), 1.10 It is also available to view at www.hounslow.gov.uk. 2 BACKGROUND 2.1 Town Centre Vision and Needs 2.1.1 The regeneration of Hounslow Town Centre and been a long standing aspiration of the Council. Planning policy has been adopted by the Council which underpins its Town Centre vision (see further Section 5) and it is a corporate objective and priority to facilitate the Town Centre's redevelopment. 2.1.2 The Council has identified the High Street Quarter as playing an integral role in the regeneration of the Town Centre. There has been a lack of retail and leisure development in the Town Centre in recent years resulting in a shortage of larger units suitable for modern retailers. The Town Centre offer has been limited by this and trade has been lost to competing centres. 2.1.3 Whilst the Town Centre's has strengths in terms of the Treaty Centre, a library and good public transport accessibility, it lacks a focus and has limited leisure facilities. That is reflected in the existing development plan policies for the Town Centre: (a) Policy IMP.2.2 („Regeneration of Hounslow Town Centre‟) of the Unitary Development Plan (adopted December 2003, UDP), which set regeneration objectives for Hounslow town centre. Para 2.11 of the policy reasons state that Hounslow will continue to be vulnerable to improvements in other centres and any new out of centre development without investment, in particular to extend the shopping and leisure offer in the centre. (b) UDP Proposals Site M8 (now the High Street Quarter site) is identified as providing the opportunity to accommodate a mixed use development comprising new retail, commercial, residential and leisure facilities and a town square. 2.1.4 Since the UDP was adopted, phase 1 of the Blenheim Centre development was completed in 2006 and whilst this delivered new residential and retail space to the town centre, it did not deliver the consented multiplex cinema, leisure and recreational facilities, town square, and restaurants which all formed part of phase 2 of the development. The retail space delivered within phase 1 is predominately convenience shopping floor space (occupied by ASDA) and, by itself, does not deliver the quantum of comparison goods and leisure accommodation that is required to strengthen Hounslow Town Centre‟s role as a major shopping, commercial, 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 57 Page 3 leisure and social activity centre. The expansion of leisure and entertainment uses was recognised by UDP Policy IMP2.2 as being of particular importance in the development of the town centre‟s role outside shopping and working hours. 2.1.5 Taking into consideration population growth, spending habits and the growth of e-tailing, the Council's Retail Needs Study (Update for Hounslow (January 2013, RNS) identified that there is a requirement in Hounslow town centre for additional comparison goods space (i.e. retail only, excluding leisure) of between 8,800 sq. m. and 17,200 sq. m. (gross) in the period to 2021. The large range in requirement reflects three scenarios: (a) a constant market share (9,600 sq. m.), in which it is assumed the Town Centre maintains its existing market share; (b) an adjusted market share (8,800 sq. m.) reflecting the estimated impact of major new schemes on the Town Centre‟s market share; (c) an aspirational market share (17,200 sq. m.) in which it is assumed that Hounslow town centre achieves a fair and equitable distribution of retail provision against other boroughs. 2.1.6 The RNS also identified that Hounslow Town Centre is under-trading. The Town Centre Health Check (2011) reported that: “Overall, Hounslow Town Centre includes a fair range of retailers, but falls short of those that are present in more strongly performing town centres such as Kingston or Ealing. Hounslow lacks a standard Marks & Spencer and major fashion retailers such as Next, Gap, H&M and Office….It is expected that the range and quality of comparison retail in Hounslow Town Centre will be enhanced as a result of the regeneration initiatives taking place and future redevelopment”. 2.1.7 With changing shopping habits, the provision of a quality leisure offer is increasingly important in creating a healthy town centre. A high quality offer of cafés, restaurants and other leisure facilities such as a cinema and bars provide visitors to the Town Centre with a comprehensive offer that improves dwell time and retail spend. At present the leisure offer in the Town Centre is limited, particularly in the primary retail area with the Town Centre Health Check (2011) recording that the representation of non-A1 retail units in the primary frontage is very low. 2.1.8 Hounslow Town Centre currently lacks a multiplex cinema and restaurant offer, with the nearest multiplex cinema being sited roughly 3.5 miles away in Feltham. Local residents must currently travel to Feltham to visit a cinema and without an anchor leisure destination the evening trade in the Town Centre is minimal. 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 58 Page 4 2.1.9 Hounslow Town Centre has a significant under representation of national retail and restaurant operators by comparison to towns with similar catchment populations. Except for the Blenheim Centre, which opened in 2006 comprising a large Asda foodstore, with an ancillary retail and leisure offer, Hounslow Town Centre has not seen a significant retail, or, leisure development since the Treaty Centre in 1987, which has resulted in a shortage of larger format units suitable for modern retailers. Next and H&M have recently opened new stores in the Treaty Centre, through the creation of two larger format units within the envelope of an existing building and there is an identified need for additional retail floorspace within Hounslow Town Centre. 2.1.10 The Town Centre's retail and leisure offer therefore needs to be revitalised to protect its vitality and viability and maintain its position relative to neighbouring Metropolitan Town Centres 2.2 Housing Needs 2.2.1 Against a background of a significant need for new homes in London, Policy 3.3 (Increase Housing Supply) of the London Plan (Revised Early Minor Alterations, October 2013) states that every appropriate opportunity should be taken to maximise the provision of residential development with London boroughs. It goes on to identify that „at least‟ an annual average of 32,210 net additional homes should be provided across London. The Mayor therefore supports the provision of housing over and above this level. 2.2.2 For Hounslow, the „minimum‟ ten year target is set at 4,750. The Draft Further Alterations to the London Plan [to be adopted March 2015] (FALP) set a minimum ten year target for additional housing supply in the London and the figure for the Borough of Hounslow is updated from 4,750 as above, to 8,222 homes, with an annual monitoring target of 822 homes. 2.2.3 Whilst the Council‟s latest Annual Monitoring Report (2012-13) highlights that the estimated capacity for allocated sites and other sources across the Borough will exceed the 2011 London Plan minimum target over the plan period, it does not address the position with respect to the higher FALP requirement. Uncertainties over delivery make it particularly difficult to predict, with any accuracy, when some sites, particularly the larger ones, are likely to come forward. In these circumstances, and against the background of the policies of the NPPF and the London Plan, there is clear policy requirement to deliver new homes particularly in central sustainable locations where they are co-located with a mix of uses. 2.3 Opportunity 2.3.1 The Town Centre Health Check [2011] describes the Holloway Street and Alexandra Road car parks as an area of poor environmental quality. Whilst the provision of adequate parking is vital to the prosperity of a town centre, surface car parks in dense and highly populated 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 59 Page 5 urban town centres are an underutilisation of land, particularly when contrast with the Town Centre‟s need for additional retail, leisure and housing accommodation and the ability to continue to provide parking on site though more efficient land use, in this case through the creation of a basement car park. 2.3.2 The Scheme provides the opportunity for Hounslow Town Centre to be substantially regenerated and it is anticipated that the development will act as a catalyst for further regeneration in the town and surrounding area. Consumer and investor confidence in Hounslow and the town centre in particular will be enhanced. 2.3.3 The Council's evidence base for the submission Hounslow Local Plan confirms that the comprehensive development of the Order Land provides the opportunity to: (a) create a modern shopping environment with enhanced consumer choice of where to shop; (b) provide improved leisure opportunities in the Town Centre, including a modern cinema and family orientated restaurants, integrated within the shopping experience and adding to the attraction of the town centre, which encouraging dwell time, additional spend and providing a higher degree of attraction for families; (c) deliver a high quality and vibrant area in the heart of the town centre, that through the creation of a new multi-purpose public space provides the opportunity for formal and informal gatherings, places for events and markets, and spaces for sitting, resting, relaxing and play; (d) Improve pedestrian movements through the town centre by maximising permeability through the Order Land and from integration with the High Street; (e) Provide private and affordable housing units that are built to lifetime homes standards and meet Level 4 of the Code for Sustainable Homes meeting housing need; (f) st The promotion of a well-designed development that meets the needs of 21 century urban living and contributes positively to the character of the area. 2.3.4 Comprehensive development will contribute to addressing the critical needs of Hounslow Town Centre to allow it to compete effectively with neighbouring towns and out of centre destination such as Kingston, Richmond, Feltham, Staines, Ealing, Uxbridge and Westfield in White City. 2.3.5 The proposed development will allow Hounslow Town Centre to offer a better retail and leisure choice for consumers in a town centre location that is well served by all methods of 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 60 Page 6 transportation and deliver much-needed housing, including the delivery of a significant provision of affordable units. 2.4 Recent Planning History 2.4.1 The Council granted planning permission (ref: 00616/F/P5) for the development of the whole of the High Street Quarter site, including the Order Land of the now constructed Blenheim Centre on 31 July 2002. Together the sites were known as Key Site 1. 2.4.2 The consented Scheme was for a mixed redevelopment including a multiplex cinema, leisure and recreation facilities, a town square, a large retail unit, other shops, restaurants, offices, an hotel, a health and fitness centre, a crèche, a medical and dentistry centre, 334 private and 150 key worker flats, and changes to public transport and surrounding access routes. 2.4.3 These changes included a new link road from the High Street through the former C&A site and then extending Prince Regent Road to join a new east-west „spine‟ road, which would roughly divide the development in half, and a pedestrian walkway to Hounslow Central Station. 2.4.4 Key Site 1, for purposes of construction phasing, was split into two sections for development, known as Phase 1 and Phase 2. 2.4.5 Phase 1 (the Blenheim Centre) has been constructed as approved. The large retail store, ASDA, comprising some 6,500m² has been occupied and in operation since November 2006. The 484 residential units constructed above the retail and leisure elements are completed. 2.4.6 As a result of the economic downturn, Phase 2 has not been constructed, but (as approved in 2002) consisted of the following elements: (a) 28,956m² of office (B1) floorspace; (b) 14,702m² of retail (A1, A2 and A3) floorspace; (c) 4,600m² leisure cinema (D1) floorspace; and (d) other associated uses, including public toilets and archive storage. 3 DESCRIPTION OF THE ORDER LAND 3.1 Extent and Nature of Rights 3.1.1 The Order Maps show the freehold and leasehold interests to be compulsorily acquired. The Order Maps have been carefully delineated to ensure the land and rights to be acquired are only what is required to facilitate the delivery of the Scheme. 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 61 Page 7 3.1.2 As well as securing the land necessary to deliver the Scheme, new rights are also necessary to ensure the Developer has the ability to construct the Scheme. These new rights are being created under Section 13 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 and the affected parts of the Order Land are shown coloured blue on the Order Map. 3.1.3 The main purpose of the new rights is to provide the Developer with all rights reasonably needed to facilitate the construction of the Scheme. The new rights are described in greater detail in the Schedule to the Order, but can be summarised as follows: (a) to enable access to land (with or without vehicles) for the purposes of demolition, construction and future activities such as maintenance and renewal for the purposes of constructing the Scheme and its on-going management; (b) to oversail land with loaded or unloaded cranes; (c) to erect and use scaffolding and hoardings; (d) to carry out works to and modify service media; (e) to carry out works to and modify plant equipment; (f) to alter or remove fire escapes (either on a permanent or temporary basis) whilst always providing an alternative means of escape; (g) to access land for the purposes of delivering and removing plant and machinery; (h) to construct temporary means of access and egress to adjoining properties. 3.1.4 The new rights are described in greater detail in the Schedule of Rights. 3.2 Land Referencing 3.2.1 The Council instructed independent agents to carry out the referencing exercise. The actions taken by the agents to investigate title and occupier details for inclusion in the Order included: (a) Land registry searches; (b) Service of Section 16 Requisitions for Information on behalf of the Council (issued on 15 January 2015) and review of information returned in response; (c) 3.2.2 Site inspections. Overall, the square metreage the subject of acquisition or over which new rights are proposed are [Persona: confirm area] 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 62 Page 8 3.2.3 The referencing exercise has been under constant review and subject to updating up until the date the Order was made. It is considered the Schedule is therefore as accurate as it can be based on diligent inquiries on behalf of the Council. Interests to be acquired 3.3 The interests which are included in the Order land can be classified under four categories: (a) Category 1: Acquisition of Entire Property (b) Category 2: Acquisition of Part of a Property (c) Category 3: New Rights Acquired (d) Category 4: Relocation of Car Parking Spaces (e) Category 5: Potential Interference with Rights enjoyed by neighbouring properties 3.4 Category 1: Acquisition of entire property 3.4.1 The Scheme centres on the Holloway Street and Alexandra Road car parks, two interlinked Council owned and operated surfaced car parks which currently provide 420 spaces. The car parks make up [** 3.4.2 ]% of the development site. On the eastern side of Holloway Street, opposite the car park, are nineteen Victorian twostorey dwelling houses. Twelve of these houses are owned by the Council having been acquired, and/or are held, for planning purposes. 3.4.3 Of these twelve properties, seven are currently managed by Omega Housing who have undertaken modernisation works so the accommodation can be utilised as temporary housing for homeless people whilst the land assembly process for the Scheme is completed. The remaining properties are used by the Council as temporary accommodation. 3.4.4 The following properties are currently outside the Council‟s ownership: (a) 11 Holloway Street – a three-bedroom house [plot 50] (b) 13 Holloway Street – a three-bedroom house [plot 49] (c) 15 Holloway Street – a three-bedroom house [plot 48] (d) 17 Holloway Street – a two-bedroom house [plot 47] (e) 19 Holloway Street – a two-bedroom house [plot 46] (f) 25 Holloway Street – a two-bedroom house [plot 43] (g) 35 Holloway Street – a two-bedroom house [plot 37]. 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 63 Page 9 3.4.5 In addition to the residential properties on Holloway Street there are three commercial properties on the High Street that need to be acquired for the Scheme. A key part of the Scheme is to improve connectivity between the Blenheim Centre and the High Street thus ensuring that the new development becomes part of the town centre as opposed to an area that detracts from the existing High Street and Treaty Centre. To improve connectivity, the pedestrian footpath that sits between 174 and 178 High Street (Smithy Lane) needs to be widened and be incorporated within the Scheme to create a level of continuity with the High Street‟s retail offer. 3.4.6 The following retail properties on the High Street which are included within the Order are: (a) 174 High Street – a three storey property comprising of retail accommodation on the ground floor and office accommodation on the two upper floors. The property is owned by Mantle Investments Ltd. The retail accommodation was previously occupied by Internacionale, a women‟s fashion retailer that went into administration in February 2014 with all stores within the group ceasing trading in June 2014. The retail accommodation is currently vacant but is currently being fitted out by Specsavers for their occupation. The office accommodation is occupied by Bhogal Partners solicitors. [Plot 9]. (b) 178 High Street – a two storey property comprising of retail accommodation on the ground floor and two residential flats on the first floor that is owned by Toplain Limited. The ground floor retail accommodation is occupied by ITS Convenience Store with the upper floor accommodation forming two residential apartments. [Plot 10]. (c) 180 High Street– a two storey property comprising of retail accommodation on the ground floor and ancillary accommodation on the first floor that is owned by Toplain Limited. The property is occupied by The Body Shop. [Plot 10]. 3.4.7 Situated to the north-west of Alexandra Road Car Park is a rectangular parcel of land which is configured to provide 100 surface car parking spaces. The freehold of the land is in the ownership of Legal and General Assurance Society Limited (L&G), the developers of the Blenheim Centre, with all of the car parking spaces sold on long leases to the owners of residential property within the Blenheim Centre. The leases, which are for the surface of the car parking space (and space above to a height of 2.05m), contain a „lift and shift‟ provision allowing for the landlord to relocate the car parking space without the tenant‟s consent providing it is within 250m of the Blenheim Centre entrance. 3.4.8 The portion of Prince Regent Road extending from its junction at Alexandra Road and its junction with Matisse Road is currently a private road in the ownership of L&G. L&G have been in discussions with the Council regarding the adoption of the road but, to date, an 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 64 Page 10 agreement has not been reached in respect of the works that need to be undertaken in advance of any adoption. Owners and occupiers of the accommodation within the scheme will require uninterrupted access along the road and therefore the road has been included within the Order. The acquisition relates to the surface and subsoil of the roadway. 3.5 3.5.1 Category 2: Acquisition of part of property To create an integrated scheme that maximises the development opportunity, a shared service yard would need to be created which would be utilised by 164-172 High Street and the retail/ leisure units within the Scheme. To facilitate the creation of this shared service yard the land to the rear of 164-172 High Street needs to be acquired. At present, with the exception of 166 High Street, the land to the rear of these properties is used for car parking, servicing of the retail units and for access/egress to/from the upper residential parts. The land to the rear of 166 High Street is used as a private garden. No part of the building that relates to individual properties is to be purchased; the acquisition relates to the rear land only. 3.5.2 The Royal Mail Group have a delivery office located to the east of the Holloway Street houses. [Plot 30]. Delivery vehicles accessing the delivery office enter via Matisse Road and exit via a service road that lies immediately to the north of 47 Holloway Street. There is also a pedestrian footpath alongside the service road which provides public access to the collection office. A portion of the service road is included within the Order to allow it to be integrated within the new service yard for Block D. The Scheme will require the construction of a new ramp providing access to Prince Regent Street for Royal Mail Group delivery vehicles. 3.5.3 Prince Regent Road [Plot ** ] is a private road. Access would be required for RMG's revised egress arrangement, some servicing traffic and residential parking traffic. The acquisition relates to the surface and subsoil of the roadway. The Council will continue to work towards achieving dedication and adoption of this land to make its acquisition unnecessary. 3.6 Category 3: New Rights Acquired 3.6.1 The acquisition of new rights over land is also necessary in order to ensure the Developer has the ability to deliver the Scheme. Rights will be secured over the area of land to the rear of 180-196 High Street to allow for the construction of the Scheme and to ensure continued pedestrian access to all parts of the High Street properties during the works. The acquisition of rights over land relates to the rear yards of the properties only and the buildings will be unaffected. These rear yards are all used for car parking and servicing. 3.7 A list of the rights required is at 3.1.3. 3.8 Category 4: Relocation of car parking spaces 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 65 Page 11 3.8.1 There are 100 car parking spaces in the north-west corner of the Alexandra Road Car Park that are individually leased to owners of residential properties within the Blenheim Centre. The leases contain a „lift and shift‟ provision allowing the landlord to relocate the car parking spaces providing that they are within 250m of the entrance foyer. [ 3.9 Category 5: Potential interference with Rights enjoyed by neighbouring properties 3.9.1 GIA have carried out of a preliminary assessment of the extent to which the Scheme (once built) may impact on natural daylight of properties within the vicinity of the Order Land. That assessment identified some properties whose daylight may be affected, albeit not adversely. Section 12 (2A) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 identifies a "qualifying person" in relation to land comprised in an order as being" a person the acquiring authority thinks is likely to be entitled to make a relevant claim if the order is confirmed and the compulsory purchase takes place" 3.9.2 Section 12 (2B) goes on to state that a "relevant claim" is a claim for compensation under Section 10 of the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965. 3.10 As a precautionary measure, the Council has therefore included in Table 2 those properties that may have a claim under section 10 of the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965. These properties lie outside of the boundary of the Order Land and are not subject to any form of acquisition, nor is any new right being sought in respect of these properties. Given it is the entirety of the Development, as built, which may give rise to a claim for compensation, column (4) of Table 2, has been referenced to refer to "All Plots". 3.10.1 For the avoidance of doubt, the inclusion of these properties is not an acknowledgement or acceptance that compensation is payable. Rather, these properties are being included in the Schedule given the requirements of S12 (2A) of the Order Land Acquisition Act 1981. The Council is satisfied that it has undertaken all reasonable enquiries to ensure that the Schedule to the Order is as accurate as possible. 4 SCHEME DELIVERABILITY 4.1 Development Agreement 4.1.1 Having identified the High Street Quarter as a priority for comprehensive redevelopment, the Council sought to procure a development partner. This was pursued by means of an EUcompliant procurement process using the Negotiated Procedure. An OJEU notice advertising the opportunity was placed on 22 April 2013 (with a Prior Information Notice having been posted on 12 March). 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 66 Page 12 4.1.2 The Council selected BDW Trading Ltd (BDW) - the principal housebuilding trading company for Barratt Developments Plc - as its preferred development partner at a Cabinet meeting in November 2013. A Development Agreement between the parties was completed on 11 March 2014 (Development Agreement). 4.1.3 The Development Agreement is a conditional agreement with BDW under obligation to deliver the specified scheme, subject to some limited flexibility and procedures for Council approval of changes. The Agreement is subject to satisfaction of a number of conditions including: (a) Securing of detailed planning consent; (b) Acquisition of land required for the development; (c) Confirmation of any necessary Highways Orders; (d) Pre-letting of an agreed quantum of commercial floorspace (60% of the GIA of the retail and commercial units); 4.1.4 (e) Provision of evidence of funding; (f) Demonstration of viability; (g) Satisfactory Ground Conditions. There are longstop dates relating to the individual conditions. Once land assembly and planning conditions are satisfied, BDW have a further 12 months to satisfy pre-let and funding conditions. 4.1.5 Upon satisfaction of all the Conditions Precedent, BDW is obliged to commence the Development of the prescribed scheme in accordance with an agreed programme and to use its reasonable endeavours to complete the Development as a whole in 4 years, and in any event within 8 years. This longstop date is subject to extensions by reason of force majeure. 4.1.6 The Scheme will be delivered in phases which will be sequential, and in some instances concurrent. There is an ability for BDW to pause the commencement of a subsequent phase for a maximum period of 3 years if there is a substantial fall in residential sales values, measured from the date of the contract going unconditional. BDW are obliged to complete any phase once it is commenced regardless of any falls in value during construction. 4.2 Developer role and funding 4.2.1 Barratt Developments Plc have provided a Parent Company Guarantee to the Council of BDW‟s obligations under the Development Agreement and CPO Indemnity Agreement [dated TBC – before Order made], subject to agreed financial caps on the guarantor‟s liability. 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 67 Page 13 4.2.2 Utilising the residential and commercial development expertise within Barratt Development Plc, the Scheme will be delivered jointly by Barratt London Limited (the business unit responsible for delivering Barratt‟s London schemes) and Wilson Bowden Developments Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Barratt Developments Plc, focussed on commercial property development. 4.2.3 Barratt London Limited are responsible for the residential component of the Scheme and has extensive experience of delivering residential-led mixed use development in London, with a proven track record of delivery for schemes of this nature and scale. Its recent experience includes: (a) The Great West Quarter, Brentford : 897 residential units, hotels, offices and retail space (b) St Andrew’s, Bromley-by-Bow : Partnership with GLA on the redevelopment of St Andrews Hospital to deliver 964 new homes, a new health centre, community building and open space (c) Renaissance, Lewisham : A collaboration with London Borough of Lewisham, Renaissance is a mixed use scheme providing 788 homes and a recently opened new leisure centre. (d) Fulham Wharf : Joint Venture with Sainsbury‟s delivering a new Sainsbury‟s foodstore and 465 apartments. (e) Dalston Square : In partnership with the GLA and London Borough of Hackney, Dalston Square provides 550 new homes, new station, new public square, shops, restaurants and library. 4.2.4 Wilson Bowden Developments Limited are responsible for the commercial components of the scheme and have many years of experience and a solid proven track record of delivering schemes of this nature. WBD are major commercial property developers and have undertaken town centre developments in: (a) Wrexham: a mixed use town centre regeneration delivered in partnership with Wrexham County Borough Council. The scheme provides c.400,000 sq ft of retail and leisure floorspace including a department store, cinema and 48 residential units. (b) Royal Leamington Spa: development at Regent Court, which is located in the conservation area and includes the restoration of the Grade II* Listed Regent Hotel. It also comprises 12,000 sq ft of retail and leisure floorspace, together with 132 apartments. 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 68 Page 14 (c) Bishops Stortford : a mixed use town centre regeneration delivered in partnership with East Hertfordshire District Council. Jackson Square provides 100,000 sq ft of new retail floorspace in Bishops Stortford town centre, together with 190 residential units and restaurants. (d) Harlow: a joint venture with Harlow Council and English Partnerships, The Water Gardens delivered a major mixed use regeneration in Harlow Town Centre, including a foodstore, retail, restaurant and leisure accommodation and new Civic Offices. (e) Hinckley: Joint Venture with Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council and extensive site assembly supported by CPO. The Crescent is currently under construction and upon completion will provide a Sainsbury‟s foodstore, Cineworld cinema and a range of retail and restaurant units. 4.2.5 The funding strategy intends the development to be funded from Group cash resources, which may be augmented by the addition of external senior debt or institutional funding. As the main trading company of Barratt Development plc, BDW has the cash resources and balance sheet to promote and deliver this project and is capable of financing the total development costs. All the funding to date has been provided from the cash resources of BDW and the commitment to date exceeds £1,900,000. At June 2014, BDW reported a Group total equity of £3,354,000,000 4.2.6 The proposed timetable (assuming a confirmed CPO) for the delivery of the scheme is as follows: (a) Planning permission granted – September 2015 (b) Key pre-lets exchange contracts – February 2015 (c) Main construction works commence – February 2017 (d) Cinema Practical Completion – February 2019 (e) Cinema Opening – August 2019 (f) Scheme Completion – September 2020 4.3 CPO Indemnity Agreement 4.3.1 The Developer has entered into an indemnity agreement with the Council which covers all costs associated with the making, confirmation and implementation of the Order. The costs covered by the Developer under the Indemnity Agreement include: (a) all advice and assistance to the Council by appointed specialist advisors; 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 69 Page 15 (b) legal costs of the Council (including any time spent by external legal advisors, agents and advisors); (c) payments for any compensation, acquisition costs (including those resulting from a blight notice) and disturbance payments; and (d) other relevant Order related costs including all costs, fees and expenses relating to any public inquiry in respect of the Order. 4.3.2 In light of the provisions contained in the Indemnity Agreement the Council is satisfied that adequate funding is available to enable it to complete the compulsory acquisition under the Order and meet statutory compensation claims together with all resource costs associated with making the Order. 5 PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS IN RELATION TO THE ORDER LAND 5.1 The Order Land is noted as an important area within the Town Centre, this being the interchange between the station, primary and secondary retail areas. It currently suffers from a poor environment. Improving the accessibility and public realm in this area is a key objective of the Council. 5.2 The Scheme, as part of the planning process, will be considered against the following planning policy and guidance: (a) The National Planning Policy Framework, Ministerial policy statements and associated guidance; (b) UDP Saved Policies; (c) Other material planning documents, including the emerging Local Plan and evidence base. 5.3 National Policy 5.3.1 The National Planning Policy Framework ("NPPF") does not form part of the adopted development plan, it does however provide guidance on planning at a national level and is a material consideration for planning purposes. The NPPF promotes the role of town centres, stating that town centres should be recognised as the heart of their communities. Local authorities are required to pursue policies to support the viability and vitality of town centres. This includes promoting competitive town centres that provide customer choice and a diverse retail offer which reflects the individuality of town centres (paragraph 23). In particular, the NPPF promotes the preference for main town centre uses to be located in town centres (paragraph 24). 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 70 Page 16 5.3.2 The National Planning Policy Guidance "Ensuring the Vitality of Town Centre" supports the strengthening and promotion of town centres, it states: "Local planning authorities should plan positively, to support town centres to generate local employment, promote beneficial competition within and between town centres, and create attractive, diverse places where people want to live, visit and work." (paragraph 001) 5.3.3 National guidance therefore encourages development of town centres, particularly where it will breed competition with neighbouring town centres and promote choice for the consumer. 5.3.4 The NPPF emphasises that local planning authorities should "boost significantly the supply of housing", ensuring "that their Local Plan meets the full, objectively assessed needs for market and affordable housing in the housing market area" (paragraph 47). The NPPF is strongly in favour of providing housing where is it needed, stating that applications should be considered in the "context of the presumption in favour of sustainable development" (paragraph 49). 5.3.5 The Ministerial Statement on Planning For Growth (March 2011) is material to planning decisions and emphasises that local authorities should make "every effort to identify and meet the housing, business and other development needs of their areas, and respond positively to wider opportunities for growth". 5.4 Development Plan Documents London Borough of Hounslow Unitary Development Plan (UDP Saved Policies) 5.4.1 The Order Land falls within the Main Shopping Area (Policy S.1.1]) and within Proposal Site M8. Objective IMP.2 of the Saved Policies of the adopted UDP is: To encourage development (or measures) that regenerate or enhance the vitality, viability and character of the town centres at Brentford, Hounslow, Feltham and Chiswick in terms of their local environment, community facilities, shopping, employment, housing, traffic management, public transport and general accessibility. 5.4.2 Policy S.1.1, relating to Town Centres, states: The Council will seek to maintain and enhance the main shopping areas (Hounslow, Chiswick, Feltham, Brentford, Hounslow West and Bedfont - see Shopping Hierarchy Table S.1) by allowing expansion of shopping facilities and resisting non-retail uses in inappropriate locations (See Policies S.1.2, S.1.3 and S.1.4). All proposals will be considered having regard to the existing hierarchy of centres within the Borough and West London generally. 5.4.3 Site specific UDP Proposal M8 reads: 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 71 Page 17 Permission has been granted in 2002 for the comprehensive redevelopment of Key Site 1 with the erection of a mixed use development comprising multiplex cinema, leisure and recreational facilities, town square, large retail unit, shops, restaurants, offices, hotel, health and fitness centre, crèche, medical and dentistry centre, private residential and key worker residential together with improvements to surrounding access routes and improvements to public transport including a new pedestrian link to Hounslow Central Underground Station and new access roads to the site, and the construction of car parks, access and service roads and landscaping. 5.4.4 Policy IMP.2.2 of the UDP identifies the need to bring forward the regeneration of the Town Centre in order to promote and enhance its position at the principal retail centre in the Borough and West London through attracting investment in new retail, business, leisure and residential development in the centre.. The expansion of leisure and entertainment uses is identified as particularly important in the development of the town centre‟s role outside shopping and working hours. The London Plan 5.4.5 Hounslow is identified in the London Plan (2011) as a Metropolitan Town Centre that is identified as having medium growth and regeneration potential. The London Plan identifies Hounslow as a town centre where the existing capacity can be utilised to achieve regeneration objectives including physical, environmental and economic renewal. 5.4.6 The London Plan recognises that town centres can provide key focal points for regeneration policies and initiatives and that a wide range of uses enhance the vitality and viability of a town centre. Leisure uses are identified as being contributors to London‟s evening economy and ensuring that town centres remain lively beyond shopping hours. Higher density residential uses which capitalise on their public transport accessibility are also recognised as enhancing footfall, vitality and viability of a town centre. 5.4.7 The classification of Hounslow as a Metropolitan Town Centre which has medium growth and regeneration potential is maintained in the Mayor‟s published Draft Further Alterations to the London Plan (FALP) which is to beadopted in March 2015. 5.4.8 The Order Land is therefore a key location for new retail and leisure-led development and one that, given the site's prominent location, will make a positive contribution to people's experience and perception of Hounslow Town Centre. 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 72 Page 18 6 OTHER COUNCIL PUBLICATIONS AND INITIATIVES 6.1 Corporate Plan 6.1.1 The Council's Corporate Plan, sets out the Council's priority themes, visions and activities over a 5 year period, the current Corporate Plan runs from 2014 to 2019. 6.1.2 Considerable public engagement and consultation has taken place in order to identity the main themes and objectives of the Council's Corporate Plan. The future economic prosperity of the town and the redevelopment of the town centre was identified as the most important project to maintain. 6.1.3 The Corporate Plan identifies the Council's Priority Themes and Aims for Hounslow. The following are relevant for the purposes of the Order: (a) Objective: Good Quality Homes and jobs To make sure good quality homes and jobs are provided for residents, to support economic growth and improving town centres, the Council has promised to: Regenerate Hounslow and Brentford town centres and the „Golden Mile‟; Ensure major developments provide significant amounts of affordable housing; Improve the range, mix and use of social housing to reduce overcrowding. (b) Objective: An ambitious council delivering quality services and value for money To deliver quality services and value for money, the Council has promised to: Boost our independent sources of income through more commercial ventures and a commercial property portfolio that meets the needs of business. (c) Objective: Keeping you safe To make Hounslow a safe borough, the Council promises to: Make homes safe and secure reducing fires and burglaries; Design out crime in new developments. 6.2 Masterplan 6.2.1 A draft masterplan for Hounslow Town Centre was prepared by the Council in partnership with BDP Architects and published for consultation with the community in February 2012. Following wider public consultation and in partnership with major town centre stakeholders, the masterplan was revised in response to feedback received and the revised proposals were available to view and comment during May and June 2013. The masterplan was formally 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 73 Page 19 published by the Council in December 2013 ('the Masterplan') so that it could be used as a formal evidence base document for the emerging Local Plan. 6.2.2 The Masterplan identified the Order Land as Opportunity Site 1 (High Street Quarter) in which the overarching objective was the “delivery of a high quality and vibrant area within the heart of the town centre providing a place to shop, be entertained and live that is seamlessly integrated with the High Street”. The Masterplan identifies the Holloway Street and Alexandra Road surface car parks, the terrace of Holloway Street houses and two parades of retail properties fronting the High Street as a mixed used development opportunity. It also emphasises the importance of securing greater connectivity in the context of the functioning of the town centre as a whole. 6.2.3 Section 2 of the Hounslow Town Centre Masterplan sets out the context for redevelopment of Hounslow town centre. Section 3.1 of the Masterplan in particular positions Hounslow in relation to other town centres of a similar scale. This demonstrates that on a number of key factors Hounslow performs below the level of a strongly performing town centres on a number of key measures – retail, cultural activities, public realm quality, public open space, office start-ups, evening economy, leisure and town centre living. This is translated in the masterplan objective 1 which includes commitments to diversify the town centre economy and enhance the quality of the existing retail offer. 6.3 Emerging Local Plan 6.3.1 The Draft Local Plan, which was submitted to the Secretary of State for examination by an th independent Inspector on the 20 August 2014, allocates the majority of the Order Land (as Site 39: High Street Quarter) for mixed use development with leisure, commercial (retail) and residential uses with car parking. The Draft Local Plan states that the Order Land plays an integral role in the regeneration of Hounslow Town Centre. 6.3.2 The draft Local Plan notes that the High Street Quarter was identified in the draft London SHLAA 2013 as having potential housing capacity throughout the plan period. Whilst the document provides no indication of an appropriate scale or quantum of residential accommodation, the GLA (through the FALP) has recently imposed upon Hounslow a target to build some 12,700 additional homes between 2015 and 2030, with the majority of these being in Brentford and Hounslow Town Centres. 6.3.3 Policy TC2 „Ensuring the Future Viability of Town Centres‟ of the Emerging Local Plan states that the Council will promote the regeneration of town centres with a particular emphasis on Hounslow and Brentford. In accordance with HTC Masterplan, under Criterion b) of policy TC2, Hounslow is promoted as a shopping destination with the High Street Quarter site identified specifically as a focus for retail, leisure and entertainment development. The justification to policy TC2 (para 3.5) identifies that Hounslow underperforms in terms of its 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 74 Page 20 position in the town centre hierarchy due to more a limited retail, leisure and evening economy offer. 6.3.4 The Retail Needs Study from January 2013 identifies a projected need for new comparison and convenience floorspace across the Borough up to 2030. The Study concludes that Hounslow Town Centre has the greatest need and capacity to accommodate additional retail space. Accordingly, the Local Plan has identified appropriate development sites to accommodate retail need up to 2030. This includes the Hounslow High Street Quarter. 6.3.5 Development of the High Street Quarter is anticipated to be phased over a ten year period from 2015 to 2025. The Order Land assessment recognises several constraints to potential development of the site, namely its location within an Archaeological Priority Area and an LEQ Noise Contour. These will be addressed through the planning process. 6.4 6.4.1 Other initiatives The improvement of the area has been a combined initiative of the Council and GLA for some time. 6.4.2 The Outer London Fund (OLF), launched by the Mayor in June 2011, is a three-year initiative dedicated to strengthening the vibrancy and growth of London‟s high streets and town centres. At the core of the initiative is funding of up to £50 million for Outer London boroughs to bid for in two rounds to improve the character, quality and economic vitality of their high streets and town centres. 6.4.3 In 2011, Hounslow Town Centre was awarded £500,000 in Round 1 of the Outer London Fund for a programme of shop front improvements, events, and street markets. In 2012, Hounslow Town Centre received a further £2m in Round 2 for projects: (a) Installation of new paving, lighting, seating and street trees; (b) Refurbishment of the high street for new market stalls in specially allocated areas; (c) Opening of Bell Square on Bell Road as an outdoor performance place; (d) Church Square to be used an outdoor performance space along with a new war memorial; 6.4.4 (e) Revamp of shop fronts in Hounslow; (f) Major and outdoor celebrations in and around the High Street. The OLF funded projects will improve the pedestrian experience of the High Street which is on the doorstep of the future residents, visitors, shoppers and users of the High Street 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 75 Page 21 Quarter. The projects also serve as a catalyst for change and to attract investment in the town centre to enhance its viability and vitality that will benefit the High Street Quarter. 6.4.5 It is considered therefore, that as well as meeting the Council's planning policy for the Town Centre, the Scheme also contributes to a number of the Council's Corporate aspirations for the town centre, local economy and environment. 7 7.1 THE PROPOSALS FOR THE SCHEME BDW's proposals for the Scheme have been amended since the Development Agreement was signed. These proposals have been through a public consultation exercise (in September 2014), with refinements made to reflect feedback received during consultation. The Council has, for the purposes of the Development Agreement, agreed to accept these proposals to provide the comprehensive redevelopment of the Order Land as follows: (a) A new multi-screen cinema; (b) 527 high quality apartments including an iconic 27 storey tower, 41% of which will be affordable housing; (c) 8,826 sq. m. (GIA) /11,109 sq. m. (GEA) of new retail, restaurant and cafe floor space that will be complimentary to the existing town centre; (d) A new town square; (e) 513 secure basement car parking spaces for (i) residents (263, which includes the re-provision of 100 Blenheim Centre Spaces currently provided on site and 3 spaces for a car club); and (ii) 7.2 the public (250). The new Town Square forms the centrepiece of the Hounslow Town Centre Masterplan, a new, major urban space, which would become the commercial heart and the focus of urban life in the proposals. The Town Square is intended to complement the town centre spaces included in the Masterplan: the street market and the events space at the junction of High Street and Bell Road and the performance space in front of the Holy Trinity Church. It is intended to provide a much needed leisure hub including cafes and restaurants with tables lining the pavements and an area dedicated to family, sports and games oriented activities. It will be a point of convergence for the links from the High Street and the area where most of the commercial accommodation will be concentrated. 7.3 The proposals have been designed in the form of five urban blocks, each featuring active frontages to most sides. Behind the frontages along both sides of Smithy Lane and around 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 76 Page 22 the new Town Square sit restaurants, bars and shops with apartments above. Elsewhere the frontages are predominantly residential. The largest of these residential blocks, a twentyseven storey residential tower is intended to provide a high quality landmark which will provide a point of reference for town centre itself. 7.4 This scheme is designed to avoid the compromising, bulky appearance of multi-storey car parks by including an underground car park, which extends across most of the Order Land and which is capable of handling the shoppers‟ car parking and the residential requirements. 7.5 The private, inward facing spaces within the blocks provide internal courtyards including soft landscaping and a play space for children. 7.6 The multiplex cinema is included as the focal point of the scheme at ground level, with a central entrance foyer oriented towards the heart of the Town Square. The cinema, which is designed to become a major civic building and the key element of the composition is visible both from the High Street entrance to Smithy Lane and from the Blenheim Centre. 7.7 The public spaces have been designed as a series of distinctive areas, each having a different character reflected in their scale, palette of materials and architectural treatment. Areas for deliveries at the back of High Street units have been consolidated into efficient service yards serving both the new and existing units 7.8 Of the 527 units proposed, 216 will be affordable (108 affordable rent; 108 Shared Ownership), such that 41% of the units proposed are affordable, Policy 3.12 of the London Plan requires planning authorities to seek the maximum reasonable amount of affordable housing having regard to: 7.9 (a) current and future requirements for affordable housing at local and regional levels; (b) affordable housing targets adopted by boroughs; (c) the need to encourage rather than restrain residential development; (d) the need to promote mixed and balanced communities; (e) the size and type of affordable housing needed in particular locations; (f) the specific circumstances of the site. The emerging draft Local Plan (Policy SC2 – Maximising the Provision of Affordable Housing) aims to maximise the provision of affordable housing by seeking a provision of 40% as affordable. 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 77 Page 23 7.10 The proposals would provide a net increase in retail and restaurant floorspace of circa 8,800 sq. m. (GIA) of new retail and restaurants and a 4,295 sq. m. (GIA) 10 screen multiplex cinema. The cinema is intended to provide the additional benefits of supporting an evening and night time economy supporting the new restaurant uses and offer additional facilities which attract visitors and customers to Hounslow Town Centre whilst also retaining existing day shoppers. 7.11 The proposals are intended to improve the physical environment within the Town Centre by creating a high quality public realm through the creation of a new town centre square that provides a focal point for the development and provides a connection between the High Street and the Blenheim Centre. The eastern square would comprise of sculptured planters with terraced edges providing informal seating areas as well as lawned areas for rest. The central area of the town square would provide flexible urban space that will be available for performance and events space, and the western area will provide a water feature that can be drained when required leaving a level surface suitable for temporary, seasonal installations. The new town square is intended to significantly improve the local environment of this area and in itself create a destination point in Hounslow, something that is currently lacking. 7.12 The creation of a cinema, restaurants and cafés is intended to provide leisure facilities for local people, reduce the need to travel long distances to a Cinema and also improve the level of spending in the town which will benefit local businesses. 7.13 It is anticipated that the proposals will create approximately 400 additional FTE jobs at Hounslow – temporary jobs created from the construction of the project will bring the total jobs created by the development to around 700. These will cover a range of job opportunities, including construction jobs as well as permanent roles in the completed development. The permanent jobs will range from managerial, and supervisory levels to clerical/administration and shop assistant roles. 7.14 The following are intended to be secured by planning obligations and conditions: (a) Affordable Housing – the proposal will provide 216 affordable units, 108 of which will be for rent. (b) Highways improvements (c) Construction training / job brokerage. (d) A public square available for a range of cultural events; (e) The retention of 250 public car parking spaces; (f) High quality exemplary design; 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 78 Page 24 (g) Sustainable development of a brownfield site with all residential accommodation meeting level 4 of the Code for Sustainable Homes and all relevant commercial space achieving BREEAM rating of excellent. 7.15 The Developer has now submitted a planning application which the Council is considering. 8 EFFORTS TO ACQUIRE BY AGREEMENT 8.1 Single ownership of the Order Land is required to implement the Scheme. Negotiations have been taking place with all landowners whose property is included in the Order or where rights are sought over their property. 8.2 The Council has actively sought to acquire land and property required for the scheme since December 2013. Having identified that land assembly was unlikely to be completed through th private treaty, on the 9 December 2014 the Council‟s Mayor and Cabinet made an inprinciple resolution to use the Council‟s CPO powers to complete the necessary land assembly to facilitate the scheme. The Corporate Leadership Team reviewed the case to use th the Council‟s CPO powers to facilitate the High Street Quarter on the 24 February 2015, and th decided to proceed with the officer‟s recommendations. On the 17 March 2015, the Council‟s Mayor and Cabinet resolved to make a CPO and to submit it to the Secretary of State for th confirmation. [The Council resolved in Full Council on the 24 March 2015 to do so.] 8.3 The Council has managed to secure some of the freehold interests in the Order Land with the following properties acquired by agreement: (a) 23 Holloway Street (b) 29 Holloway Street (c) 33 Holloway Street (d) 39 Holloway Street (e) 41 Holloway Street 8.4 Holloway Street properties 8.4.1 In November 2013 GL Hearn were instructed by the Council to approach the existing owners of the residential properties on Holloway Street regarding the sale of their property to the Council. All owners were invited to a meeting with the Council and GL Hearn on the 9 th December 2013 in which the current position of the scheme was explained, as well as the likely need for the purchase of the properties. Since this date GL Hearn have been regularly communicating with property owners in an effort to secure the purchase of all of the properties by agreement. 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 79 Page 25 8.4.2 At present, of the seven remaining properties outside of the Council‟s control. Agreement has been reached for the purchase of 25 Holloway Street and this has been with the respective parties‟ solicitors since July 2014. Agreement has been reached for the purchase of 15 and 17 Holloway Street in February 2015 and this is currently with the respective parties‟ solicitors. 8.5 High Street Properties 8.5.1 Letters were sent to all owners and occupiers of the High Street properties that were directly affected by the scheme in July 2014, inviting them all to a private exhibition of the proposals. At the exhibition, the anticipated impact on their properties was explained and, where their property was to be acquired in whole, they were invited to contact GL Hearn to discuss progressing with the purchase of the property. 8.5.2 Since the private exhibition in July 2014, meetings have been held with several property owners and occupiers in relation to the impact on the land. The submission of the planning application in February 2015 established exactly how the owners and occupiers were going to be affected by the scheme, particularly in respect of the rear service yards, and since this date a concerted effort has been made to work with all affected parties to advise how they are going to be affected by the works and to reach agreement on replacement car parking spaces and access requirements. 8.6 Royal Mail Group – Hounslow Sorting Office 8.6.1 Discussions have been held with Royal Mail Group‟s Operations Director and Field Operations Manager for the region in respect of the requirement for a portion of their land. Since this meeting work has been undertaken to establish that Royal Mail Group‟s vehicles can navigate the proposed exit route onto Prince Regent Road and this has been agreed in principle. Discussions are on-going as to what works are required as part of the scheme. 8.7 Legal and General Assurance Society Limited 8.7.1 GL Hearn have been in discussions with Legal and General and their appointed surveyor since October 2014 and are actively working towards reaching an agreement for the purchase of their interests in land affected by the scheme 8.7.2 The Council will continue to seek to acquire all of the remaining interests by agreement. 8.7.3 The Council considers that the use of its CPO powers to acquire all outstanding interests in the Order Land and the new rights is required as it has not been possible to achieve this by agreement and it is highly unlikely that it would be able to do so within an acceptable timescale without the Order. The Scheme cannot proceed unless these interests are acquired. 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 80 Page 26 9 ENABLING POWERS 9.1 By virtue of section 226(1)(a) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 the Council has the power to acquire land compulsorily for "development and other planning purposes" if that acquisition will facilitate the carrying of development, re-development or improvement on or in relation to that land. The Council in exercising its power under section 226(1) must have regard to Section 226(1A) which provides that this power must not be exercised unless the Council think that the development, re-development or improvements are likely to contribute to the promotion of the economic, social or environmental well-being of their area. 9.2 The Council considers that the use of section 226(1)(a) is appropriate having regard to the aims sought to be achieved by the Scheme. The Council is satisfied that the use of the powers contained in section 226(1)(a) will contribute to the development, redevelopment or improvement of the Order Land. The Council is further satisfied that the Scheme will contribute to improve the economic and social well-being of Hounslow town centre through the enhanced retail and leisure offering and additional employment opportunities and the provision of new housing including a high proportion of affordable units. The Scheme will also contribute to the environmental well-being of the area, including as a consequence of the public realm improvements facilitated by the Scheme. 9.3 Under section 13 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 the Council has the power to compulsorily acquire new rights over land. The rights which are sought are specified in the Schedule and summarised in section 3 above. 10 THE CASE FOR COMPULSORY PURCHASE 10.1 The Council has a long standing aspiration to see Hounslow Town Centre regenerated in order to provide a more vibrant and sustainable retail and leisure offer. At a national planning policy level this aspiration is supported by the NPPF which requires local planning authorities to support and positively plan for the management and growth of town centres including promoting competitive town centres that provide customer choice and a diverse retail offer. At a local level this aspiration is supported by the UDP and Emerging Local Plan which promote the redevelopment of the Order Land. 10.2 The Scheme will facilitate the transformation and regeneration of this allocated, important town centre site. The Scheme will provide a positive benefit to the community of Hounslow and visitors to the town by providing a new retailing environment that suits modern retailing and leisure needs. The Scheme will contribute to and enhance the vitality and viability of the town centre, enabling Hounslow to compete with other retail centres. It will also deliver much needed significant new housing (including affordable housing). 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 81 Page 27 10.3 The purpose of the Order is therefore to secure the acquisition of all relevant interests in the Order Land to facilitate the Scheme. 10.4 The Council considers that there is a compelling case in the public interest for the making of the Order. The principle of the Scheme is supported by planning policy at both a national and local level. It is not considered that there are any planning or viability impediments to the implementation of the Scheme once planning permission is granted. The Council considers the Scheme will make a positive contribution to the promotion of achievement of the economic, social and environmental wellbeing of the area. 10.5 Single ownership and control of the Order Land is required to enable the Scheme to proceed. The Council is satisfied that both the Council and the Developer have made reasonable attempts to acquire outstanding interests by private agreement. The Council, through its appointed agents, has attempted, and will continue to attempt, to purchase the outstanding interests by private agreement. However, given the number of third party interests identified in the Schedule the Council considers it unlikely that either the Council or the Developer will be able to acquire all of these interests by agreement within a reasonable time period. The exercise of compulsory purchase powers will enable redevelopment to take place at an earlier date by providing certainty in respect of site assembly. 10.6 The Council has carefully considered the need to include each parcel of land and each new right in the Order Land and is satisfied that these interests are required for the delivery of the Scheme. 10.7 The overarching consideration for the Secretary of State in deciding when an Order should be confirmed, and which is of equal relevance to the Council in reaching its decision, is set out in paragraph 16 of Annex A; the CPO Circular identifies the following issues be considered: (a) whether the purpose for which the land is being acquired fits with the adopted planning framework for the area; (b) the extent to which the Scheme would contribute to the achievement of the promotion and/or improvement of the economic, and/or social, and/or improvement of environmental well-being of the Council's area. (c) the potential financial viability of the Scheme, general funding intentions and the timing of available funding and that there is a reasonable prospect of the Scheme going ahead; (d) whether the purposes for which the proposed Order Land is to be acquired could reasonably be achieved by any other means within a reasonable timeframe. 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 82 Page 28 Whether the purpose for which the land is being acquired fits with the adopted planning framework for the area 10.8 Overall, for the reasons given elsewhere in theis Statement, the Council is satisfied that the purposes for whcih the Order Land is being acquired fir with the adopted planning frameworkand will enable the Council to begin to realise the wider regenerative aspirations for Hounslow Town Centre by acting as a catalyst to wider investment and development. The extent to which the Scheme would contribute to the achievement of the promotion and/or improvement of the economic, and/or social, and/or improvement of environmental well-being of the Council's area 10.9 The Council is satisfied that development on this scale represents a significant investment in the Town Centre, the benefits of which will be considerable to the economical wellbeing of the Borough, in terms of: (a) Becoming a retail destination for existing residents of the borough and those who live elsewhere; (b) Contributing to the town centre's evening economy which will secure additional spending within the town; (c) Attracting new retailers to the town centre and investment; (d) Creating a significant number and range of new employment opportunities, with the S106 obligations seeking to secure these at a local level so far as possible. 10.10 As a consequence of this investment and the economic benefits, there will also be significant social and environmental benefits for the borough, consisting of: (a) Modern and better designed retail units, a well designed scheme and layout, all of which will enhance the immediate environment and create a more attractive area for the public to visit and enjoy (b) Providing much need centrally located homes, including significant affordable housing; (c) Enhancing the evening economy in the town centre by providing a choice of leisure and food uses. 10.11 Accordingly the Council is satisfied that S226(1)(A) is met. The proposed development will provide and enhance the economic, social and environmental wellbeing of the area. 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 83 Page 29 The potential financial viability of the Scheme, general funding intentions and the timing of available funding and that there is a reasonable prospect of the Scheme going ahead 10.12 The Council is satisfied that there are no impediments to bring forward the Scheme. The Developer is committed to the delivery of the scheme, having spent £1.9 million to date on obtaining planning consent and it has been demonstrated that the development will produce an acceptable level of return to the developer. 10.13 Assuming planning permission is granted for the Developer's proposals has been granted, there will be no planning impediment to it going ahead. There is strong demand for the residential aspects of the scheme and the Developer is in the process of agreeing an agreement for lease with a Cinema operator. Initial market testing for the retail/restaurant accommodation has identified good interest from national multiple operators and negotiations with these parties for pre-lets will begin after consent has been obtained. Whether the purposes for which the proposed Order Land is to be acquired could reasonably be achieved by any other means within a reasonable timeframe. 10.14 The Land has been identified as being the appropriate site for the delivery of a mixed-use development since the Unitary Development Plan adopted in 2003. There are no alternative sites in which the proposed development could be brought forward whilst achieving the scale of development and realising the same level of public benefit to local businesses and residents. The Order Land is uniquely positioned between the High Street and the Blenheim Centre and the delivery of this development will create an integrated town centre. 10.15 In order for the comprehensive development of the Order Land to be realised vacant possession of the entire site needs to be achieved and this can only be done by acquiring all of the remaining private land interests that exist. The Council and BDW will continue to attempt to acquire these interests by negotiation, however this may not be possible in all instances. Where agreement cannot be reached by negotiation the only other option is to acquire the interest through the exercise of the Council‟s compulsory purchase powers. 10.16 The Council is satisfied that both it and the Developer has taken all reasonable steps to acquire the land required by negotiation since December 2013, and continues to negotiate with third party land owners. 10.17 Following these reasonable attempts to acquire the outstanding land by the Developer, the Council is satisfied that it is unlikely other properties will be acquired in a timely manner and that this CPO is now necessary to secure the redevelopment of the Order Land. 10.18 For the reasons explained above, the Council therefore considers there to be a compelling case in the public interest to proceed with Order. 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 84 Page 30 11 HUMAN RIGHTS 11.1 The Human Rights Act 1998 prohibits public authorities from acting in a way which is incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights. In its Cabinet reports on th 9 December 2014 and 17 March 2015 the Council considered the impact on human rights of those affected by the Order. In particular, the Council had regard to the right to the peaceful enjoyment of possessions (Article 1). It is considered that any interference with Article 1, or any other Convention rights, is justified and proportionate in the wider public interest in order to secure the economic, social, physical and environmental regeneration of the town centre. 12 EQUALITIES 12.1 The regeneration of Hounslow Town Centre has been a long term aspiration and corporate objective of the Council and the number one priority of the public. 12.2 The Unitary Development Plan, which identifies the High Street Quarter site for new retail, commercial and leisure facilities and residential accommodation (Proposal Site M8) was adopted in December 1996. In January 2001 alterations to the plan were placed on deposit and a public inquiry was held between September and December 2001. The public inquiry provided the opportunity for all members of the public to comment on the plan. Following the Inspector‟s report (May 2002), and proposed modifications that were presented in February 2003, the updated UDP was adopted in December 2003. 12.3 The Hounslow Town Centre Masterplan is the result of a long history of extensive public consultation and engagement. An initial vision was developed for the town centre in January 2009 entitled „A Brighter Future for Hounslow Town Centre‟ and the findings and recommendations of this report provided the starting point for the Hounslow Town Centre Masterplan. BDP were subsequently appointed to development a masterplan and they in turn formed a „People‟s Panel‟, a group of town centre users and interests who provide feedback on BDP‟s proposals and help shape the emerging proposals. 12.4 Individual invitations were issued to a long list of some 160 local businesses, community groups, faith groups, youth groups, the police and other stakeholders and a group of willing representatives was formed. The invitation was also open to anyone who wished to attend. 12.5 Two sessions were held with the People‟s Panel which involved presentations and a series of interactive workshop exercises. Sessions were held in July and September 2011 and the feedback received informed the evolution of the Masterplan proposals. In February 2012 the draft proposals were presented to the public through a two day exhibition in the Treaty Centre th th held on Friday 24 and Saturday 25 February 2012. This Masterplan was adopted by the Council in February 2012. 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 85 Page 31 12.6 Following an updated brief, BDP were instructed to take a fresh look at the proposals put forward in the Masterplan. Workshops were held in November and December 2012 with major stakeholders to revisit the masterplan vision, concepts and to focus on detail on the options for the High Street Quarter site. 12.7 Following the review and engagement with major stakeholders a revised draft masterplan was produced the and consultation with the wider public undertaken to seek further feedback. Invitation letters updating the public and providing notification of the consultation process were sent by post to every address in the masterplan study area as well as identified key businesses, landowners, community groups and other stakeholders. 12.8 A public exhibition was held for three full days in May 2013 and following the exhibition, consultation on the revised draft masterplan ran for 5 weeks from Sunday 12th May through to Sunday 16th June 2013. The masterplan was formally published by the Council in December 2013 following a Cabinet resolution. 12.9 The emerging Local Plan, which allocates the High Street Quarter site for mixed use development with leisure, commercial (retail) and residential uses has also gone through a full consultation process including the following: Policy Options – June 13 Site allocations consultation – October 2013 Proposed Submission consultation – March/April 2014 Minor Changes consultation – Oct/Dec 2014 Examination – Feb-April 2014 12.10 The Local Plan was submitted to the Secretary of State in August 2014. 12.11 Extensive consultation with the community and stakeholders has therefore taken place in relation to the Masterplan and the emerging Local Plan and further consultation will take place on the planning application for the Scheme before its merits are considered by the Council's Planning Committee. 12.12 The Council is satisfied that the Scheme would strengthen the vitality and viability of the Town Centre and would not have any negative impacts on equality and diversity. 13 OTHER ORDERS 13.1 Prior to commencement of the Scheme a Stopping Up Order must be obtained in respect of the highway at Holloway Street, Smithy Lane (the public footpath that runs between 174-174 High Street and 178 High Street) and Wells Lane (the road that runs to the south of the car park along the rear of the High Street properties). This Order is due to be made by the Council pursuant to S247 Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and in the absence of 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 86 Page 32 outstanding objections will be confirmed by the Council before the CPO is confirmed (to the extent it is possible) and will be run concurrently with the CPO process. 14 CONSERVATION AREA AND LISTED BUILDINGS 14.1 There are no listed buildings within the Order Land and it falls outside the Conservation Area. 14.2 In terms of nearby listed buildings, a locally listed building, at 137 – 143 High Street, TW3 1QL, is 130m away from the High Street Quarter Site. The Grade 2 listed Hounslow United Reformed Church at 114 Hanworth Road, TW3 1LF is 180m away from the High Street Quarter. 14.3 The Order Land is located in an Archaeological Priority Area and there are areas of high archaeological survival potential within the site. On account of the potential for archaeological remains an archaeological trenching evaluation will be carried out. The results of these investigations will allow an appropriate mitigation strategy to be developed (e.g. targeted archaeological excavation, a watching brief for remains of lesser significance, or no further work). Any such work would be required to be carried out in accordance with a Written Scheme of Investigation (WSI) under the terms of a standard archaeological planning condition 15 SPECIAL CATEGORIES OF LAND 15.1 Royal Mail Group are treated as a statutory undertaker for the purposes of the Order, by virtue of being universal postal service provider under section 8 of the Acquisition of Land Act. The Council's view, informed by discussions with Royal Mail Group, is that the relevant land can either be purchased and not replaced without serious detriment to the carrying on of the undertaking (or be replaced, if purchased, by other land belonging to, or available for acquisition by, the undertakers without serious detriment to the undertaking). 16 CONCLUSION 16.1 The Scheme is a direct response to local policy objectives to meet the retail, leisure and housing needs within Hounslow town centre. The Scheme's retail and leisure provision would enhance the vitality and viability of the town centre, maximising its economic, social and environmental potential. To facilitate this regeneration the assembly of the Order Land is required. Given the number of third party interests in the Order Land, the only way that this can be achieved within a reasonable timeframe is through the exercise of compulsory acquisition powers. 16.2 The uses proposed by the Scheme accord with national policy guidelines and local policy objectives. The Council is satisfied that there is a compelling need in the public interest for 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 87 Page 33 compulsory purchase powers to be sought to secure the delivery of the Scheme. The Council has made the Order and ask the Secretary of State to confirm the Order. 17 CONTACTS FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND NEGOTIATION 17.1 Owners and occupiers of property affected by the Scheme who wish to negotiate or discuss matters of compensation should contact the Council's appointed surveyor: David Conboy CPO and Regeneration Associate Director GL Hearn 280 High Holborn London WC1V 7EE T: 020 7851 4811 E: [email protected] 18 DOCUMENTS TO BE REFERRED TO IN THE EVENT OF A PUBLIC INQUIRY 18.1 In the event of a public inquiry into the Order the Council intend to refer to the documents detailed below. The Council reserves its right to refer to any further document or planning policy and will seek to notify the inquiry and any remaining objectors of any such documents as soon as possible in advance of the commencement of any inquiry. Document 1. Compulsory Purchase Order and Supporting Documents The Order Order Map Order Schedule London Borough of Hounslow Planning Committee Report dated [9] December 2014 Minutes Second Resolution Paper Cabinet Minutes (Second Resolution) Planning Committee Report dated [XX] 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 88 Page 34 Document 2 Planning Documents National Planning Policy Framework National Planning Policy Guidance UDP Masterplan Documents and supporting information for planning application 2012/0252 Note these are available to view separately at the Civic Offices or on-line at www.XXXX.gov.uk Emerging Local Plan Documents and supporting information for planning application 131071 Note these are available to view separately at the Civic Offices or on-line at www.XXXX.gov.uk 3 Other London Borough of Hounslow Council Background Documents 5 Consent documents Decision letter Section 106 agreement 6 Legislation Town and Country Planning Act 1990 Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 The Acquisition of Land Act 1981 The Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 Compulsory Purchase (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 2007 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 89 Page 35 Document Circular 06/04 Compulsory Purchase and the Crichel Down Rules 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 90 Page 36 18.2 Annex 1 - Order Map 16 March 2015 RYP/SJA/063524.00004/37749949.16 91 Page 37 HOUNSLOW HIGH STREET QUARTER Table 1 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) 1 26 square metres of passage and air conditioning units adjacent to retail premises known as 162A, 162B and 162C High Street, Hounslow Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Dimple's Beauty Limited c/o SRV Delson Amba House 2nd Floor Delson Suite 15 College Road Harrow HA1 1BA Peter John Roper The Rectory Puttenham Hill Puttenham Guildford GU3 1AH (in respect of 162C High Street) Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) _ 92 Thakers Food Limited 14 Avondale Gardens Hounslow TW4 5HZ (in respect of 162B High Street) 2 118 square metres of garden and yard to the rear of retail premises known as 164 High Street and residential premises known as 164A High Street, Hounslow CPO Schedule V2 Canning International Limited Second Floor Capital City Independence Avenue PO Box 1312 Victoria Mahe Seychelles and c/o 90 Long Acre London WC2E 9RA British Heart Foundation Greater London House 180 Hampstead Road London NW1 7AW (in respect of 164 High Street) 1 Occupiers Remarks Dimple's Beauty Limited c/o SRV Delson Amba House 2nd Floor Delson Suite 15 College Road Harrow HA1 1BA FH NGL226226 LH NGL229643 Air conditioning units Thakers Food Limited 14 Avondale Gardens Hounslow TW4 5HZ (in respect of 162B High Street) _ British Heart Foundation FH MX159689 Greater London House LH AGL210238 180 Hampstead Road London NW1 7AW (in respect of 164 High Street) 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees 93 3 110 square metres of service yard and car parking to the rear of retail premises known as 166 High Street and residential premises known as Flat A and Flat B, 166 High Street, Hounslow Legal and General Assurance Society Limited 1 Coleman Street London EC2R 5AA _ 4 90 square metres of service yard and car parking to the rear of retail premises known as 168 High Street and residential premises known as Flat A and Flat B, 168 High Street, Hounslow Legal and General Assurance Society Limited 1 Coleman Street London EC2R 5AA _ CPO Schedule V2 2 Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Louise Welford 164A High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 164A High Street) Louise Welford 164A High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 164A High Street) Rosemary Welford 164A High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 164A High Street) Rosemary Welford 164A High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 164A High Street) _ Rabani Ayoubi 3 Vimy Close Hounslow TW4 5AF (trading as Selections) Remarks Unoccupied FH MX168442 Rabani Ayoubi 3 Vimy Close Hounslow TW4 5AF (trading as Selections) FH MX184817 Mr Rabani contact at Selections 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) 5 All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 143 square metres car parking and access to the rear of 162 - 168 (evens) High Street and half width of highway known as Holloway Street, Hounslow Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Jagjit Singh Nanda Pure Life Unit 4 Triangle Centre 399 Uxbridge Road Southall UB1 3EJ (including in respect of presumption to subsoil) _ Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) _ Occupiers Remarks Louise Welford 164A High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of parking) FH MX435297 94 Jaskaran Singh Purewal Pure Life Unit 4 Triangle Centre 399 Uxbridge Road Southall UB1 3EJ (including in respect of presumption to subsoil) Rosemary Welford 164A High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of parking) Kunwar Ajit Singh Pure Life Unit 4 Triangle Centre 399 Uxbridge Road Southall UB1 3EJ (including in respect of presumption to subsoil) London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) Josh Ajit Singh Arora Pure Life Unit 4 Triangle Centre 399 Uxbridge Road Southall UB1 3EJ (including in respect of presumption to subsoil) CPO Schedule V2 3 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks Unoccupied FH MX172505 London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) 6 95 43 square metres of service yard and car parking to the rear of retail premises known as 170 High Street and residential premises known as Flat 1, Flat 2, Flat 3 and Flat 4, 170 High Street, Hounslow Jagjit Singh Nanda Pure Life Unit 4 Triangle Centre 399 Uxbridge Road Southall UB1 3EJ _ _ Jaskaran Singh Purewal Pure Life Unit 4 Triangle Centre 399 Uxbridge Road Southall UB1 3EJ Kunwar Ajit Singh Pure Life Unit 4 Triangle Centre 399 Uxbridge Road Southall UB1 3EJ CPO Schedule V2 4 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks _ Trespass Europe Limited Vermont House 149 Vermont Street Kinning Park Glasgow G41 1LU FH MX156733 LH AGL263041 _ Trespass Europe Limited Vermont House 149 Vermont Street Kinning Park Glasgow G41 1LU FH AGL7600 Josh Ajit Singh Arora Pure Life Unit 4 Triangle Centre 399 Uxbridge Road Southall UB1 3EJ 66 square metres of service yard and car parking to rear of retail premises known as 172 High Street, Hounslow Aurelia Properties Limited Foret Windmill Park Wrotham Heath TN15 7SY 8 11 square metres of recycling enclosure to the rear of 172 High Street, Hounslow Aurelia Properties Limited Foret Windmill Park Wrotham Heath TN15 7SY 96 7 CPO Schedule V2 Trespass Europe Limited Vermont House 149 Vermont Street Kinning Park Glasgow G41 1LU _ 5 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) 9 399 square metres of retail and commercial premises, service yard and car parking known as 174 High Street, Hounslow Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) 97 Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Mantle Investments Limited Second Floor Capital City Independence Avenue PO Box 1312 Victoria Mahe Seychelles and c/o Pelham Associates 90 Long Acre London WC2E 9RA Specsavers Optical Superstores Limited Forum 6 Parkway Solent Business Park Whiteley Fareham PO15 7PA (in respect of 174 High Street) Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) _ Bhogal Partners Solicitors LLP 1st and 2nd Floors 174 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ 10 290 square metres of retail premises known as 178, 178A and 180 High Street and residential premises known as Flat 1 and Flat 2, 178 High Street, Hounslow CPO Schedule V2 Toplain Limited 13 Peel Road Douglas Isle of Man IM1 4LR Reed Employment Limited Academy Court 94 Chancery Lane London WC2A 1DT (in respect of 178 High Street) 6 Occupiers Remarks Specsavers Optical Superstores Limited Forum 6 Parkway Solent Business Park Whiteley Fareham PO15 7PA (in respect of 174 High Street) FH MX281535 LH AGL271490 Bhogal Partners Solicitors LLP 1st and 2nd Floors 174 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ _ ITS Convenience Store FH NGL90119 178 High Street LH NGL545778 Hounslow TW3 1HL 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks Mark One Travel Limited 136 The Broadway Southall UB1 1QN (in respect of 178A High Street) The Occupier 178A High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL LH NGL553991 The Body Shop International plc Watersmead Littlehampton BN17 6LS (in respect of 180 High Street) The Body Shop International plc Watersmead Littlehampton BN17 6LS (in respect of 180 High Street) LH AGL2706 98 The Occupier Flat 1 178 High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL The Occupier Flat 2 178 High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL 11 18 square metres of Unknown hardstanding car parking to the rear of 178 and 180 High Street, Hounslow CPO Schedule V2 _ 7 _ Unoccupied Unregistered 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) 12 109 square metres of service yard and car parking to rear of retail premises known as 182 186 (evens) High Street, Hounslow Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Toplain Limited 13 Peel Road Douglas Isle of Man IM1 4LR Kentucky Fried Chicken (Great Britain) Limited Orion Gate Guildford Road Woking GU22 7NJ (in respect of 182- 184 High Street) The right for the acquiring authority and its lessees, licensees, successors in title, assigns and those authorised by any of there to: 99 (rights secured over the land to use the land as a work site for the construction of the scheme and for the creation of pedestrian access routes to the rear of the High Street properties) 13 324 square metres of service yard and car parking and retail premises known as 188, 188a and 188b High Street, Hounslow The right for the acquiring authority and its lessees, licensees, successors in title, assigns and those authorised by any of there to: CPO Schedule V2 Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) _ The Optical Shop (Hounslow) Limited Unit 3 The Elmsleigh Centre High Street Staines TW18 4QB (in respect of 186 High Street) SJR Retail LLP 5th Floor 94-96 Wigmore Street London W1U 3RF Deichmann-Shoes UK Limited The Laurels 18 Main Street Lubenham Market Harborough LE16 9TF (in respect of 188-188a High Street) 8 Occupiers Remarks Kentucky Fried Chicken FH MX341859 (Great Britain) Limited LH AGL18686 Orion Gate Guildford Road Woking GU22 7NJ (in respect of 182- 184 High Street) The Optical Shop (Hounslow) Limited Unit 3 The Elmsleigh Centre High Street Staines TW18 4QB (in respect of 186 High Street) _ Deichmann-Shoes UK FH MX340238 Limited LH AGL249858 The Laurels 18 Main Street Lubenham Market Harborough LE16 9TF (in respect of 188-188a High Street) 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners (rights secured over the land to use the land as a work site for the construction of the scheme and for the creation of pedestrian access routes to the rear of the High Street properties) 14 100 31 square metres of service yard to rear of retail premises known as 190 High Street, Hounslow The right for the acquiring authority and its lessees, licensees, successors in title, assigns and those authorised by any of there to: Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Bank of Scotland plc The Mound Edinburgh EH1 1YZ (in respect of 188b High Street) Taxtone Limited 48 Riverside Walk Isleworth TW7 6HP Talk Talk Mobile Phones Limited 1351 Yardley Wood Road Shirley Solihull B90 1JU Occupiers Remarks The Carphone LH AGL29705 Warehouse Limited 1 Portal Way London W3 6RS (in respect of 188b High Street) _ Talk Talk Mobile Phones Limited 1351 Yardley Wood Road Shirley Solihull B90 1JU (trading as 02) FH MX65721 (rights secured over the land to use the land as a work site for the construction of the scheme and for the creation of pedestrian access routes to the rear of the High Street properties) CPO Schedule V2 9 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) 15 37 square metres of service yard to rear of retail premises known as 192 High Street, Hounslow Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Steven Sharpe Kenwood House Kenwood Close London NW3 7JL RAL Limited Birch House Woodlands Business Park Linford Wood Milton Keynes MK14 6EW Finechance Limited 194 High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL The right for the acquiring authority and its lessees, licensees, successors in title, assigns and those authorised by any of there to: 101 16 (rights secured over the land to use the land as a work site for the construction of the scheme and for the creation of pedestrian access routes to the rear of the High Street properties) Gavin Mark Sharpe Kenwood House Kenwood Close London NW3 7JL 38 square metres of service yard and car parking to rear of retail premises known as 194 High Street, Hounslow Bridge Estates Limited First Floor 10 College Road Harrow HA1 1BE The right for the acquiring authority and its lessees, licensees, successors in title, assigns and those authorised by any of there to: CPO Schedule V2 Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks _ Talarius Limited Birch House Woodlands Business Park Linford Wood Milton Keynes MK14 6EW (trading as Quicksilver Amusements) FH MX214356 _ Moda Italiana 194 High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL (in respect of parking) FH NGL261851 LH AGL293111 The Occupier 194A High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL (in respect of parking) 10 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) (rights secured over the land to use the land as a work site for the construction of the scheme and for the creation of pedestrian access routes to the rear of the High Street properties) Occupiers Remarks Stephanie Small 194B High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL (in respect of parking) Daniel Shearman 194B High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL (in respect of parking) 102 17 22 square metres of service yard to rear of retail premises known as 196 High Street, Hounslow Archer Kane Homes Limited 41 Butts Hill Road Woodly Reading RG5 4NJ Howard Scott Limited 44 High Street Chesham HP5 1EP _ JS Pound 196 High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL FH MX71032 Archer Kane sold property in December 2014 The right for the acquiring authority and its lessees, licensees, successors in title, assigns and those authorised by any of there to: (rights secured over the land to use the land as a work site for the construction of the scheme and for the creation of pedestrian access routes to the rear of the High Street properties) CPO Schedule V2 Ealing Properties Limited c/o Sawhney Consulting No 1 Olympic Way London HA9 0NP 11 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) 103 18 Not allocated 19 Not allocated 20 Not allocated 21 Not allocated 22 Not allocated 23 Not allocated CPO Schedule V2 Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees 12 Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks 04/02/2015 Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) 24 All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 14876 square metres of loading bays and service road known as Wells Lane, car park known as Holloway Street Car Park with cycle racks, walled recycling centre, west of Holloway Street, half width of footway known as Red Lion Walk, whole width of pedestrian footway known as Smithy Walk and half width of highways known as Alexandra Road, Holloway Street and half width of paved crossing, grass verges, ramp and footway forming part of access road known as Prince Regent Road, Hounslow 104 Number on Map Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees The Mayor and the Burgesses of the London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN _ Unknown (in respect of demolished wall) CPO Schedule V2 Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) _ Occupiers Remarks Starbucks Coffee FH AGL294492 Company (UK) Limited Building 4 Chiswick Park Chiswick High Road London W4 5YE (in respect of loading bay and air conditioning units for 198 High Street) UK Parking Control Ltd Wall excluded Unit 29 from conveyance 1-2 Denham Parade Oxford Road Uxbridge UB9 4DZ (in respect of car park management) 13 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) 25 105 2928 square metres of private residents parking spaces east of Alexandra Road, basement car park, bus stop, grass verge and footway forming part of access road known as Prince Regent Road, Hounslow CPO Schedule V2 Legal and General Assurance Society Limited 1 Coleman Street London EC2R 5AA Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) Raza Ali Khan Fonthill 15A Copsem Lane Esher KT10 9HE (in respect of parking space numbers 1 and 72) Raza Ali Khan Fonthill 15A Copsem Lane Esher KT10 9HE (in respect of parking space numbers 1 and 72) FH AGL158092 Tasneem Assia Rahman Fonthill 15A Copsem Lane Esher KT10 9HE (in respect of parking space numbers 1 and 72) Tasneem Assia Rahman Fonthill 15A Copsem Lane Esher KT10 9HE (in respect of parking space numbers 1 and 72) LH AGL201281 LH AGL201272 14 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) 106 CPO Schedule V2 Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks Norin Musani 12 Kingshill Drive Harrow HA3 8TF (in respect of parking space number 2) Satish Kamal Satyamurthy Flat 920 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NN (in respect of parking space number 2) Satish Kamal Satyamurthy Flat 920 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NN (in respect of parking space number 2) Riaz Hasanali Musani 12 Kingshill Drive Harrow HA3 8TF (in respect of parking space number 3) Dinesh Kadam Flat 922 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NN (in respect of parking space number 3) Dinesh Kadam Flat 922 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NN (in respect of parking space number 3) NB Only the airspace to the height of 2.05 metres is included in the leasehold titles. The surface of the parking space and airspace above the height of LH AGL198065 Jyotika Kaur Badwal 64 Manor Road Wheathampstead St Albans AL4 8JO (in respect of parking space number 4) Jyotika Kaur Badwal 64 Manor Road Wheathampstead St Albans AL4 8JO (in respect of parking space number 4) Baljit Singh Bagga 116 Station Road Harpenden AL5 4RH (in respect of parking space number 4 and 5) Baljit Singh Bagga 116 Station Road Harpenden AL5 4RH (in respect of parking space number 4 and 5) 15 LH AGL198073 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees 107 Occupiers Remarks Ajeet Singh Bagga 116 Station Road Harpenden AL5 4RH (in respect of parking space number 5) Ajeet Singh Bagga 116 Station Road Harpenden AL5 4RH (in respect of parking space number 5) LH AGL198043 Saleem Fazal 7 Hazlewood Mews Clapham London SW9 9BL (in respect of parking space number 6) Saleem Fazal 7 Hazlewood Mews Clapham London SW9 9BL (in respect of parking space number 6) LH AGL196709 Nabat Tajdin Adam Flat 316 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space number 6) Nabat Tajdin Adam Flat 316 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space number 6) Reetendra Nath Banerji 127 Woking Close London SW15 5LD (in respect of parking space numbers 7 and 94) CPO Schedule V2 16 Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) LH AGL238242 LH AGL247910 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Nilesh Mate Flat 925 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NN (in respect of parking space number 8) 108 CPO Schedule V2 Occupiers Remarks Nilesh Mate Flat 925 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NN (in respect of parking space number 8) LH AGL265817 Mahindra Kumar Rohatgi 2 Sandbach Road Church Lawton Stoke-on-Trent ST7 3RG (in respect of parking space number 9) Aman Agarwal 822 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NN (in respect of parking space number 9) Aman Agarwal 822 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NN (in respect of parking space number 9) LH AGL197846 Satish Kumar Aggarwal Flat 2B Block 7 Hillview Court 11 KA Shue Road Sai Kung Hong Kong (in respect of parking space number 10) Pankaj Pathak Flat 418 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 10) Pankaj Pathak Flat 418 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 10) LH AGL198081 Rani Bala Aggarwal Flat 2B Block 7 Hillview Court 11 KA Shue Road Sai Kung Hong Kong (in respect of parking space number 10) Neena Ramakant Bhonge Flat 418 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 10) Neena Ramakant Bhonge Flat 418 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 10) 17 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) 109 CPO Schedule V2 Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks Jennifer Chyung Wong Tsang 22A Jackson Road Vacoas Mauritius (in respect of parking space number 11) Naseev Asghar Kazmi Flat 232 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space number 11) Naseev Asghar Kazmi Flat 232 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space number 11) LH AGL197847 Sunita Chattree 78 Rogersfield Langho Blackburn BB6 8HD (in respect of parking space number 12) Sunita Chattree 78 Rogersfield Langho Blackburn BB6 8HD (in respect of parking space number 12) LH AGL197856 Shashank Chattree 78 Rogersfield Langho Blackburn BB6 8HD (in respect of parking space number 12) Shashank Chattree 78 Rogersfield Langho Blackburn BB6 8HD (in respect of parking space number 12) Neetin Sharma Flat 201 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space number 13) Neetin Sharma Flat 201 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space number 13) 18 LH AGL294891 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) 110 CPO Schedule V2 Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Occupiers Remarks Harjit Kaur Bagga 15 Lingwood Gardens Isleworth TW7 5LY (in respect of parking space number 14) Harjit Kaur Bagga 15 Lingwood Gardens Isleworth TW7 5LY (in respect of parking space number 14) LH AGL199576 Sucheel Bagga 15 Lingwood Gardens Isleworth TW7 5LY (in respect of parking space number 14) Sucheel Bagga 15 Lingwood Gardens Isleworth TW7 5LY (in respect of parking space number 14) Satpal Singh Bhamra 47 Jersey Road Hounslow TW5 0TR (in respect of parking space number 15) Satpal Singh Bhamra 47 Jersey Road Hounslow TW5 0TR (in respect of parking space number 15) Balvir Singh Bhamra 47 Jersey Road Hounslow TW5 0TR (in respect of parking space number 15) Balvir Singh Bhamra 47 Jersey Road Hounslow TW5 0TR (in respect of parking space number 15) 19 Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) LH AGL198063 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks 111 Zeenat Un Nisa Aslam Flat 903 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NN (in respect of parking space number 16) LH AGL241612 Adel Sheikh Flat 4 Tudor Court 34 North Park Gerrards Cross SL9 8LH (in respect of parking space number 17) LH AGL198096 Jagpeet Singh Bansal Flat 4 Tudor Court 34 North Park Gerrards Cross SL9 8LH (in respect of parking space number 17) Syen Wahabuddin B16/1 Gizri Boulevard D.H.A. Phase 4 Karachi Pakistan 75500 (in respect of parking space number 18) CPO Schedule V2 20 Syen Wahabuddin B16/1 Gizri Boulevard D.H.A. Phase 4 Karachi Pakistan 75500 (in respect of parking space number 18) LH AGL201573 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Jeffrey Hugh Goodall 41 Wolsey Road Ashford TW15 2RA (in respect of parking space number 19) LH AGL200535 Tara Boolakee 76 Syon Lane Isleworth TW7 5NQ (in respect of parking space number 19) 112 Ali Akbar Ale-Mohammad Flat 32 Chatsworth Lodge Bourne Place London W4 2EE (in respect of parking space numbers 20, 31, 40, 49, 50, 61, 62, 80, 81, 83 and 93) Homa Amiry Flat 32 Chatsworth Lodge Bourne Place London W4 2EE (in respect of parking space numbers 20, 31, 40, 49, 50, 61, 62, 80, 81, 83 and 93) CPO Schedule V2 21 Remarks Tara Boolakee 76 Syon Lane Isleworth TW7 5NQ (in respect of parking space number 19) Gulu Solak 6 Baroque Court Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1QQ (in respect of parking space number 20) Gulu Solak 6 Baroque Court Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1QQ (in respect of parking space number 20) LH AGL204818 LH AGL250370 LH AGL212029 LH AGL212011 LH AGL212019 LH AGL212024 LH AGL206623 LH AGL205686 LH AGL231226 LH AGL231225 LH AGL205164 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Dilsad Jiwani 10A Beaulieu Road Bexhill-On-Sea TN39 3AD (in respect of parking space number 21) Remarks LH AGL197517 113 Nizarali Hasam Mulji Jiwani 10A Beaulieu Road Bexhill-On-Sea TN39 3AD (in respect of parking space number 21) Konark Trivedi Flat 536 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 22) Konark Trivedi Flat 536 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 22) LH AGL206626 Sonal Trivedi Flat 536 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 22) CPO Schedule V2 22 Sonal Trivedi Flat 536 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 22) 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees 114 Occupiers Remarks Hardip Singh Chana PO Box 18628-00500 Nairobi Kenya (in respect of parking space number 23) Hardip Singh Chana PO Box 18628-00500 Nairobi Kenya (in respect of parking space number 23) LH AGL197831 Sukhdip Kaur Chana PO Box 18628-00500 Nairobi Kenya (in respect of parking space number 23) Sukhdip Kaur Chana PO Box 18628-00500 Nairobi Kenya (in respect of parking space number 23) Roxane Pardivala Flat 1026 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NQ (in respect of parking space number 24) Roxane Pardivala Flat 1026 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NQ (in respect of parking space number 24) Lalit Kapur Flat 241 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space number 25) CPO Schedule V2 23 Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) LH AGL198070 LH AGL198047 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) 115 CPO Schedule V2 Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Occupiers Remarks Kevin Barber 86 Grange Road Cheddleton Leek ST13 7NP (in respect of parking space number 26) Kevin Barber 86 Grange Road Cheddleton Leek ST13 7NP (in respect of parking space number 26) LH AGL207111 Kota Shivaranjan Flat 1028 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NQ (in respect of parking space number 27) Kota Shivaranjan Flat 1028 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NQ (in respect of parking space number 27) LH AGL207015 Kavita Malladi Flat 1028 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NQ (in respect of parking space number 27) Kavita Malladi Flat 1028 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NQ (in respect of parking space number 27) Vernon Guibarra 26 Chatsworth Court Pembroke Road London W8 6DQ (in respect of parking space numbers 28 and 48) Vernon Guibarra 26 Chatsworth Court Pembroke Road London W8 6DQ (in respect of parking space numbers 28 and 48) 24 Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) LH AGL209286 LH AGL216320 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Kwai Meng Guibarra Flat 1019 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (in respect of parking space numbers 28 and 48) 116 CPO Schedule V2 Sanjeev Kumar Manjania 19 King Street Southall UB2 4DG (in respect of parking space number 30) 25 Occupiers Remarks Kwai Meng Guibarra Flat 1019 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (in respect of parking space numbers 28 and 48) Mr Raju Flat 1030 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NQ (in respect of parking space number 30) Mr Raju Flat 1030 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NQ (in respect of parking space number 30) Mohammad Tarik Flat 644 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NJ (in respect of parking space number 31) Mohammad Tarik Flat 644 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NJ (in respect of parking space number 31) LH AGL209291 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) 117 CPO Schedule V2 Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks Rahim Ramzan Ismail Flat 205 Warren House Warwick Road London W14 8TR (in respect of parking space number 32) Ramapantula Shankar 626 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NN (in respect of parking space number 32) Ramapantula Shankar 626 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NN (in respect of parking space number 32) LH AGL227552 Gianna Righi Flat 544 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 36) Gianna Righi Flat 544 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 36) LH AGL247803 Ashish Chopra Flat 442 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 37) Ashish Chopra Flat 442 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 37) LH AGL248990 26 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners 118 Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks Meena Furze 1281 Flushing Avenue Clearwater Florida 33764 USA (in respect of parking space number 38) Muthukamer Nagarathnam 312 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space number 38) Muthakumer Nagarathnam 312 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space number 38) LH AGL200536 John Anthony Furze 1281 Flushing Avenue Clearwater Florida 33764 USA (in respect of parking space number 38) Deepa Muthukamer 312 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space number 38) Deepa Muthukamer 312 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space number 38) Alexis Dorian Furze 8240 Kendall Drive Huntington Beach CA92646 USA (in respect of parking space number 38) CPO Schedule V2 27 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Freddie Lourdes Francisco Coutinho Flat 525 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 39) 119 Curtis Joseph De Leon 63 Cambridge Road Hounslow TW4 7BT (in respect of parking space number 41) CPO Schedule V2 28 Occupiers Remarks Freddie Lourdes Francisco Coutinho Flat 525 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 39) LH AGL198578 Saurabh Mehta Flat 220 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space number 40) Saurabh Mehta Flat 220 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space number 40) Suresh Garre Flat 503 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 41) Suresh Garre Flat 503 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 41) LH AGL266683 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) 120 CPO Schedule V2 Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Occupiers Remarks Shavil Kumar 9 Kilpatrick Way Hayes UB4 9SX (in respect of parking space numbers 42 and 91) Shavil Kumar 9 Kilpatrick Way Hayes UB4 9SX (in respect of parking space numbers 42 and 91) LH AGL264517 LH AGL274477 Spiram Vellore Venkataraman Flat 428 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 43) Spiram Vellore Venkataraman Flat 428 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 43) LH AGL248992 Piyanarth Rakshid Flat 428 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 43) Piyanarth Rakshid Flat 428 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 43) 29 Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) 121 CPO Schedule V2 Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Occupiers Remarks Carl Smith Flat 306 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space number 46) Carl Smith Flat 306 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space number 46) LH AGL241478 Tasleem Yasin Smith Flat 306 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space number 46) Tasleem Yasin Smith Flat 306 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space number 46) Manisha Mate Flat 925 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NN (in respect of parking space number 47) Manisha Mate Flat 925 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NN (in respect of parking space number 47) 30 Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) LH AGL275903 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees 122 Rashmi Gupta Flat 440 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space numbers 51 and 52) CPO Schedule V2 31 Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Uttam Hazari Flat 912 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NN (in respect of parking space number 49) Uttam Hazari Flat 912 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NN (in respect of parking space number 49) Sudip Nath Flat 422 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 50) Sudip Nath Flat 422 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 50) Rashmi Gupta Flat 440 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space numbers 51 and 52) Remarks LH AGL264514 LH AGL264518 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Occupiers Remarks Jayasankar Sankarapillai Flat 538 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space numbers 53 and 66) LH AGL309267 LH AGL309265 Shamita Joshi Flat 604 The Blenheim Centre Hounslow TW3 1NJ (in respect of parking space number 57) Shamita Joshi Flat 604 The Blenheim Centre Hounslow TW3 1NJ (in respect of parking space number 57) LH AGL241778 Nitin Prabhakar Watwe Flat 1025 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NQ (in respect of parking space numbers 60 and 71) Nitin Prabhakar Watwe LH AGL325286 Flat 1025 LH AGL274090 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NQ (in respect of parking space numbers 60 and 71) Jayasankar Sankarapillai Flat 538 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space numbers 53 and 66) 123 CPO Schedule V2 Shipra Kar Flat 630 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NN (in respect of parking space number 55) 32 Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) LH AGL268595 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees 124 CPO Schedule V2 Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Mr Gavin Flat 808 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NN (in respect of parking space number 61) Mr Gavin Flat 808 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NN (in respect of parking space number 61) Bappaditya Basu Flat 830 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NN (in respect of parking space number 62) Bappaditya Basu Flat 830 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NN (in respect of parking space number 62) Remarks Hossein Khorshidi Linje Veien 10 1084 Oslo Norway (in respect of parking space number 63) LH AGL198595 Bhanudev Mahadev Bhatt Flat 520 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NQ (in respect of parking space number 64) LH AGL199233 33 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) 125 CPO Schedule V2 Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks Linga Panchalingam 38 Raeden Park Road Aberdeen AB15 5LQ (in respect of parking space number 65) Sheetel Bisran 252-254 Wellington Road South Hounslow TW4 5JP (in respect of parking space number 65) Sheetel Bisran 252-254 Wellington Road South Hounslow TW4 5JP (in respect of parking space number 65) LH AGL197895 Paresh Panigrahi Flat 534 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 67) Paresh Panigrahi Flat 534 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 67) LH AGL286894 Natasha Jane Rawley Flat 420 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 68) Natasha Jane Rawley Flat 420 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 68) LH AGL241779 Victor Babatunde Ajayi 38 Raeden Park Road Aberdeen AB15 5LQ (in respect of parking space number 65) 34 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Occupiers Remarks 126 Christopher John Taylor Flat 1009 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space number 69) Christopher John Taylor LH AGL197859 Flat 1009 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space number 69) Rizwan Ahmed Khan Flat 215 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space number 70) LH AGL204928 Shamshudin Ahmedali Ratansi Datoo 13 Birchgrove House Strand Drive Kew Richmond TW9 4DN (in respect of parking space numbers 73, 79, 86 and 87) CPO Schedule V2 Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) 35 Mayank Sinha 236 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space number 73) Mayank Sinha 236 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space number 73) LH AGL227131 LH AGL241781 LH AGL227453 LH AGL241780 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) 127 CPO Schedule V2 Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks Jorge Masalles Sarragua 21 Devonshire Gardens London W4 3TN (in respect of parking space numbers 74 and 75) Jorge Masalles LH AGL290134 Sarragua LH AGL290152 21 Devonshire Gardens London W4 3TN (in respect of parking space numbers 74 and 75) Sumita Kar 21 Devonshire Gardens London W4 3TN (in respect of parking space numbers 74 and 75) Sumita Kar 21 Devonshire Gardens London W4 3TN (in respect of parking space numbers 74 and 75) Ravi Sabba Flat 641 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space numbers 77 and 90) Ravi Sabba Flat 641 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space numbers 77 and 90) 36 LH AGL323157 LH AGL274786 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks Mohsin Majid 212 Staines Road Hounslow TW3 3LR (in respect of parking space number 78) Arunara Chakrabarty 444 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 78) Arunara Chakrabarty 444 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 78) LH AGL293278 Glenn Carroll 638 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NJ (in respect of parking space number 79) Glenn Carroll 638 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NJ (in respect of parking space number 79) Rajesh Kumarasamy Flat 15 Tankerville Court School Road Hounslow TW3 1QJ (in respect of parking space number 80) Rajesh Kumarasamy Flat 15 Tankerville Court School Road Hounslow TW3 1QJ (in respect of parking space number 80) 128 Lessees or reputed lessees CPO Schedule V2 37 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) 129 CPO Schedule V2 Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Manish Mehra 3 West Mead South Ruislip HA4 0TW (in respect of parking space number 82) 38 Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Banel Ketan Flat 816 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NN (in respect of parking space number 81) Banel Ketan Flat 816 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NN (in respect of parking space number 81) Kiran Kamble Flat 636 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NJ (in respect of parking space number 82) Kiran Kamble Flat 636 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NJ (in respect of parking space number 82) Inderjit Pathania Flat 613 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NJ (in respect of parking space number 83) Inderjit Pathania Flat 613 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NJ (in respect of parking space number 83) Remarks LH AGL204794 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees 130 Vandna Sureshchandra Pandya 60 Burns Way Hounslow TW5 9BA (in respect of parking space number 88) CPO Schedule V2 39 Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Yogefh Vitavker Flat 546 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 86) Yogefh Vitavker Flat 546 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 86) Jagpreet Singh Flat 516 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 87) Jagpreet Singh Flat 516 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1ND (in respect of parking space number 87) Remarks Vandna Sureshchandra LH AGL241466 Pandya 60 Burns Way Hounslow TW5 9BA (in respect of parking space number 88) 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Nitin Rampal 43 Renaissance Court Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1QH (in respect of parking space number 93) Nitin Rampal 43 Renaissance Court Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1QH (in respect of parking space number 93) 131 Peter Frederick Blake Flat 1026 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NN (in respect of parking space number 95) Remarks LH AGL228084 Chantal Blake 24 Lower Green Road Esher KT10 8HD (in respect of parking space number 95) East Hope Town Limited c/o Castle Ryce Clock House 87 Paines Lane Pinner HA5 3BY (in respect of parking space number 96) CPO Schedule V2 40 Deepak Arora Flat 234 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space number 96) Deepak Arora Flat 234 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space number 96) LH AGL269435 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) 132 CPO Schedule V2 Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Annu Arora Flat 234 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space number 96) Annu Arora Flat 234 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space number 96) Remarks Thomas Joseph Mieszkowski 3 Meadow Close Broadmeadows Outwood Wakefield WF1 3TB (in respect of parking space number 97) Thomas Joseph Mieszkowski 3 Meadow Close Broadmeadows Outwood Wakefield WF1 3TB (in respect of parking space number 97) LH AGL270940 Ho Cheung Yun 1 Garside Close Hampton TW12 3AN (in respect of parking space number 98) Ho Cheung Yun 1 Garside Close Hampton TW12 3AN (in respect of parking space number 98) LH AGL285243 Sureshchandre Pandya 60 Burns Way Hounslow TW5 9BA (in respect of parking space number 99) Sureshchandre Pandya LH AGL241467 60 Burns Way Hounslow TW5 9BA (in respect of parking space number 99) 41 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Daniel Dar-Nell Flat 639 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space number 100) Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks Daniel Dar-Nell Flat 639 The Blenheim Centre Prince Regent Road Hounslow TW3 1NB (in respect of parking space number 100) LH AGL229226 133 London United Busways House Wellington Road Twickenham TW2 5NX (in respect of bus stop number H37) UK Parking Control Ltd Unit 29 1-2 Denham Parade Oxford Road Uxbridge UB9 4DZ (in respect of car park management) CPO Schedule V2 42 04/02/2015 Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) 26 57 square metres of basement car park and steps at ground level to car park known as Holloway Street Car Park, Prince Regent Road, Hounslow Legal and General Assurance Society Limited 1 Coleman Street London EC2R 5AA _ 27 119 square metres of paved crossing and access road known as Prince Regent Road adjacent to residential and retail units known as Blenheim Centre, Hounslow Legal and General Assurance Society Limited 1 Coleman Street London EC2R 5AA _ 134 Number on Map Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) _ Occupiers Remarks Unoccupied FH AGL217432 Unoccupied FH AGL135340 Buses and taxis only - no public right of way - not adopted Unknown (in respect of mines and minerals) 28 All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 214 square metres of car park known as Holloway Street Car Park, Prince Regent Road and half width of highway known as Holloway Street, Hounslow CPO Schedule V2 The Mayor and the Burgesses of the London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (including in respect of presumption to subsoil) _ 43 _ UK Parking Control Ltd FH MX196855 Unit 29 1-2 Denham Parade Oxford Road Uxbridge UB9 4DZ (in respect of car park management) 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) 29 135 64 square metres of verge to access road known as Prince Regent Road adjacent to residential and retail units known as Blenheim Centre, Hounslow Occupiers Remarks London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) Legal and General Assurance Society Limited 1 Coleman Street London EC2R 5AA _ _ Unoccupied FH AGL135340 _ _ Royal Mail Estates Limited 100 Victoria Embankment London EC4Y 0HQ FH AGL158760 Unknown (in respect of mines and minerals) 30 All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 374 square metres of exit road from commercial premises known as Hounslow Delivery Office, footpath to Enquiry Office and half width of highway known as Holloway Street, Hounslow CPO Schedule V2 Royal Mail Estates Limited 100 Victoria Embankment London EC4Y 0HQ (including in respect of presumption to subsoil) 44 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) 31 136 All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 98 square metres of residential premises known as 47 Holloway Street and half width of highway known as Holloway Street, Hounslow The Mayor and the Burgesses of the London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (including in respect of presumption to subsoil) Remarks London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) Omega Housing Limited Omega House 495 Lea Bridge Road London E10 7EB London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) CPO Schedule V2 Occupiers Miss Matazins 47 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD Miss Matazins 47 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD FH MX223953 London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) 45 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) 32 All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 121 square metres of residential premises known as 45 Holloway Street and half width of highway known as Holloway Street, Hounslow Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks The Mayor and the Burgesses of the London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (including in respect of presumption to subsoil) Omega Housing Limited Omega House 495 Lea Bridge Road London E10 7EB Tiffany Paris Parton 45 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD Tiffany Paris Parton 45 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD FH NGL205375 137 London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) 33 All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 128 square metres of residential premises known as 43 Holloway Street and half width of highway known as Holloway Street, Hounslow CPO Schedule V2 The Mayor and the Burgesses of the London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (including in respect of presumption to subsoil) London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) Omega Housing Limited Omega House 495 Lea Bridge Road London E10 7EB 46 Amy Norris 43 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD Amy Norris 43 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD FH NGL190890 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) 34 138 All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 93 square metres of residential premises known as 41 Holloway Street and half width of highway known as Holloway Street, Hounslow All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 102 square metres of residential premises known as 39 Holloway Street and half width of highway known as Holloway Street, Hounslow CPO Schedule V2 Remarks London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) The Mayor and the Burgesses of the London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (including in respect of presumption to subsoil) _ The Occupier 41 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) 35 Occupiers The Occupier 41 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD FH NGL194081 London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) The Mayor and the Burgesses of the London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (including in respect of presumption to subsoil) _ 47 Sall Violante 39 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD Sall Violante 39 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD FH AGL14439 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) 36 139 All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 94 square metres of residential premises known as 37 Holloway Street and half width of highway known as Holloway Street, Hounslow The Mayor and the Burgesses of the London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (including in respect of presumption to subsoil) All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 95 square metres of residential premises known as 35 Holloway Street and half width of highway known as Holloway Street, Hounslow CPO Schedule V2 Remarks London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) Omega Housing Limited Omega House 495 Lea Bridge Road London E10 7EB R Suganthiny 37 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) 37 Occupiers R Suganthiny 37 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD FH NGL85920 London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) Amy Rose Simpson 35 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD (including in respect of presumption to subsoil) _ 48 _ Amy Rose Simpson 35 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD FH NGL19058 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) 38 Occupiers Remarks London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) 140 All interests, other than those of Unknown the acquiring authority, in 24 (including in respect of square metres of passageway presumption to subsoil) in between 35 and 33 Holloway Street and half width of highway known as Holloway Street, Hounslow _ _ London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) Unregistered Jolly Bath 33 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD FH NGL307029 London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) 39 All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 103 square metres of residential premises known as 33 Holloway Street and half width of highway known as Holloway Street, Hounslow CPO Schedule V2 The Mayor and the Burgesses of the London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (including in respect of presumption to subsoil) _ 49 Jolly Bath 33 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) 40 141 All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 118 square metres of residential premises known as 31 Holloway Street and half width of highway known as Holloway Street, Hounslow The Mayor and the Burgesses of the London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (including in respect of presumption to subsoil) All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 113 square metres of residential premises known as 29 Holloway Street and half width of highway known as Holloway Street, Hounslow CPO Schedule V2 Remarks London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) Omega Housing Limited Omega House 495 Lea Bridge Road London E10 7EB Zeinab Ismail 31 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) 41 Occupiers Zeinab Ismail 31 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD FH NGL303572 London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) The Mayor and the Burgesses of the London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (including in respect of presumption to subsoil) _ 50 The Occupier 29 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD The Occupier 29 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD FH NGL310044 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) 42 142 All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 114 square metres of residential premises known as 27 Holloway Street and half width of highway known as Holloway Street, Hounslow The Mayor and the Burgesses of the London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (including in respect of presumption to subsoil) All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 133 square metres of residential premises known as 25 Holloway Street and half width of highway known as Holloway Street, Hounslow CPO Schedule V2 Remarks London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) Omega Housing Limited Omega House 495 Lea Bridge Road London E10 7EB Jade Parton 27 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) 43 Occupiers Jade Parton 27 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD FH NGL315472 London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) Surinder Singh Sehajpal 25 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD (including in respect of presumption to subsoil) _ 51 Shaikh Mohammed Ibrahim 25 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD Shaikh Mohammed Ibrahim 25 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD FH NGL302188 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Zeenat Ibrahim 25 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD Zeenat Ibrahim 25 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD Remarks 143 London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) 44 All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 97 square metres of residential premises known as 23 Holloway Street and half width of highway known as Holloway Street, Hounslow The Mayor and the Burgesses of the London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (including in respect of presumption to subsoil) _ London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) CPO Schedule V2 Nadia Ghose 23 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD Nadia Ghose 23 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD FH NGL316076 London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) 52 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) 45 All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 125 square metres of residential premises known as 21 Holloway Street and half width of highway known as Holloway Street, Hounslow Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks The Mayor and the Burgesses of the London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (including in respect of presumption to subsoil) Omega Housing Limited Omega House 495 Lea Bridge Road London E10 7EB Emma O'Brien 21 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD Emma O'Brien 21 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD FH MX199610 144 London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) 46 All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 94 square metres of residential premises known as 19 Holloway Street and half width of highway known as Holloway Street, Hounslow London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) Badsha Miah 19 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD (last known address) (including in respect of presumption to subsoil) _ London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) CPO Schedule V2 53 Raja Reddy Dasaram 19 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD Raja Reddy Dasaram 19 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD Usharani Dasaram 19 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD Usharani Dasaram 19 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD FH NGL303952 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) 47 145 All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 100 square metres of residential premises known as 17 Holloway Street and half width of highway known as Holloway Street, Hounslow Jean Ellen Louise Raymond 17 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD (including in respect of presumption to subsoil) _ _ London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) 48 All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 117 square metres of residential premises known as 15 Holloway Street and half width of highway known as Holloway Street, Hounslow CPO Schedule V2 Jean Ellen Louise Raymond 17 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD FH NGL308746 London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) Kate Ruth Smith 15 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD (including in respect of presumption to subsoil) _ 54 _ Kate Ruth Smith 15 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD FH AGL91815 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) 49 146 All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 159 square metres of residential premises known as 13 Holloway Street and half width of highway known as Holloway Street, Hounslow Occupiers Remarks London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) Moin Aziz Syyed 13 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD (including in respect of presumption to subsoil) _ London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) _ Moin Aziz Syyed 13 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD FH P40520 Basitt Mahmood Syyed 13 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) CPO Schedule V2 55 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) 50 All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 143 square metres of residential premises known as 11 Holloway Street and half width of highway known as Holloway Street, Hounslow 147 51 All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 89 square metres of half width of highway known as Holloway Street adjacent to former Post Office known 9 Holloway Street, Hounslow CPO Schedule V2 Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Narinder Kaur Tamber 11 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD (including in respect of presumption to subsoil) _ Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) _ Occupiers Remarks Narinder Kaur Tamber 11 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD FH NGL2641 Manjit SinghTamber 11 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD (including in respect of presumption to subsoil) Vijaya Bhaskar Palavelli 11 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) Royal Mail Estates Limited 100 Victoria Embankment London EC4Y 0HQ (in respect of presumption to subsoil) _ 56 _ London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) FH AGL158760 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) FH NGL69880 London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) 52 148 All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 16 square metres of half width of highway known as Holloway Street, Hounslow The Mayor and the Burgesses of the London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (in respect of presumption to subsoil) _ _ London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) CPO Schedule V2 57 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) 53 All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 12 square metres of half width of highway known as Holloway Street, Hounslow Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees The Mayor and the Burgesses of the London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (in respect of presumption to subsoil) Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks _ _ London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) FH MX262849 _ _ London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) FH MX213309 149 London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) 54 All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 12 square metres of half width of pedestrian footway known as Holloway Street, Hounslow CPO Schedule V2 The Mayor and the Burgesses of the London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (in respect of presumption to subsoil) 58 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks Thakers Food Limited 14 Avondale Gardens Hounslow TW4 5HZ (in respect of 162B High Street) FH NGL226226 London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) 150 55 Not allocated 56 Not allocated 57 Not allocated 58 20 square metres of retail premises known as 162B High Street, Hounslow The right for the acquiring authority and its lessees, licensees, successors in title, assigns and those authorised by any of there to: Dimple's Beauty Limited c/o SRV Delson Amba House 2nd Floor Delson Suite 15 College Road Harrow HA1 1BA Thakers Food Limited 14 Avondale Gardens Hounslow TW4 5HZ (in respect of 162B High Street) _ swing the jib of a crane, loaded or unloaded through the airspace over the land/premises. CPO Schedule V2 59 04/02/2015 Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Owners or reputed owners 59 16 square metres of retail premises known as 170 High Street and residential premises known as Flat 1, Flat 2, Flat 3 and Flat 4, 170 High Street, Hounslow Jagjit Singh Nanda Pure Life Unit 4 Triangle Centre 399 Uxbridge Road Southall UB1 3EJ The right for the acquiring authority and its lessees, licensees, successors in title, assigns and those authorised by any of there to: Jaskaran Singh Purewal Pure Life Unit 4 Triangle Centre 399 Uxbridge Road Southall UB1 3EJ The Occupier Flat 1 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ Kunwar Ajit Singh Pure Life Unit 4 Triangle Centre 399 Uxbridge Road Southall UB1 3EJ Cleofe Albano Flat 2 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ Josh Ajit Singh Arora Pure Life Unit 4 Triangle Centre 399 Uxbridge Road Southall UB1 3EJ Daniel Donovan Flat 2 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ 151 Number on Map Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Lessees or reputed lessees _ Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) _ Occupiers Remarks Eva Fashions 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ FH MX172505 swing the jib of a crane, loaded or unloaded through the airspace over the land/premises. CPO Schedule V2 60 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks Amruta Save Flat 3 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ 152 Nirmal Save Flat 3 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ The Occupier Flat 4 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ 60 101 square metres of retail premises known as 172 High Street, Hounslow CPO Schedule V2 Aurelia Properties Limited Foret Windmill Park Wrotham Heath TN15 7SY Trespass Europe Limited Vermont House 149 Vermont Street Kinning Park Glasgow G41 1LU 61 _ Trespass Europe Limited Vermont House 149 Vermont Street Kinning Park Glasgow G41 1LU FH MX156733 LH AGL263041 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Toplain Limited 13 Peel Road Douglas Isle of Man IM1 4LR Kentucky Fried Chicken (Great Britain) Limited Orion Gate Guildford Road Woking GU22 7NJ (in respect of 182-184 High Street) Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks The right for the acquiring authority and its lessees, licensees, successors in title, assigns and those authorised by any of there to: swing the jib of a crane, loaded or unloaded through the airspace over the land/premises. 61 153 438 square metres of retail premises known as 182 - 186 (evens) High Street, Hounslow The right for the acquiring authority and its lessees, licensees, successors in title, assigns and those authorised by any of there to: swing the jib of a crane, loaded or unloaded through the airspace over the land/premises. CPO Schedule V2 The Optical Shop (Hounslow) Limited Unit 3 The Elmsleigh Centre High Street Staines TW18 4QB (in respect of 186 High Street) 62 _ Kentucky Fried Chicken FH MX341859 (Great Britain) Limited LH AGL18686 Orion Gate LH AGL36713 Guildford Road Woking GU22 7NJ (in respect of 182-184 High Street) The Optical Shop (Hounslow) Limited Unit 3 The Elmsleigh Centre High Street Staines TW18 4QB (in respect of 186 High Street) 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) 62 294 square metres of retail premises known as 188, 188a and 188b High Street, Hounslow Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees SJR Retail LLP 5th Floor 94-96 Wigmore Street London W1U 3RF Deichmann-Shoes UK Limited The Laurels 18 Main Street Lubenham Market Harborough LE16 9TF (in respect of 188-188a High Street) 154 The right for the acquiring authority and its lessees, licensees, successors in title, assigns and those authorised by any of there to: Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) _ Bank of Scotland plc The Mound Edinburgh EH1 1YZ (in respect of 188b High Street) 99 square metres of retail premises known as 190 High Street, Hounslow CPO Schedule V2 Taxtone Limited 48 Riverside Walk Isleworth TW7 6HP Talk Talk Mobile Phones Limited 1351 Yardley Wood Road Shirley Solihull B90 1JU 63 Remarks Deichmann-Shoes UK FH MX340238 Limited LH AGL249858 The Laurels 18 Main Street Lubenham Market Harborough LE16 9TF (in respect of 188-188a High Street) The Carphone LH AGL29705 Warehouse Limited 1 Portal Way London W3 6RS (in respect of 188b High Street) swing the jib of a crane, loaded or unloaded through the airspace over the land/premises. 63 Occupiers _ Talk Talk Mobile Phones Limited 1351 Yardley Wood Road Shirley Solihull B90 1JU (trading as 02) FH MX65721 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks Talarius Limited Birch House Woodlands Business Park Linford Wood Milton Keynes MK14 6EW (trading as Quicksilver Amusements) FH MX214356 The right for the acquiring authority and its lessees, licensees, successors in title, assigns and those authorised by any of there to: swing the jib of a crane, loaded or unloaded through the airspace over the land/premises. 64 155 97 square metres of service Steven Sharpe yard and retail premises known Kenwood House as 192 High Street, Hounslow Kenwood Close London NW3 7JL The right for the acquiring authority and its lessees, licensees, successors in title, assigns and those authorised by any of there to: RAL Limited Birch House Woodlands Business Park Linford Wood Milton Keynes MK14 6EW _ Gavin Mark Sharpe Kenwood House Kenwood Close London NW3 7JL swing the jib of a crane, loaded or unloaded through the airspace over the land/premises. CPO Schedule V2 64 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) 65 69 square metres of service yard and car parking to rear of retail premises known as 194 High Street, Hounslow Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Bridge Estates Limited First Floor 10 College Road Harrow HA1 1BE Finechance Limited 194 High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) _ The right for the acquiring authority and its lessees, licensees, successors in title, assigns and those authorised by any of there to: Occupiers Remarks Moda Italiana 194 High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL (in respect of parking) FH NGL261851 LH AGL293111 The Occupier 194A High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL (in respect of parking) 156 swing the jib of a crane, loaded or unloaded through the airspace over the land/premises. Stephanie Small 194B High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL (in respect of parking) Daniel Shearman 194B High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL (in respect of parking) 66 17 square metres of retail premises known as 196 High Street, Hounslow CPO Schedule V2 Archer Kane Homes Limited 41 Butts Hill Road Woodly Reading RG5 4NJ Howard Scott Limited 44 High Street Chesham HP5 1EP 65 _ JS Pound 196 High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL FH MX71032 Archer Kane sold property in December 2014 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) The right for the acquiring authority and its lessees, licensees, successors in title, assigns and those authorised by any of there to: Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) FH AGL294492 Ealing Properties Limited c/o Sawhney Consulting No 1 Olympic Way London HA9 0NP swing the jib of a crane, loaded or unloaded through the airspace over the land/premises. 67 157 All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 69 square metres of half width of highway known as Alexandra Road adjacent to Holloway Street Car Park, Hounslow The Mayor and the Burgesses of the London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (in respect of presumption to subsoil) _ _ The right for the acquiring authority and its lessees, licensees, successors in title, assigns and those authorised by any of there to: London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN swing the jib of a crane, loaded (as highway authority) or unloaded through the airspace over the land/premises. CPO Schedule V2 66 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) 68 All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 76 square metres of half width of highway known as Alexandra Road adjacent to residential premises known as 2A and 2B Balfour Road, Hounslow Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees The Mayor and the Burgesses of the London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (in respect of presumption to subsoil) Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks _ _ London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) FH MX201699 _ _ London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) FH NGL420918 London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN swing the jib of a crane, loaded (as highway authority) or unloaded through the airspace over the land/premises. 158 The right for the acquiring authority and its lessees, licensees, successors in title, assigns and those authorised by any of there to: 69 All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 14 square metres of half width of highway known as Alexandra Road adjacent to Alexandra House, Balfour Road, Hounslow CPO Schedule V2 Holding & Management (Solitaire) Limited 10 Pollen House Cork Street London W1S 3NP (in respect of presumption to subsoil) 67 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) FH AGL158092 The right for the acquiring authority and its lessees, licensees, successors in title, assigns and those authorised by any of there to: London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN swing the jib of a crane, loaded (as highway authority) or unloaded through the airspace over the land/premises. 159 70 All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 97 square metres of half width of highway known as Alexandra Road adjacent to private car park, Alexandra Road, Hounslow Legal and General Assurance Society Limited 1 Coleman Street London EC2R 5AA (in respect of presumption to subsoil) _ _ The right for the acquiring authority and its lessees, licensees, successors in title, assigns and those authorised by any of there to: London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN swing the jib of a crane, loaded (as highway authority) or unloaded through the airspace over the land/premises. CPO Schedule V2 68 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) 71 70 square metres of basement car park, paved crossing and access road known as Prince Regent Road adjacent to residential and retail units known as Blenheim Centre, Hounslow Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks 160 Legal and General Assurance Society Limited 1 Coleman Street London EC2R 5AA (in respect of presumption to subsoil) _ _ Unoccupied FH AGL135340 The Mayor and the Burgesses of the London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN _ _ Unoccupied FH AGL294492 The right for the acquiring authority and its lessees, licensees, successors in title, assigns and those authorised by any of there to: swing the jib of a crane, loaded or unloaded through the airspace over the land/premises. 71A 27 square metres of basement car park and access road known as Prince Regent Street, Hounslow CPO Schedule V2 69 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks Unoccupied FH AGL135340 The right for the acquiring authority and its lessees, licensees, successors in title, assigns and those authorised by any of there to: swing the jib of a crane, loaded or unloaded through the airspace over the land/premises. 161 72 33 square metres of paved crossing and access road known as Prince Regent Road adjacent to residential and retail units known as Blenheim Centre, Hounslow Legal and General Assurance Society Limited 1 Coleman Street London EC2R 5AA (in respect of presumption to subsoil) _ _ The right for the acquiring authority and its lessees, licensees, successors in title, assigns and those authorised by any of there to: swing the jib of a crane, loaded or unloaded through the airspace over the land/premises. CPO Schedule V2 70 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) 72A Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees 5 square metres of access road The Mayor and the known as Prince Regent Street, Burgesses of the London Hounslow Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks _ _ Unoccupied FH AGL294492 _ _ Royal Mail Estates Limited 100 Victoria Embankment London EC4Y 0HQ FH AGL158760 162 The right for the acquiring authority and its lessees, licensees, successors in title, assigns and those authorised by any of there to: swing the jib of a crane, loaded or unloaded through the airspace over the land/premises. 73 1081 square metres of commercial premises known as Hounslow Delivery Office, Hounslow CPO Schedule V2 Royal Mail Estates Limited 100 Victoria Embankment London EC4Y 0HQ 71 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees British Telecommunications plc 81 Newgate Street London EC1A 7AJ Autumnwindow Limited 81 Newgate Street London EC1A 7AJ Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks Royal Mail Estates Limited 100 Victoria Embankment London EC4Y 0HQ FH AGL101504 LH AGL101506 The right for the acquiring authority and its lessees, licensees, successors in title, assigns and those authorised by any of there to: swing the jib of a crane, loaded or unloaded through the airspace over the land/premises. 74 163 54 square metres of Depot at Hounslow Telephone Exchange, Holloway Street, Hounslow The right for the acquiring authority and its lessees, licensees, successors in title, assigns and those authorised by any of there to: British Telecommunications plc 81 Newgate Street London EC1A 7AJ _ British LH AGL101505 Telecommunications plc and 81 Newgate Street LH AGL101507 London EC1A 7AJ swing the jib of a crane, loaded or unloaded through the airspace over the land/premises. Royal Mail Estates Limited 100 Victoria Embankment London EC4Y 0HQ CPO Schedule V2 72 LH NGL515471 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Autumnwindow No. 2 Limited 81 Newgate Street London EC1A 7AJ 75 217 square metres of commercial premises known as Hounslow Delivery Office, 9 Holloway Street, Hounslow Remarks LH AGL101507 Royal Mail Estates Limited 100 Victoria Embankment London EC4Y 0HQ _ _ Royal Mail Estates Limited 100 Victoria Embankment London EC4Y 0HQ FH AGL158760 The Mayor and the Burgesses of the London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (in respect of presumption to subsoil) _ _ London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN (as highway authority) FH NGL69880 MX262849 MX213309 164 The right for the acquiring authority and its lessees, licensees, successors in title, assigns and those authorised by any of there to: swing the jib of a crane, loaded or unloaded through the airspace over the land/premises. 76 All interests, other than those of the acquiring authority, in 44 square metres of half width of highway known as Matisse Road, Hounslow CPO Schedule V2 73 04/02/2015 Number on Map Extent, description and situation of the land (1) (2) Qualifying persons under section12(2)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - name and address (3) Owners or reputed owners Lessees or reputed lessees Tenants or reputed tenants (other than lessees) Occupiers Remarks 165 The right for the acquiring authority and its lessees, licensees, successors in title, assigns and those authorised by any of there to: London Borough of Hounslow The Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN swing the jib of a crane, loaded (as highway authority) or unloaded through the airspace over the land/premises. CPO Schedule V2 74 04/02/2015 Table 2 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address 1 Description of Interest to be acquired Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address 166 Barclays Bank plc Mortgage dated 13 August 2012 1 Churchill Place London E14 5HP and Business Lending Services PO Box 16276 Birmingham B2 2XE (as mortgagee of a registered charge on freehold title number NGL226226) (mortgagor Dimple's Beauty Limited) Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim _ _ Lloyds Bank plc Mortgage dated 17 January 1989 25 Gresham Street London EC2V 7HN (as mortgagee of a registered charge on leasehold title number NGL229643) (mortgagor Peter John Roper) CPO Schedule V2 75 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) 167 Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired 2 Charity Commission Direct PO Box 1227 Liverpool L69 3UG Restriction: no disposition to which section 36 or 38 of the Charities Act 1993 applies is to be registered unless the instrument contains a certificate complying with section 37(2) of that Act as appropriate _ _ 3 Blenheim Trading Limited 1 Knightsbridge 3rd Floor London SW1X 7LX Option to sell contained in a Call Option Agreement dated 14 June 2010 _ _ Jagath Don Manuwelge Don 166A High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 166A High Street) Right of way Amlika Saunne 166A High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 166A High Street) Right of way Sujay Sohani 166B High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 166B High Street) Right of way CPO Schedule V2 Name and address 76 Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) 4 Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) 168 Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Blenheim Trading Limited 1 Knightsbridge 3rd Floor London SW1X 7LX Option to sell contained in a Call Option Agreement dated 14 June 2010 Swarnathilaka Kumari Hamy Abeykone 168A High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 168A High Street) Right of way Kasun Hapuarachchi 168A High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 168A High Street) Right of way Shantha Hapu Arachchige 168A High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 168A High Street) Right of way David Powley 168B High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 168B High Street) Right of way CPO Schedule V2 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address 77 Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim _ _ 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address 5 Description of Interest to be acquired Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address State Bank of India Mortgage dated 19 June 2009 15 King Street London EC2V 8EA (as mortgagee of a registered charge on freehold title number MX435297) (mortgagee Jagjit Singh Nanda, Jaskaran Singh Purewal, Kunwar Ajit Singh and Josh Ajit Singh Arora) Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim _ _ 169 Dimple's Beauty Limited c/o SRV Delson Amba House 2nd Floor Delson Suite 15 College Road Harrow HA1 1BA (in respect of 162A, 162B, 162C and 162D High Street) Right of way The Occupier 162A High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 162A High Street) Right of way CPO Schedule V2 78 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) 170 Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Thakers Food Limited 14 Avondale Gardens Hounslow TW4 5HZ (in respect of 162B High Street) Right of way The Occupier 162C High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 162C High Street) Right of way The Occupier 162D High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 162D High Street) Right of way Canning International Limited Second Floor Capital City Independence Avenue PO Box 1312 Victoria Mahe Seychelles and c/o 90 Long Acre London WC2E 9RA (in respect of 164 and 164A High Street) Right of way CPO Schedule V2 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address 79 Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired British Heart Foundation Greater London House 180 Hampstead Road London NW1 7AW (in respect of 164 High Street) Right of way Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim 171 Legal and General Assurance Society Right of way Limited 1 Coleman Street London EC2R 5AA (in respect of 166 and 168 High Street) Jagath Don Manuwelge Don 166A High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 166A High Street) Right of way Amlika Saunne 166A High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 166A High Street) Right of way Sujay Sohani 166B High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 166B High Street) Right of way CPO Schedule V2 80 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) 172 Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Rabani Ayoubi 3 Vimy Close Hounslow TW4 5AF (trading as Selections) (in respect of 168 High Street) Right of way Swarnathilaka Kumari Hamy Abeykone 168A High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 168A High Street) Right of way Kasun Hapuarachchi 168A High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 168A High Street) Right of way Shantha Hapu Arachchige 168A High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 168A High Street) Right of way David Powley 168B High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 168B High Street) Right of way CPO Schedule V2 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address 81 Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) 173 Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Eva Fashions 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 170 High Street) Right of way The Occupier Flat 1 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of Flat 1 170 High Street) Right of way Cleofe Albano Flat 2 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of Flat 2 170 High Street) Right of way Daniel Donovan Flat 2 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of Flat 2 170 High Street) Right of way CPO Schedule V2 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address 82 Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) 174 Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Amruta Save Flat 3 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of Flat 3 170 High Street) Right of way Nirmal Save Flat 3 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of Flat 3 170 High Street) Right of way The Occupier Flat 4 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of Flat 4 170 High Street) Right of way CPO Schedule V2 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address 83 Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address 6 Description of Interest to be acquired Name and address State Bank of India Mortgage dated 19 June 2009 15 King Street London EC2V 8EA (as mortgagee of a registered charge on freehold title number MX172505) (mortgagor Jagjit Singh Nanda, Jaskaran Singh Purewal, Kunwar Ajit Singh and Josh Ajit Singh Arora) 175 Eva Fashions 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 170 High Street) Right of way The Occupier Flat 1 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of Flat 1 170 High Street) Right of way Cleofe Albano Flat 2 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of Flat 2 170 High Street) Right of way CPO Schedule V2 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim _ 84 _ 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) 176 Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Daniel Donovan Flat 2 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of Flat 2 170 High Street) Right of way Amruta Save Flat 3 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of Flat 3 170 High Street) Right of way Nirmal Save Flat 3 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of Flat 3 170 High Street) Right of way The Occupier Flat 4 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of Flat 4 170 High Street) Right of way CPO Schedule V2 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address 85 Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Nationwide Building Society Mortgage dated 25 April 2008 Nationwide House Pipers Way Swindon SN38 1NW and One Threadneedle Street London EC2R 8AW (as mortgagee of a registered charge on freehold title number MX156733) (mortgagor Aurelia Properties Limited) _ _ 8 Nationwide Building Society Mortgage dated 25 April 2008 Nationwide House Pipers Way Swindon SN38 1NW and One Threadneedle Street London EC2R 8AW (as mortgagee of a registered charge on freehold title number AGL7600) (mortgagor Aurelia Properties Limited) _ _ 177 7 CPO Schedule V2 86 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address 9 10 Description of Interest to be acquired _ Name and address _ 178 CPO Schedule V2 Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim _ Nationwide Building Society Mortgage dated 03 October 2006 Nationwide House Pipers Way Swindon SN38 1NW and One Threadneedle Street London EC2R 8AW (as mortgagee of a registered charge on freehold title number NGL90119) (mortgagor Toplain Limited) Barclays Bank plc 1 Churchill Place London E14 5HP (as mortgagee of a charge on leasehold title number NGL545778) (mortgagor Reed Employment Limited) Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Unknown _ Unknown restrictive covenants as may have been imposed thereon prior to 14 June 1962 and are still subsisting and capable of being enforced Charge referred to in Deed of Guarantee and Debenture dated 24 April 1981 87 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) 11 Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) 179 Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Toplain Limited 13 Peel Road Douglas Isle of Man IM1 4LR (in respect of 178 and 180 High Street) Right of way Reed Employment Limited Academy Court 94 Chancery Lane London WC2A 1DT (in respect of 178 High Street) Right of way Mark One Travel Limited 136 The Broadway Southall UB1 1QN (in respect of 178A High Street) Right of way ITS Convenience Store 178 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 178 High Street) Right of way CPO Schedule V2 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim _ 88 _ 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) 180 Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired The Occupier 178A High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 178A High Street) Right of way The Occupier Flat 1 178 High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL (in respect of Flat 1 178 High Street) Right of way The Occupier Flat 2 178 High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL (in respect of Flat 2 178 High Street) Right of way The Body Shop International plc Watersmead Littlehampton BN17 6LS (in respect of 180 High Street) Right of way CPO Schedule V2 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address 89 Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim 181 12 Nationwide Building Society Mortgage dated 17 April 2003 Nationwide House Pipers Way Swindon SN38 1NW and One Threadneedle Street London EC2R 8AW (as mortgagee of a registered charge on freehold title number MX341859) (mortgagor Toplain Limited) _ _ 13 Santander UK plc Mortgage dated 27 June 2014 2 Triton Square Regents Place London NW1 3AN (as mortgagee of a registered charge on freehold title number MX340238) (mortgagor SJR Retail LLP - charge reference NT444699) _ _ 14 Bank of Ireland Mortgage dated 09 November 2001 40 Mepsil Road Dublin 4 (as mortgagee of a registered charge on freehold title number MX65721) (mortgagor Taxtone Limited) _ _ CPO Schedule V2 90 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim HSBC Private Bank (UK) Limited Mortgage dated 01 July 1997 8 Canada Square London E14 5HQ and 78 St James's Street London SW1A 1JB (as mortgagee of a registered charge on freehold title number MX214356) (mortgagor Steven Sharpe and Gavin Mark Sharpe) _ _ 16 Nationwide Building Society Mortgage dated 09 September 1999 Nationwide House Pipers Way Swindon SN38 1NW and One Threadneedle Street London EC2R 8AW (as mortgagee of a registered charge on freehold title number NGL261851) (mortgagor Bridge Estates Limited) _ _ _ _ 182 15 17 CPO Schedule V2 _ _ 91 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address 183 18 Not allocated 19 Not allocated 20 Not allocated 21 Not allocated 22 Not allocated 23 Not allocated 24 Legal and General Assurance Society Limited 1 Coleman Street London EC2R 5AA CPO Schedule V2 Description of Interest to be acquired Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Restriction; no disposition of the Unknown registered estate is to be registered without a certificate that the provisions of clause 5 of a Deed of Covenant dated 14 June 2010 have been complied with 92 Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Rights of drainage and rights of entry for maintaining the drains and watercourses (21 May 1936, 01 June 1951); rights of drainage and running of water and soil, gas and electricity 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) 184 Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Name and address Blenheim Trading Limited 1 Knightsbridge 3rd Floor London SW1X 7LX Unilateral Notice in respect of an Agreement to grant a Deed of Easement dated 12 November 2004 Unknown successors in title to Arthur Restrictive covenants relating to use Edward Fricker of land known as Holloway Street Car Park; no house or building shall be used for any trade manufacture or business, restrictions relating to building lines (Conveyance 28 March 1876, 02 May 1876 and 23 May 1876 and 18 July 1876, 08 June 1877, 15 June 1877, 15 June 1877) Dimple's Beauty Limited c/o SRV Delson Amba House 2nd Floor Delson Suite 15 College Road Harrow HA1 1BA (in respect of 162A, 162B, 162C and 162D High Street) Right of way Unknown The Occupier 162A High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 162A High Street) Right of way Unknown successors in title to William Restrictive covenants relating to use Melmoth Walters and Wiliam Henry of land known as Smithy Lane; not to Rice erect or allow any building or other obstruction to be erected or built and that the same should be used as a road or way only (Conveyance 01 September 1904) CPO Schedule V2 93 Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Unknown restrictive covenants as may have been imposed thereon prior to 14 June 1962 and are still subsisting and capable of being enforced 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) 185 Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Thakers Food Limited 14 Avondale Gardens Hounslow TW4 5HZ (in respect of 162B High Street) Right of way The Occupier 162C High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 162C High Street) Right of way The Occupier 162D High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 162D High Street) Right of way Canning International Limited Second Floor Capital City Independence Avenue PO Box 1312 Victoria Mahe Seychelles and c/o 90 Long Acre London WC2E 9RA (in respect of 164 and 164A High Street) Right of way CPO Schedule V2 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address 94 Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) 186 Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired British Heart Foundation Greater London House 180 Hampstead Road London NW1 7AW (in respect of 164 High Street) Right of way Louise Welford 164A High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 164A High Street) Right of way Rosemary Welford 164A High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 164A High Street) Right of way Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Legal and General Assurance Society Limited 1 Coleman Street London EC2R 5AA (in respect of 166 High Street) Jagath Don Manuwelge Don 166A High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 166A High Street) CPO Schedule V2 Right of way 95 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) 187 Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Amlika Saunne 166A High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 166A High Street) Right of way Sujay Sohani 166B High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 166B High Street) Right of way Rabani Ayoubi 3 Vimy Close Hounslow TW4 5AF (trading as Selections) (in respect of 168 High Street) Right of way Swarnathilaka Kumari Hamy Abeykone 168A High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 168A High Street) Right of way Kasun Hapuarachchi 168A High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 168A High Street) Right of way CPO Schedule V2 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address 96 Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) 188 Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Shantha Hapu Arachchige 168A High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 168A High Street) Right of way David Powley 168B High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 168B High Street) Right of way Eva Fashions 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 170 High Street) Right of way The Occupier Flat 1 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of Flat 1 170 High Street) Right of way Cleofe Albano Flat 2 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of Flat 2 170 High Street) Right of way CPO Schedule V2 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address 97 Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) 189 Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Daniel Donovan Flat 2 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of Flat 2 170 High Street) Right of way Amruta Save Flat 3 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of Flat 3 170 High Street) Right of way Nirmal Save Flat 3 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of Flat 3 170 High Street) Right of way The Occupier Flat 4 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of Flat 4 170 High Street) Right of way CPO Schedule V2 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address 98 Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) 190 Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Aurelia Properties Limited Foret Windmill Park Wrotham Heath TN15 7SY (in respect of 172 High Street) Right of way Trespass Europe Limited Vermont House 149 Vermont Street Kinning Park Glasgow G41 1LU (in respect of 172 High Street) Right of way Mantle Investments Limited Second Floor Capital City Independence Avenue PO Box 1312 Victoria Mahe Seychelles and c/o Pelham Associates 90 Long Acre London WC2E 9RA (in respect of 174 High Street) Right of way CPO Schedule V2 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address 99 Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) 191 Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Specsavers Optical Superstores Limited Forum 6 Parkway Solent Business Park Whiteley Fareham PO15 7PA (in respect of 174 High Street) Right of way Bhogal Partners Solicitors LLP 1st and 2nd Floors 174 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 174 High Street) Right of way Toplain Limited 13 Peel Road Douglas Isle of Man IM1 4LR (in respect of 178-186 High Street) Right of way Reed Employment Limited Academy Court 94 Chancery Lane London WC2A 1DT (in respect of 178 High Street) Right of way CPO Schedule V2 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address 100 Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) 192 Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Mark One Travel Limited 136 The Broadway Southall UB1 1QN (in respect of 178A High Street) Right of way ITS Convenience Store 178 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 178 High Street) Right of way The Occupier 178A High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ (in respect of 178A High Street) Right of way The Occupier Flat 1 178 High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL (in respect of Flat 1 178 High Street) Right of way CPO Schedule V2 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address 101 Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) 193 Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired The Occupier Flat 2 178 High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL (in respect of Flat 2 178 High Street) Right of way The Body Shop International plc Watersmead Littlehampton BN17 6LS (in respect of 180 High Street) Right of way Kentucky Fried Chicken (Great Britain) Limited Orion Gate Guildford Road Woking GU22 7NJ (in respect of 182 High Street) Right of way Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim The Optical Shop (Hounslow) Limited Right of way Unit 3 The Elmsleigh Centre High Street Staines TW18 4QB (in respect of 186 High Street) CPO Schedule V2 102 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) 194 Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired SJR Retail LLP 5th Floor 94-96 Wigmore Street London W1U 3RF (in respect of 188, 188a, 188b High Street) Right of way Deichmann-Shoes UK Limited The Laurels 18 Main Street Lubenham Market Harborough LE16 9TF (in respect of 188-188a High Street) Right of way Bank of Scotland plc The Mound Edinburgh EH1 1YZ (in respect of 188b High Street) Right of way The Carphone Warehouse Limited 1 Portal Way London W3 6RS (in respect of 188b High Street) Right of way CPO Schedule V2 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address 103 Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) 195 Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Taxtone Limited 48 Riverside Walk Isleworth TW7 6HP (in respect of 190 High Street) Right of way Talk Talk Mobile Phones Limited 1351 Yardley Wood Road Shirley Solihull B90 1JU (in respect of 190 High Street) Right of way Steven Sharpe Kenwood House Kenwood Close London NW3 7JL (in respect of 192 High Street) Right of way Gavin Mark Sharpe Kenwood House Kenwood Close London NW3 7JL (in respect of 192 High Street) Right of way CPO Schedule V2 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address 104 Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) 196 Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired RAL Limited Birch House Woodlands Business Park Linford Wood Milton Keynes MK14 6EW (in respect of 192 High Street) Right of way Talarius Limited Birch House Woodlands Business Park Linford Wood Milton Keynes MK14 6EW (trading as Quicksilver Amusements) (in respect of 192 High Street) Right of way Bridge Estates Limited First Floor 10 College Road Harrow HA1 1BE (in respect of 194 High Street) Right of way Finechance Limited 194 High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL (in respect of 194 High Street) Right of way CPO Schedule V2 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address 105 Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) 197 Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Moda Italiana 194 High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL (in respect of 194 High Street) Right of way The Occupier 194A High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL (in respect of 194 High Street) Right of way Stephanie Small 194B High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL (in respect of 194 High Street) Right of way Daniel Shearman 194B High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL (in respect of 194 High Street) Right of way Archer Kane Homes Limited 41 Butts Hill Road Woodly Reading RG5 4NJ (in respect of 196 High Street) Right of way CPO Schedule V2 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address 106 Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) 198 Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Ealing Properties Limited c/o Sawhney Consulting No 1 Olympic Way London HA9 0NP (in respect of 196 High Street) Right of way Howard Scott Limited 44 High Street Chesham HP5 1EP (in respect of 196 High Street) Right of way JS Pound 196 High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL (in respect of 196 High Street) Right of way Lawford Properties Limited c/o Batt Holden Solicitors The Old Exchange 12 Compton Road Wimbledon London SW19 7QD (in respect of 198 High Street) Right of way Leaseholders of car parking spaces Right of way CPO Schedule V2 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address 107 Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) 25 Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) 199 Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired BDW Trading Limited Barratt House Cartwright Way Forest Business Park Bardon Hill Coalville LE67 1UF Unilateral Notice in respect of a contract relating to parking rights dated 17 April 2002 Blenheim Trading Limited 1 Knightsbridge 3rd Floor London SW1X 7LX Option to sell contained in a Call Option Agreement dated 14 June 2010 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim _ _ Bank of Scotland plc Mortgage dated 14 December 2012 The Mound Edinburgh EH1 1YZ and Halifax Division 1 Lovell Park Road Leeds LS1 1NS (as mortgagee of a registered charge on leasehold title number AGL274090) (mortgagor Nitin Prabhakar Watwe) CPO Schedule V2 108 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Description of Interest to be acquired Asda Stores Limited Asda House South Bank Great Wilson Street Leeds LS11 5AD (in respect of basement car park) Right of way 26 Asda Stores Limited Asda House South Bank Great Wilson Street Leeds LS11 5AD (in respect of basement car park) Right of way 27 Rights for The Blenheim Centre over the private road - Extent of Designated Highway to be ascertained 28 Legal and General Assurance Society Limited 1 Coleman Street London EC2R 5AA 29 _ 200 Name and address CPO Schedule V2 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim _ _ Restriction; no disposition of the Unknown successors in title to Arthur Unknown restrictive covenants registered estate is to be registered Edward Fricker referred to in Conveyance dated 15 without a certificate that the provisions June 1877 of clause 5 of a Deed of Covenant dated 14 June 2010 have been complied with _ _ 109 _ 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Description of Interest to be acquired 30 Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills 1 Victoria Street London SW1H 0ET Floating charge dated 19 March 2007 31 Legal and General Assurance Society Limited 1 Coleman Street London EC2R 5AA Restriction; no disposition of the Unknown successors in title to Arthur registered estate is to be registered Edward Fricker without a certificate that the provisions of clause 5 of a Deed of Covenant dated 14 June 2010 have been complied with Restrictive covenants relating to use of land known as 47 Holloway Street; not to carry on any trade or business; building line restrictions (Conveyance dated 29 June 1877) 32 Legal and General Assurance Society Limited 1 Coleman Street London EC2R 5AA Restriction; no disposition of the Unknown successors in title to Arthur registered estate is to be registered Edward Fricker without a certificate that the provisions of clause 5 of a Deed of Covenant dated 14 June 2010 have been complied with Restrictive covenants relating to use of land known as 45 Holloway Street; not to carry on any trade or business; building line restrictions (Conveyance dated 29 June 1877) 33 Legal and General Assurance Society Limited 1 Coleman Street London EC2R 5AA Restriction; no disposition of the Unknown successors in title to Arthur registered estate is to be registered Edward Fricker without a certificate that the provisions of clause 5 of a Deed of Covenant dated 14 June 2010 have been complied with Restrictive covenants relating to use of land known as 43 Holloway Street; not to carry on any trade or business; building line restrictions (Conveyance dated 15 June 1877 and 31 December 1879) 201 Name and address CPO Schedule V2 Name and address 110 Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim _ _ 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Unknown Restriction; except under an order of the registrar no disposition to be registered un less made in accordance with the Local Government Act 1933 or some other Act or authority 34 _ Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address _ Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Unknown successors in title to Arthur Restrictive covenants relating to use Edward Fricker of land known as 41 Holloway Street; not to carry on any trade or business; building line restrictions (Conveyance dated 15 June 1877) 202 Unknown successors in title to Wiliam Restrictive covenants relating to use Hayes of land known as 41 Holloway Street; not to carry on any trade or business; building line restrictions (31 December 1879) 35 _ _ Unknown successors in title to Arthur Restrictive covenants relating to use Edward Fricker of land known as 39 Holloway Street; not to carry on any trade or business; building line restrictions (Conveyance dated 15 June 1877) Unknown successors in title to Wiliam Restrictive covenants relating to use Hayes of land known as 39 Holloway Street; not to carry on any trade or business; building line restrictions (31 December 1879) CPO Schedule V2 111 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) 36 Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Legal and General Assurance Society Limited 1 Coleman Street London EC2R 5AA Restriction; no disposition of the Unknown successors in title to Arthur registered estate is to be registered Edward Fricker without a certificate that the provisions of clause 5 of a Deed of Covenant dated 14 June 2010 have been complied with Restrictive covenants relating to use of land known as 37 Holloway Street; not to carry on any trade or business; building line restrictions (Conveyance dated 15 June 1877) Unknown successors in title to Wiliam Restrictive covenants relating to use Hayes of land known as 37 Holloway Street; not to carry on any trade or business; building line restrictions (31 December 1879) 203 37 _ _ Unknown successors in title to Arthur Restrictive covenants relating to use Edward Fricker of land known as 35 Holloway Street; not to carry on any trade or business; building line restrictions (Conveyance dated 15 June 1877) Unknown successors in title to Wiliam Restrictive covenants relating to use Hayes of land known as 35 Holloway Street; not to carry on any trade or business; building line restrictions (31 December 1879) 38 _ _ 39 _ _ CPO Schedule V2 _ Unknown successors in title to Charles Edward Orridge 112 _ Restrictive covenants relating to use of land known as 33 Holloway Street; not to carry on any trade or business; building line restrictions (16 August 1879) 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) 204 Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired 40 Legal and General Assurance Society Limited 1 Coleman Street London EC2R 5AA Restriction; no disposition of the Unknown successors in title to registered estate is to be registered Charles Edward Orridge without a certificate that the provisions of clause 5 of a Deed of Covenant dated 14 June 2010 have been complied with 41 _ 42 Legal and General Assurance Society Limited 1 Coleman Street London EC2R 5AA CPO Schedule V2 Name and address _ Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Restrictive covenants relating to use of land known as 31 Holloway Street; not to carry on any trade or business; building line restrictions (16 August 1879) Unknown successors in title to Charles Edward Orridge Restrictive covenants relating to use of land known as 29 Holloway Street; not to carry on any trade or business; building line restrictions (16 August 1879) Restriction; no disposition of the Unknown successors in title to registered estate is to be registered Charles Edward Orridge without a certificate that the provisions of clause 5 of a Deed of Covenant dated 14 June 2010 have been complied with Restrictive covenants relating to use of land known as 27 Holloway Street; not to carry on any trade or business; building line restrictions (16 August 1879) 113 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address 43 Description of Interest to be acquired 205 Lloyds Bank plc Mortgage dated 21 February 2011 25 Gresham Street London EC2V 7HN and Pendeford Securities Centre Pendeford Business Park Wobaston Road Wolverhampton WV9 5HZ (as mortgagee of a registered charge on freehold title number NGL302188) (mortgagor Surinder Singh Sehajpal) 44 _ 45 Legal and General Assurance Society Limited 1 Coleman Street London EC2R 5AA CPO Schedule V2 _ Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Unknown successors in title to Charles Edward Orridge Restrictive covenants relating to use of land known as 27 Holloway Street; not to carry on any trade or business; building line restrictions (16 August 1879) Unknown successors in title to Arthur Restrictive covenants relating to use Edward Fricker of land known as 23 Holloway Street; not to carry on any trade or business; building line restrictions (Conveyance dated 05 May 1876) Restriction; no disposition of the Unknown successors in title to Arthur registered estate is to be registered Edward Fricker without a certificate that the provisions of clause 5 of a Deed of Covenant dated 14 June 2010 have been complied with 114 Restrictive covenants relating to use of land known as 21 Holloway Street; not to carry on any trade or business; building line restrictions (Conveyance dated 05 May 1876) 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address 46 Description of Interest to be acquired 206 _ _ 48 _ _ 49 Name and address Bank of Scotland plc Mortgage dated 15 August 2013 The Mound Edinburgh EH1 1YZ and Birmingham Midshires Division Pendeford Business Park Wobaston Road Wolverhampton WV9 5HZ (as mortgagee of a registered charge on freehold title number NGL303952) (mortgagor Badsha Miah) 47 Kate Ruth Smith 15 Holloway Street Hounslow TW3 1BD (in respect of 15 Holloway Street) CPO Schedule V2 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Unknown successors in title to Arthur Restrictive covenants relating to use Edward Fricker of land known as 19 Holloway Street; not to carry on any trade or business; building line restrictions (Conveyance dated 05 May 1876) Unknown successors in title to Arthur Restrictive covenants relating to use Edward Fricker of land known as 17 Holloway Street; not to carry on any trade or business; building line restrictions (Conveyance dated 05 May 1876) _ Right of way _ Unknown successors in title to Arthur Restrictive covenants relating to use Edward Fricker of land known as 13 Holloway Street; not to carry on any trade or business; building line restrictions (Conveyance dated 05 May 1876) 115 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address 50 Description of Interest to be acquired Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address 207 Barclays Bank plc Mortgage dated 09 August 2004 1 Churchill Place London E14 5HP and PO Box 274 Millshaw Court Global Avenue Leeds LS11 1FR (trading as The Woolwich) (as mortgagee of a registered charge on freehold title number NGL2641) (mortgagor Narinder Kaur Tamber and Manjit Singh Tamber) Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Unknown successors in title to Arthur Restrictive covenants relating to use Edward Fricker of land known as 11 Holloway Street; not to carry on any trade or business; building line restrictions (Conveyance dated 01 November 1875) 51 _ _ _ _ 52 _ _ _ _ 53 _ _ _ _ 54 _ _ _ _ 55 Not allocated 56 Not allocated CPO Schedule V2 116 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address 208 57 Not allocated 58 Barclays Bank plc Mortgage dated 13 August 2012 1 Churchill Place London E14 5HP and Business Lending Services PO Box 16276 Birmingham B2 2XE (as mortgagee of a registered charge on freehold title number NGL226226) (mortgagor Dimple's Beauty Limited) Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim _ _ Lloyds Bank plc Mortgage dated 17 January 1989 25 Gresham Street London EC2V 7HN (as mortgagee of a registered charge on leasehold title number NGL229643) (mortgagor Peter John Roper) CPO Schedule V2 117 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim State Bank of India Mortgage dated 19 June 2009 15 King Street London EC2V 8EA (as mortgagee of a registered charge on freehold title number MX172505) (mortgagor Jagjit Singh Nanda, Jaskaran Singh Purewal, Kunwar Ajit Singh and Josh Ajit Singh Arora) _ _ 60 Nationwide Building Society Mortgage dated 25 April 2008 Nationwide House Pipers Way Swindon SN38 1NW and One Threadneedle Street London EC2R 8AW (as mortgagee of a registered charge on freehold title number MX156733) (mortgagor Aurelia Properties Limited) _ _ 209 59 CPO Schedule V2 118 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Nationwide Building Society Mortgage dated 17 April 2003 Nationwide House Pipers Way Swindon SN38 1NW and One Threadneedle Street London EC2R 8AW (as mortgagee of a registered charge on freehold title number MX341859) (mortgagor Toplain Limited) _ _ 62 Santander UK plc Mortgage dated 27 June 2014 2 Triton Square Regents Place London NW1 3AN (as mortgagee of a registered charge on freehold title number MX340238) (mortgagor SJR Retail LLP - charge reference NT444699) _ _ 210 61 CPO Schedule V2 119 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Bank of Ireland Mortgage dated 09 November 2001 40 Mepsil Road Dublin 4 (as mortgagee of a registered charge on freehold title number MX65721) (mortgagor Taxtone Limited) _ _ 64 HSBC Private Bank (UK) Limited Mortgage dated 01 July 1997 8 Canada Square London E14 5HQ and 78 St James's Street London SW1A 1JB (as mortgagee of a registered charge on freehold title number MX214356) (mortgagor Steven Sharpe and Gavin Mark Sharpe) _ _ 65 Nationwide Building Society Mortgage dated 09 September 1999 Nationwide House Pipers Way Swindon SN38 1NW (as mortgagee of a registered charge on freehold title number NGL261851) (mortgagor Bridge Estates Limited) _ _ _ _ 211 63 66 CPO Schedule V2 _ _ 120 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim 212 67 _ _ _ _ 68 _ _ _ _ 69 _ _ _ _ 70 _ _ _ _ 71 _ _ _ _ 71A _ _ _ _ 72 _ _ _ _ 72A _ _ _ _ 73 _ _ _ _ 74 _ _ _ _ 75 _ _ _ _ 76 _ _ _ _ Plot 24? _ _ CPO Schedule V2 Ricco Pakkiri 19 Lampton Park Road Hounslow TW3 4HS 121 Potential right of light in respect of Unit 7 Red Lion Court, Alexandra Road, Hounslow 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired 213 CPO Schedule V2 122 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Cherry Hill School Trust Limited 66 Violet Avenue Hillingdon UB8 3PS Potential right of light in respect of Unit 7 Red Lion Court, Alexandra Road, Hounslow 003 Limited Neals Corner Suite 16 2 Bath Road Hounslow TW3 3HJ Potential right of light in respect of Unit 7 Red Lion Court, Alexandra Road, Hounslow Seema Parikh The Firs 11A Woodbury Close Croydon CR0 5PR Potential right of light in respect of Unit 8 Red Lion Court, Alexandra Road, Hounslow MPR Solicitors LLP Unit 8 Red Lion Court Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1JS Potential right of light in respect of Unit 8 Red Lion Court, Alexandra Road, Hounslow The Aesthetics Beauty Clinic Unit 8 Red Lion Court Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1JS Potential right of light in respect of Unit 8 Red Lion Court, Alexandra Road, Hounslow 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired 214 CPO Schedule V2 123 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Shella Deen Autumn Lodge Hurtmore Road Hurtmore Godalming GU7 2RB Potential right of light in respect of Unit 9 Red Lion Court, Alexandra Road, Hounslow Burnel & Co Unit 9 Red Lion Court Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1JS Potential right of light in respect of Unit 9 Red Lion Court, Alexandra Road, Hounslow New Imperial College Limited Unit 9 Red Lion Court Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1JS Potential right of light in respect of Unit 9 Red Lion Court, Alexandra Road, Hounslow Humble Healthcare Limited Unit 9 Red Lion Court Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1JS Potential right of light in respect of Unit 9 Red Lion Court, Alexandra Road, Hounslow 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired 215 CPO Schedule V2 124 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Pandastar Limited 5 Trinity 161 Old Christchurch Road Bournemouth BH1 1JU (trading as National Slimming Centres) Potential right of light in respect of Unit 9 Red Lion Court, Alexandra Road, Hounslow Luisa Burnel 33 Layburn Crescent Colnbrook SL3 8QL Potential right of light in respect of Unit 9 Red Lion Court, Alexandra Road, Hounslow Holding & Management (Solitaire) Limited 10 Pollen House Cork Street London W1S 3NP Potential right of light in respect of Alexandra House, Balfour Road, Hounslow Sabena Alam Flat 1 2b Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1LX Potential right of light in respect of Flat 1, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Manpreet Singh Pooni 30 Firs Drive Hounslow TW5 9TD Potential right of light in respect of Flat 2, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired 216 CPO Schedule V2 125 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Gary Matthews Flat 2 2b Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1LX Potential right of light in respect of Flat 2, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Josephine Dixon Flat 2 2b Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1LX Potential right of light in respect of Flat 2, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Sham Loomba 182 Spring Grove Road Isleworth TW7 4BG Potential right of light in respect of Flat 3, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow The Occupier Flat 3 2b Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1LX Potential right of light in respect of Flat 3, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Julieta Asuncion Flat 4 2b Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1LX Potential right of light in respect of Flat 4, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired 217 CPO Schedule V2 126 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Avinash Alexander Devasundaram 6 Richmond Hill Court Richmond TW10 6BD Potential right of light in respect of Flat 5, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Nithya Mary Devasundaram 6 Richmond Hill Court Richmond TW10 6BD Potential right of light in respect of Flat 5, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Satya Prasad Anumolu Flat 5 2b Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1LX Potential right of light in respect of Flat 5, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Bharata Lakshmi Donelli Flat 5 2b Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1LX Potential right of light in respect of Flat 5, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Michelle Louise Charles Flat 6 2b Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 4HN Potential right of light in respect of Flat 6, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Sheilender Kumar Pathak 1 Fielding Gardens Langley SL3 7ED Potential right of light in respect of Flat 7, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired 218 CPO Schedule V2 127 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Sudhinder Kumar Pathak 14 Parsons Road Langley SL3 7GU Potential right of light in respect of Flat 7, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Annabella Pathak 1 Fielding Gardens Langley SL3 7ED Potential right of light in respect of Flat 7, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Mamta Pathak 14 Parsons Road Langley SL3 7GU Potential right of light in respect of Flat 7, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Sirajudeen Musthafa Flat 7 2b Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1LX Potential right of light in respect of Flat 7, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Pheresapriya Musthafa Flat 7 2b Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1LX Potential right of light in respect of Flat 7, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Srinivas Rao Movva Flat 8 2b Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1LX Potential right of light in respect of Flat 8, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired 219 CPO Schedule V2 128 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Soumya Jasthi Flat 8 2b Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1LX Potential right of light in respect of Flat 8, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Anjna Loomba 57 Draper Close Isleworth TW7 4SX Potential right of light in respect of Flat 8, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Harjinder Bangar Flat 9 2b Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1LX Potential right of light in respect of Flat 9, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Mandeep Singh Walia 3 Moreton Avenue Isleworth TW7 4NW Potential right of light in respect of Flat 10, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Rasneet Choudhary 3 Moreton Avenue Isleworth TW7 4NW Potential right of light in respect of Flat 10, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired 220 CPO Schedule V2 129 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Vikas Doshi Flat 10 2b Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1LJ Potential right of light in respect of Flat 10, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Shika Mehta Flat 10 2b Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1LJ Potential right of light in respect of Flat 10, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Ruchir Verma Flat 11 2b Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1LX Potential right of light in respect of Flat 11, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Rashmi Nigam Flat 11 2b Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1LX Potential right of light in respect of Flat 11, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Simon Douglas Mamic Flat 12 2b Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1LX Potential right of light in respect of Flat 12, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired 221 CPO Schedule V2 130 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Rina Devi Shah 10 Granville Avenue Hounslow TW3 3TF Potential right of light in respect of Flat 13, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Abhijit Ramchandra Pathak Flat 13 2b Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1LX Potential right of light in respect of Flat 13, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Ivy Pathak Flat 13 2b Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1LX Potential right of light in respect of Flat 13, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Bibek Kumar Shrestha Flat 14 2b Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1LX Potential right of light in respect of Flat 14, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Anjita Panday Flat 14 2b Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1LX Potential right of light in respect of Flat 14, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired 222 CPO Schedule V2 131 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Meeri Hilkka Anneli Raukovaara Flat 15 2b Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1LX Potential right of light in respect of Flat 15, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Karen Lorraine Lucas Flat 16 2b Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1LX Potential right of light in respect of Flat 16, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Abdul Rashid Khan Harefield Ditten Road Slough SL3 8PR Potential right of light in respect of Flat 17, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Nitin Sahni Flat 17 2b Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1LX Potential right of light in respect of Flat 17, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow Aarati Gupta Flat 17 2b Alexandra Road Hounslow TW3 1LX Potential right of light in respect of Flat 17, 2b Alexandra Road, Hounslow 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired 223 CPO Schedule V2 132 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Velji Jinabhai Ladva 27 Lansdowne Road Hounslow TW3 1LQ Potential right of light in respect of 27 Lansdowne Road, Hounslow Latta Velji Ladva 27 Lansdowne Road Hounslow TW3 1LQ Potential right of light in respect of 27 Lansdowne Road, Hounslow Meera Velji Ladva 27 Lansdowne Road Hounslow TW3 1LQ Potential right of light in respect of 27 Lansdowne Road, Hounslow Mahavir Vlji Ladva 27 Lansdowne Road Hounslow TW3 1LQ Potential right of light in respect of 27 Lansdowne Road, Hounslow Kapil Dev Garga 37 Berwick Avenue Hayes UB4 0NG Potential right of light in respect of 25 Lansdowne Road, Hounslow Naresh Garga 37 Berwick Avenue Hayes UB4 0NG Potential right of light in respect of 25 Lansdowne Road, Hounslow 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired 224 CPO Schedule V2 133 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim The Occupier 25 Lansdowne Road Hounslow TW3 1LQ Potential right of light in respect of 25 Lansdowne Road, Hounslow Jawahir Kirit Toprani 23 Lansdowne Road Hounslow TW3 1LQ Potential right of light in respect of 23 Lansdowne Road, Hounslow Khyati Jawahir Toprani 23 Lansdowne Road Hounslow TW3 1LQ Potential right of light in respect of 23 Lansdowne Road, Hounslow Sherrygold No 1. Limited Jubilee House 7-9 The Oaks Ruislip HA4 7LF Potential right of light in respect of 160 High Street, Hounslow National Westminster Bank plc 135 Bishopsgate London EC2M 3UR and Drummond House PO Box 1727 1 Redhenghs Avenue Edinburgh EH12 9JN Potential right of light in respect of 160 High Street, Hounslow 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired 225 CPO Schedule V2 134 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Dimple's Beauty Limited c/o SRV Delson Amba House 2nd Floor Delson Suite 15 College Road Harrow HA1 1BA Potential right of light in respect of 162b High Street, Hounslow Thakers Food Limited 14 Avondale Gardens Hounslow TW4 5HZ Potential right of light in respect of 162b High Street, Hounslow Jagjit Singh Nanda Pure Life Unit 4 Triangle Centre 399 Uxbridge Road Southall UB1 3EJ Potential right of light in respect of 170 High Street, Hounslow Jaskaran Singh Purewal Pure Life Unit 4 Triangle Centre 399 Uxbridge Road Southall UB1 3EJ Potential right of light in respect of 170 High Street, Hounslow 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired 226 CPO Schedule V2 135 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Kunwar Ajit Singh Pure Life Unit 4 Triangle Centre 399 Uxbridge Road Southall UB1 3EJ Potential right of light in respect of 170 High Street, Hounslow Josh Ajit Singh Arora Pure Life Unit 4 Triangle Centre 399 Uxbridge Road Southall UB1 3EJ Potential right of light in respect of 170 High Street, Hounslow Eva Fashions 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ Potential right of light in respect of 170 High Street, Hounslow The Occupier Flat 1 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ Potential right of light in respect of 170 High Street, Hounslow Cleofe Albano Flat 2 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ Potential right of light in respect of 170 High Street, Hounslow 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired 227 CPO Schedule V2 136 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Daniel Donovan Flat 2 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ Potential right of light in respect of 170 High Street, Hounslow Amruta Save Flat 3 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ Potential right of light in respect of 170 High Street, Hounslow Nirmal Save Flat 3 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ Potential right of light in respect of 170 High Street, Hounslow The Occupier Flat 4 170 High Street Hounslow TW3 1BQ Potential right of light in respect of 170 High Street, Hounslow Aurelia Properties Limited Foret Windmill Park Wrotham Heath TN15 7SY Potential right of light in respect of 172 High Street, Hounslow Trespass Europe Limited Vermont House 149 Vermont Street Kinning Park Glasgow G41 1LU Potential right of light in respect of 172 High Street, Hounslow 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) 228 Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Toplain Limited 13 Peel Road Douglas Isle of Man IM1 4LR Potential right of light in respect of 182186 High Street, Hounslow Kentucky Fried Chicken (Great Britain) Limited Orion Gate Guildford Road Woking GU22 7NJ Potential right of light in respect of 182184 High Street, Hounslow The Optical Shop (Hounslow) Limited Potential right of light in respect of 186 Unit 3 High Street, Hounslow The Elmsleigh Centre High Street Staines TW18 4QB SJR Retail LLP 5th Floor 94-96 Wigmore Street London W1U 3RF CPO Schedule V2 137 Potential right of light in respect of 188 High Street, Hounslow 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired 229 CPO Schedule V2 138 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Deichmann-Shoes UK Limited The Laurels 18 Main Street Lubenham Market Harborough LE16 9TF Potential right of light in respect of 188188a High Street, Hounslow Bank of Scotland plc The Mound Edinburgh EH1 1YZ Potential right of light in respect of 188b High Street, Hounslow The Carphone Warehouse Limited 1 Portal Way London W3 6RS Potential right of light in respect of 188b High Street, Hounslow Taxtone Limited 48 Riverside Walk Isleworth TW7 6HP Potential right of light in respect of 190 High Street, Hounslow Talk Talk Mobile Phones Limited 1351 Yardley Wood Road Shirley Solihull B90 1JU Potential right of light in respect of 190 High Street, Hounslow 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired 230 CPO Schedule V2 139 Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Bridge Estates Limited First Floor 10 College Road Harrow HA1 1BE Potential right of light in respect of 194 High Street, Hounslow Finechance Limited 194 High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL Potential right of light in respect of 194 High Street, Hounslow Moda Italiana 194 High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL Potential right of light in respect of 194 High Street, Hounslow The Occupier 194A High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL Potential right of light in respect of 194A High Street, Hounslow Stephanie Small 194B High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL Potential right of light in respect of 194B High Street, Hounslow 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Daniel Shearman 194B High Street Hounslow TW3 1HL (in respect of parking) Potential right of light in respect of 194B High Street, Hounslow Royal Mail Estates Limited 100 Victoria Embankment London EC4Y 0HQ Potential right of light in respect of 9 Holloway Street, Hounslow Sorting Office and Hounslow Telephone Exchange, Hounslow British Telecommunications plc 81 Newgate Street London EC1A 7AJ Potential right of light in respect of Hounslow Telephone Exchange Autumnwindow Limited 81 Newgate Street London EC1A 7AJ Potential right of light in respect of Hounslow Telephone Exchange 231 Name and address CPO Schedule V2 140 04/02/2015 Number on Map (4) Other qualifying persons under section 12(2A)(a) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (5) Name and address Description of Interest to be acquired Other qualifying persons under section12(2A)(b) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - not otherwise shown in Tables 1 & 2 (6) Name and address Description of the land for which the person in adjoining column is likely to make a claim Autumnwindow No. 2 Limited 81 Newgate Street London EC1A 7AJ Potential right of light in respect of Hounslow Telephone Exchange 232 THE COMMON SEAL OF LONDON BOROUGH OF COUNCIL OF HOUNSLOW was hereunto affixed this day of 2015 in the presence of :- …………………………………………....................... A duly authorised Officer CPO Schedule V2 141 04/02/2015 233 Agenda Item 7 Report for: ACTION Contains Confidential or Exempt Information No Title Appointment of Interim Head of Legal and Monitoring Officer Councillor Curran, Leader of the Council Mary Harpley Tel: 020 8583 2010 [email protected] Borough Council 24 March 2015 N/A Member Reporting Contact Details For Consideration By Date to be Considered Implementation Date if Not Called In Affected Wards Keywords/Index 1. All Monitoring Officer, appointment, interim, shared service Details of Recommendations That Borough Council 1. Approves the interim appointment of Caroline Eaton as Head of Legal and Monitoring Officer to the Council with effect from 25 March 2015 2. Authorises the amendment of the constitution so as to remove all references within it to the Assistant Director Corporate Governance by substituting these with the Head of Legal and Monitoring Officer. If the recommendations are adopted, how will residents benefit? Benefits to residents and reasons why they will Dates by which they can benefit, link to Values expect to notice a difference The Monitoring Officer is a statutory role and which On-going requires the post holder to act with the utmost integrity and probity. The role enhances the overall reputation of the Council. 2. Report Summary 1. The purpose of this report is to seek the necessary approval to appoint an Interim Head of Legal and Monitoring Officer following the deletion of the post of Assistant Director of Corporate Governance on the retirement of the current post holder, with effect from 25 March 2015. 2. It is a statutory requirement under section 5 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (as amended) to appoint a Monitoring Officer to the 234 Council. 3. An offer of employment as a chief officer or deputy chief officer shall only be made where no well-founded objection from any member of the Cabinet has been received. That process having been duly followed, Caroline Eaton has been offered and has accepted the interim role of Head of Legal and Monitoring Officer. 4. We are in the process of transferring the legal service to HB Public Law, a shared legal service previously established by Harrow and Barnet Councils. This is planned to be completed on 1st June 2015, but this Council will retain its own legally-qualified Monitoring Officer. Recruitment to this permanent position will start shortly. The Interim Head of Legal and Monitoring Officer will remain in post after 1 June 2015 until the permanent arrangements are in place. 5. This report also seeks authority to amend the constitution to remove all references to the Assistant Director Corporate Governance and to substitute these with the Head of Legal and Monitoring Officer. 3. Reason for Decision and Options Considered 3.1 Under section 5 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (as amended), the Council has a duty to appoint a Monitoring Officer. 3.2 The Monitoring Officer has a number of statutory duties and responsibilities relating to the Council’s Constitution and the arrangements for effective governance. These duties include maintaining the Constitution, ensuring that no decision or omission of the Council is likely to give rise to illegality or maladministration and promoting high standards of conduct. A full list of the Monitoring Officer’s responsibilities and delegated powers is included within the Council’s Constitution. 3.3 Neither the Head of Paid Service nor the Chief Finance Officer can hold the position of Monitoring Officer. Although it is not a specific requirement for a Monitoring Officer to be legally qualified, the council has chosen to appoint Caroline Eaton who is an experienced local government solicitor and who has deputised for the retiring Monitoring Officer, the Assistant Director of Corporate Governance on a number of occasions. 3.4 To enable the Head of Legal and Monitoring Officer to carry out her role as the Council’s most senior solicitor, the constitution will require amendment to remove all references to the Assistant Director Corporate Governance and replace these with the Head of Legal and Monitoring Officer. This is particularly important in respect of legal proceedings, the sealing and authentication of documents and the Code of Conduct. 3.5 Work done by the Monitoring Officer who will remain a Hounslow employee is excluded from the service to be provided by HB Public Law from 1st June. A further report will be required in respect of the arrangements for the shared service and the delegation of legal services functions. 235 4. Key Implications As set out above. 5. Comments of the Assistant Director Strategic Finance The cost of the post of Head of Legal and Monitoring Officer will be funded from within the Council’s revenue budget for legal services. 6. Legal/Comments of the Assistant Director Corporate Governance As set out in main body of the report. 7. Value For Money N/A 8. Sustainability Impact Appraisal N/A 9. Risk Management N/A 10. Links to Council Priorities An ambitious council delivering quality services and value for money. This particularly relevant in respect of the overall management and performance of the legal shared service. 11. Equalities, Human Rights and Community Cohesion In making any decision the Council is required to have due regard to its equalities duties and in particular section 149 of the Equality Act 2010, to eliminate discrimination, harassment, victimisation and eliminate any other conduct that is prohibited by or under the Act, advance equality of opportunity between persons who share a protected characteristic and persons who do not share it and to foster good relations between persons who share a relevant protected characteristic and persons who do not share it. The decisions in paragraph 1 will not have any adverse impact on anyone with one or more protected characteristics, namely age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. 12. Staffing/Workforce and Accommodation implications: The interim Head Monitoring Officer will report to the Council from time to time on the staff, accommodation and resources required to discharge her functions. Where the Monitoring Officer requires specialist advice on any matter concerning her statutory responsibilities she will be able to seek Counsel’s Opinion and will have a budget to 236 enable her to do so. The Council will also provide such support from its own resources, including but not limited to legal and procedural advice 13. Property and Assets N/A 14. Any Other Implications None 15. Consultation N/A 16. Timetable for Implementation N/A 17. Appendices None 18. Background Information None REPORT ENDS 237 Agenda Item 8 Report for: ACTION Contains Confidential or Exempt Information Title Member Reporting Contact Details For Consideration By Date to be Considered Implementation Date if Not Called In Affected Wards Keywords/Index 1.0 No CEX053 Establishing a Hounslow Pension Board Councillor Theo Dennison, Lead Member Finance and Citizen Engagement Mary Harpley, Chief Executive Telephone: 020 8583 2310 Email: [email protected] Borough Council 24 March 2015 1st April 2015 All Pension Fund Details of Recommendations That the Council approve the establishment of the Local Pension Board, its composition, and its terms of reference. 2.0 Report Summary This report outlines the proposed changes to the structure and governance arrangements of Local Government Pension Schemes (LGPS) brought about by the Public Service Pensions Act 2013 and associated Regulations. Final regulations have been issued by DCLG (Department of Communities and Local Government), and guidance has been issued by the national Shadow Scheme Advisory Board. This paper is based on the regulations and guidance as they impact directly on Hounslow. Local administering authorities are required to establish Pension Boards by 1st April 2015. Terms of Reference for the proposed Pension Board for Hounslow, including a proposal for an Appointments Panel to select the members of the Pension Board, are the subject of this report. 3.0 Reason for Decision 238 3.1 Following the Independent Public Service Pensions Committee report of 2011, the Public Service Pensions Act 2013 gave powers to the Secretary of State to introduce a number of far reaching changes to the administration of the LGPS. These included:a new local government pension scheme which has been effective since 1 April 2014; and Local Government Pension Fund administering authorities are required to establish Pension Boards by 1st April 2015. 4. Background 4.1 Over the past few years there have been major changes proposed by Government to the way Local Authority Pensions Funds are to be managed and pensions delivered to beneficiaries. This has been set against the background of rising costs associated with increasing longevity and a concern about the balance of cost sharing between taxpayer and beneficiaries. Major reforms have already been implemented in the administration of pensions, as has the introduction of a career average earnings scheme. Proposals to improve investment performance are currently the subject of a separate consultation process. Proposals to improve scheme governance have also been issued and are the subject of this report. 4.2 The genesis of these changes was the “Hutton Report”. Government commissioned Lord Hutton to chair the Independent Public Service Pensions Commission to review public service pensions and to make recommendations on how they can be made sustainable and affordable in the long term, and fair to both public sector workers and the taxpayer. The recommendations made by Lord Hutton were accepted by the Government and were carried forward into the Public Service Pensions Act 2013 (“the 2013 Act”). 4.3 A key aim of the reform process is to raise the standard of management and administration of public service pension schemes and to achieve more effective representation of employer and employee interests in that process. 4.4 The Public Service Pensions Act 2013 included two main provisions to achieve this policy objective. Firstly, a requirement for responsible authorities such as the DCLG (Department of Communities and Local Government) to establish at national level Scheme Advisory Boards with responsibility to provide advice to relevant Departments on the desirability of changes to their respective schemes. Secondly, in cases where schemes like the Local Government Pension Scheme are subject to local administration, there is a requirement to provide for the establishment of local pension boards to assist administering authorities with the effective and efficient management and administration of their schemes. 4.5 This report sets out how these governance changes will impact on the arrangements for managing the London Borough of Hounslow Pension Fund. 5.0 Current Arrangements 5.1 The current arrangements for the management of the Pension Fund have been in place for a considerable period of time and in line with the practice across most London Boroughs. The London Borough of Hounslow (LBH) is 239 the administering authority for the Pension Fund, for the Council itself and a number of scheduled and admitted bodies. The Fund itself has now grown to £750m, with 19,000 members, and 40 employers. 5.2 The Council has delegated the management of the Fund to the Pension Fund Panel comprising five Councillors (representing the political balance of the authority), one employer representative, one employee representative, and one retired staff member. 5.3 The Terms of Reference of the Pension Fund Panel, as agreed by Borough Council, are:a. To consider on the advice of the S151 Officer and Council‟s Fund Managers, the Council‟s general policy with regard to Pension Fund Investments; b. To make arrangements for the management of the Fund in line with the Statement of Investment Principles; c. To monitor the performance of the Fund and its Managers; d. To exercise the Council‟s voting rights at AGM‟s and EGM‟s of companies in which the Fund has holdings, after considering the advice of the S151 Officer and appropriate Manager (s); and e. To overview and agree pension fund administration matters e.g. approval of Administration Strategy and delivery of the benefits service. 6.0 New Proposals 6.1 The proposals issued by the Government introduce new duties and responsibilities on local authorities. The proposals are designed to improve and strengthen fund governance and decision making and reflect the arrangements in place for large corporate schemes. There are three aspects:a) at national level a Scheme Advisory Board will be established to advise the Secretary of State on the desirability of making changes to the LGPS (Local Government Pension Scheme), and to administering authorities on the administration and management of the scheme. The Chair and the members (up to 12) will be appointed by the Secretary of State; b) at local level local Pension Boards must be established to “assist” the local administering authority to secure compliance with LGPS regulations, and generally to ensure the efficient and effective governance of the LGPS; c) the new arrangements also introduce a role for the Pensions Regulator for the explicit regulatory oversight of pension schemes. The role will be to issue Codes of Practice on the governance, standards of conduct and general practices expected of local government pension schemes. To date the Regulator has said that their role will be to educate and enable, and will only enforce action in extreme cases when authorities disregard statutory requirements. Nonetheless, this does introduce a fresh regulatory dimension for local authorities to take into account in future. 240 6.2 Final regulations have now been issued by DCLG, and guidance has been issued by the Shadow Scheme Advisory Board. The proposals in this paper are based on the Regulations and Guidance. 7.0 The Scheme Manager is the Administering Authority 7.1 The 2013 Act requires local authority funds to have a scheme manager. The scheme manager is the administering authority for the Fund, and hence will be Hounslow Council. The Council will still have overall responsibility for the management of the Pension Fund and scheme. The creation of new local Pension Boards does not change the core role of the Administering Authority. However, this will in future be subject to the new Governance framework. 8.0 Proposal for the Hounslow Pension Board Role of the Pension Board 8.1 The requirement to establish a local Pension Board represents a major change to the governance arrangements locally for Pension Fund management and administration. Section 5 of the 2013 Public Service Pensions Act requires that each Scheme Manager is advised and assisted by a Pension Board in relation to specified matters. The role of the Pension Board is to assist the Administering Authority. Hence the appointment of its members should be a function undertaken by the Administering Authority, rather than the Pension Fund Panel. 8.2 The Regulations give more detail as to these matters. Regulation 106 specifies that the Pension Boards will assist the Administering Authority to secure compliance with:the Regulations; and with other legislation relating to the governance and administration of the LGPS; and with any requirements imposed by the Regulator in relation to the LGPS; and to ensure the effective and efficient governance and administration of the LGPS. Assisting the Administering Authority should be interpreted as helping the Administering Authority, including doing work as requested by the Administering Authority. However, the Pension Board does not replace the Administering Authority or make decisions which are the responsibility of the Administering Authority. The Board is not a decision making body, but assists the Council in ensuring compliance with relevant legislation. Its role is that of compliance. Implementation Date 8.3 Regulation 106 states that the Pension Board must be established no later than 1st April 2015. Established means that the Administering Authority must have approved the establishment of the local Pension Board, and its composition, and also its Terms of Reference. It does not mean that the Board 241 has to be fully operational by this date. However, it is anticipated that the Pension Board should be operational, i.e. should have had its membership appointed and have had its first meeting, by 1st August 2015. Membership and eligibility of Hounslow Pension Board 8.4 The Pension Board must consist of an equal number of employer and member representatives with a minimum number of four in total. The regulations also propose that in addition to any member and employer representatives, pension boards can also appoint “others” to sit provided the number of these “others” does not exceed the total number of employer and member representatives. The final regulations have been amended in respect of elected members sitting on the pension board. The original proposal was that elected councillors could not sit as an employer or a member representative. However, the final regulations permit elected members to sit on the Pension Board providing they are not Members of the Pension Fund Panel itself. Elected councillors can also sit on the Board as “others” as part of the overall Board membership. It is also proposed that scheme member representatives cannot sit on both the Panel and the Board, but can only sit on one. 8.5 It is suggested that at this stage the new Pension Board shall consist of 4 members and be constituted as follows: 1) Two employer representatives, one of which to be the London Borough Hounslow, the largest employer; 2) Two scheme member representatives. Member representatives in this context refer to members of the Pension Scheme i.e. active members, deferred members, or pensioner members. Such a group would meet the regulatory requirements of a minimum of 4. A smaller group will be easier to set up and will also be less costly than a larger group. 8.6 Any person to be appointed an employer or member representative must demonstrate the capacity to represent employer/member representatives. 8.7 Each employer representative and scheme member representative shall serve a fixed 4 year period to tie in with local elections. The first Pension Board will serve a 3 year term to May 2018. Appointment Process 8.8 Regulation 107 states that it is the Administering Authority that determines the membership of the Pension Board, and the manner in which members of the Pension Board are appointed, and removed. The Administering Authority must be satisfied that each employer and scheme representative „has relevant experience and the capacity to represent employers/members......‟ 8.9 It is proposed that an Appointments Panel should be set up to manage the appointments process, and decide which individuals should be appointed to the Pension Board. The Panel will consist of: 242 • the Lead Member for Finance • Head of Treasury, Pensions and Capital • Human Resources representative • the Assistant Director, Corporate Governance/Monitoring Officer • Staff Side Secretary 8.10 Section 5.14 of the guidance is quite clear on the importance of equality of opportunity. The guidance states „All employers and members within a Fund must have equal opportunity to be nominated for the role of employer or member representative through an open and transparent process‟. Hence the appointment process will be open to all scheme employers and all scheme members. To ensure equality of opportunity it is not proposed to limit staff membership to being a member of a trade union. Trade unions can of course nominate their members for joining the board through the selection process which will apply to everybody. 8.11 Employer representatives 1. The employer representative for Hounslow Council will be a councillor and will be selected, from applications, by the Appointment Panel. This Councillor cannot be a member of the Pension Fund Panel. 2. The other Employer Representative will be selected through nomination(s) from the employing bodies and appointment made by the Appointments Panel. 8.12 Scheme member representatives Membership may be any of the following categories: active, deferred or pensioner. Ideally there would be an active employee member and one retired member. Expressions of interest will be requested through electronic and written communications, as applicable, and then selected following an interview process. 8.13 The Assistant Director, Strategic Finance and Assistant Director, Corporate Governance will keep under review any further eligibility and/or selection criteria that will apply to Pension Board members having due regard to the LGPS Regulations and any other relevant Code of Practice and guidance (statutory or otherwise). 8.14 The process for selecting members of the Pension Board is as set out below. Step 1 – Fund employers will be invited to nominate individuals to represent employers on the Pension Board. Hounslow Councillors will be invited to apply to represent Hounslow Council as an employing body. Scheme members will be invited to nominate themselves or other scheme members to represent scheme members on the Pension Fund. Step 2 – The Appointments Panel can reject any nomination/application made where they consider the individual does not appropriately meet their eligibility and/or selection criteria. The Appointments Panel will determine who should be appointed as members of the Pension Board based on whatever process they consider appropriate, which may include but is not restricted to a formal interview. 243 Step 3 - Where Step 1 and 2 fails to appoint the four required members the Appointments Panel will take any other action they consider appropriate to appoint suitable Pension Board members. Accountability and reporting lines 8.15 The Pension Board will be formally responsible to Cabinet. A précis of the minutes will be reported to Cabinet after each meeting of the Board. In addition, the Board must provide minutes of each meeting to the following Pension Fund Panel copied to the Assistant Director, Strategic Finance, and may make reports and recommendations to the Pension Fund Panel insofar as they relate to the role of the Pension Board. Meetings 8.16 Meetings will be held twice a year and, like meetings of the Pension Fund Panel, will be open to the public, where applicable. Remuneration 8.17 It is proposed to pay expenses only. Terms of Reference 8.18 The detailed Terms of Reference give greater detail on the proposed operation of the Board, and are attached at Appendix 1. They set out in greater detail the powers, role and composition of the Board as already described and also consider further issues. Resourcing 8.19 The Pension Fund will be required to facilitate the operation of the new Board and this will require additional resources. The expenses associated with the setting up and running of the new Pension Board will be met from the Pension Fund as part of the costs of administering the scheme. Costs will cover:expenses for the members; training costs; and it is not proposed at this time to increase the staffing of the Fund but for the work to be absorbed within available resources. 8.20 The need for independent advice will be considered, once the Board is operational, if deemed to be necessary, to avoid conflicts of interest and/or to provide support to the Board. Any costs, which could be significant, would have to be met by the Pension Fund. 9.0 Joint Scheme Manager and Pension Boards 9.1 As discussed at the meeting of the Pension Fund Panel, in July the regulations provided for the creation of a joint scheme manager and pension board through one committee, which in practice could be the Pension Fund 244 Panel. Any such arrangement must be approved in writing by the Secretary of State and could be subject to conditions. However, to promote good governance, it is proposed that two bodies should be maintained as each has a separate and distinct role to discharge. There could be a particular difficulty with conflicts of interest arising from self–regulation i.e. the Pension Fund Panel cannot effectively scrutinise and review itself. For all these reasons it is proposed that a separate Pension Board be established. 10.0 Financial Details 10.1 The Pension Fund will be required to facilitate the operation of the new board and this will require additional resources. The cost will be met from the Fund‟s own resources and it is not proposed at this time to increase the staffing of the Fund but for the work to be absorbed within available resources. Comments of the Assistant Director, Strategic Finance 10.2 The comments of the Assistant Director, Strategic Finance are incorporated in the report. 10.3 The employer‟s contribution is a significant element of the Council‟s budget and consequently any improvement in investment performance will reduce the contribution and increase the funds available for other corporate priorities. 11.0 Legal Details 11.1 Regulations 106 to 109 make provision for each administering authority to establish a local pension board to assist it to comply with its legal obligations relating to its pension scheme. The regulations require the local pension board to be established by the 1st April 2015. 11.2. The proposed changes are brought about by legislative reform and so compliance with the new regulations is mandatory. Sanctions or other possible government intervention can be imposed on non-complying administrative authorities. 11.3. The Constitution does not provide the Pension Fund Panel with the power to create a Pension Board. Full Council will need to make the decision on the recommendation of the Pension Fund Panel. Comments of the Assistant Director, Corporate Governance 11.4 The Assistant Director, recommendations. 12.0 Corporate Governance supports the Risk Management 12.1 There are no major risks foreseen from the implementation of these regulations. The main challenges would be sourcing and training individuals to sit on the new Pension Board. 245 12.2 The rigorous robust management of LBH Pension Fund results in more effective decision making which can lead to better Fund performance and reduction in the contribution required from the Council towards the Fund. 13.0 Equalities, Human Rights and Community Cohesion 13.1 The Council has to give due regard to equality of opportunity under the Equality Act 2010. Section 39, Part 5 of the Equality Act 2010 is of particular relevance in this case as it requires recruitment to be free from discrimination. Paragraph 8.10 of this report makes clear reference to this requirement and the Appointments Panel will be guided and informed by section 5.14 of the guidance when considering nominations and in the selection process. The Council has considered the relevance to this report of the provisions of the Human Rights Act 1998 and concluded that the Human Rights Articles are not engaged by this proposal. 14.0 15.0 Timetable for Implementation Pension Fund Panel Members‟ Constitution Working Party (meeting cancelled – paper agreed by email) Borough Council Recruitment 7th January 2015 26th January 2015 First meeting July 2015 24th March 2015 Spring 2015 Appendices Appendix 1 Terms of Reference 16.0 Background Information Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) (Governance) Regulations 2015 – SI 2015, no.57 Guidance on the creation and operation of Local Pension Boards in England and Wales January 2015 246 247 Appendix 1 Detailed Terms of Reference for Hounslow Pension Board In accordance with Section 5 of the Public Service Pensions Act 2013, the local Pension Board will assist Hounslow Council in the governance and administration of the London Borough of Hounslow Pension Fund. The Board's role, members, and working arrangements are contained in these Terms of Reference. 1. Introduction 1.1 The Pension Board is established by Hounslow Council under the powers of clause 5 of the Public Service Pensions Act 2013 and regulation 106 of the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 2015. As such, the Constitution of Hounslow Council does not apply to this Pension Board unless expressly referred to within and permitted by these Terms of Reference. 2. Powers of the Pension Board 2.1 The Pension Board will exercise all its powers and duties in accordance with the law and this Terms of Reference. 3. Role of the Pension Board 3.1 The role of the Pension Board is defined by regulation 106 (1) of the LGPS Regulations. It will assist Hounslow Council as Scheme Manager of the London Borough of Hounslow Pension Fund to secure compliance with the LGPS Regulations and any other legislation relating to the governance and administration of the Scheme, and any requirements imposed in relation to the LGPS by the Pensions Regulator. The Regulations give more detail as to these matters. Regulation 106 specifies that the Pension Boards will assist the Administering Authority to secure compliance with:the Regulations; and with other legislation relating to the governance and administration of the LGPS; and with any requirements imposed by the Regulator in relation to the LGPS; and to ensure the effective and efficient governance and administration of the LGPS. Regulation 106 (8) also states that ‘A local pension board shall have the power to do anything which is calculated to facilitate, or is conducive or incidental to, the discharge of any of its functions’. 248 3.2 The Council considers para 3.1 to mean that the Pension Board is providing oversight of pension matters and, accordingly, the Pension Board is not a decision making body in relation to the management of the Pension Fund. In relation to ensuring the effective and efficient governance and administration of the Pension Fund, this will be interpreted to mean having oversight of whether the aims and objectives outlined within the Pension Fund's Governance and Administration strategies are being achieved, having regard to any overriding requirements included within guidance from the DCLG, the Scheme Advisory Board or the Pensions Regulator. 3.3 The Pension Board will ensure that in performing their role it is: o done effectively and efficiently; and o complies with relevant legislation; and o is done by having due regard to any relevant Codes of Practice on the governance and administration of local government pension schemes issued by the Pensions Regulator and any other relevant statutory or non-statutory guidance. 3.4 The Board must provide minutes of each meeting to the following Pension Fund Panel copied to the Assistant Director, Strategic Finance, and may make reports and recommendations to the Pension Fund Panel insofar as they relate to the role of the Pension Board. Any such reports or recommendations must be provided at least 15 working days in advance of the next Pension Fund Panel to the Head of Treasury, Pensions and Capital and the Assistant Director, Strategic Finance. 3.5 In the exceptional circumstances that the Board considers that a matter brought to the attention of the Pension Fund Panel and Assistant Director, Strategic Finance has not been acted upon or resolved to their satisfaction by the Pension Fund Panel and/or Assistant Director, Strategic Finance, the Pension Board will provide a report to the Lead Member for Finance. 4. Appointment Panel for the Pension Board The Appointments Panel overseeing the appointment process and deciding which individuals should be appointed to the Pension Board will consist of: • the Lead Member for Finance • Head of Treasury, Pensions and Capital • the Assistant Director, Corporate Governance/ Monitoring Officer • Human Resources representative • Staff Side Secretary 249 5. Membership The Pension Board shall consist of 4 members and be constituted as follows:i) Two Employer Representatives ii) Two Scheme Member Representatives Substitutes for the Employer or Scheme Member Representatives are not permitted. Neither employer nor scheme member representatives can sit on both the Pension Fund Panel and the Pension Board. 6. Eligibility and selection criteria i) Two Employer Representatives – at least one of the employer representatives must be an elected member of the largest employing body i.e. Hounslow Council. ii) Two Scheme Member Representatives – at least one of the representatives must be a member of the largest employing body, i.e. the London Borough of Hounslow, and membership may be any of the following categories: active, deferred or pensioner. 7. Appointment of Members 7.1 The process for selecting members of the Pension Board is as set out below. Step 1 – Fund employers will be invited to nominate individuals to represent employers on the Pension Board. Hounslow Councillors will be invited to apply to represent Hounslow Council as an employing body. Scheme members will be invited to nominate themselves or other scheme members to represent scheme members on the Pension Fund. Step 2 – The Appointments Panel can reject any nomination/application made where they consider the individual does not appropriately meet their eligibility and/or selection criteria. The Appointments Panel will determine who should be appointed as members of the Pension Board based on whatever process they consider appropriate, which may include but is not restricted to a formal interview. Step 3 - Where Step 1 and 2 fails to appoint the four required members the Appointments Panel will take any other action they consider appropriate to appoint suitable Pension Board members. 250 8. Term of Office 8.1 Each employer representative and scheme member representative shall serve a fixed 4 year period to tie in with local elections. The first Pension Board will serve a 3 year term to May 2018. 8.2 Any Pension Board member may be re-appointed for further terms following an appointment process. 8.3 Other than ceasing to be eligible (as set out above) a Pension Board member may only be removed from office during the term of appointment by the unanimous agreement of the Appointments Panel. Such reasons may include non-compliance with these Terms of Reference including inappropriate conduct, conflicts of interest, avoidance of training or low meeting attendance. 9. Quorum 9.1 All Members of the Pension Board are expected to regularly attend meetings. 9.2 A meeting of the Pension Board will only be quorate when three of the four Employer and Scheme Member Representatives are present. 9.3 A meeting that becomes inquorate may continue but decisions will not be binding. 10. Chair and Vice Chair 10.1 The Appointment Panel will appoint a Chair and a Vice Chair from the membership of the Pension Board. 10.2 The appointments to Chair and Vice Chair will be reviewed at such times as considered appropriate by the Assistant Director, Strategic Finance and Assistant Director, Corporate Governance OR Appointments Panel. 10.3 The role of the Chair is to:• Ensure that all members of the Board show due respect for process, that all views are fully heard and considered and to determine that decisions are democratically made where consensus cannot be reached; • To uphold and promote the purpose of the Board and to interpret its Terms of Reference when necessary; • Ensure that the Pension Board members have the knowledge and skills as determined in the Fund's Training Policy and other guidance or legislation and maintain a training record; • Agree the agenda for each Pension Board meeting; • Approve minutes for Pension Board meetings; 251 • Write reports required by Hounslow Council on the work of the Board; • Any other tasks which may be deemed appropriate by Hounslow Council for the Chair of the Pension Board; • Other tasks that may be requested by the members of the Pension Board, within the remit of these Terms of Reference and subject to agreement with the Assistant Director, Strategic Finance; • Annually review and report on the performance of the Board. 10.4 The decision of the Chair on all points of procedure and order shall be final. 11. Voting 11.1 All Pension Board members will have individual voting rights but it is expected the Pension Board will as far as possible reach a consensus. 11.2 The Chair will have the final deciding vote in cases where an equality of votes exists. 11.3 Any other person attending a meeting will not have the right to vote. 11.4 The results of any voting outcomes will be reported in the Board minutes. 12. Location and Timing 12.1 The Pension Board will normally meet at an office of Hounslow Council. 12.2 Meetings will take place at any point on a Monday to Friday during the normal working day. 12.3 The Board will meet twice in each calendar year. The Chair may call additional meetings in exceptional circumstances. 12.4 Urgent business of the Pension Board between meetings may, in exceptional circumstances, be conducted via communications between members of the Pension Board including telephone conferencing and e-mails. 13. Expenses 13.1 Expenses will be paid if claimed by the representative and must be claimed within four weeks of each meeting. 14. Conflicts of Interest 14.1 Though members of the Pension Board include representatives of specific categories of stakeholder (i.e. scheme members and employers) each member is required to have due regard to the role of the Pension Board as outlined in these Terms of Reference. Accordingly all members are expected to work 252 jointly in the best interests of the Pension Fund, putting aside any individual views of any stakeholders. This should not prevent members from sharing their knowledge on how matters might impact specific stakeholders of the Fund. 14.2 Each member of the Pension Board (as well as any other attendees participating in the meeting) will be expected to declare, on appointment and at each meeting, any interests which may lead to conflicts of interest in the subject area or specific agenda of that Pension Board. 14.3 The Chair of the Pension Board must be satisfied that the Board is acting within:• the conflicts of interest requirements of the Public Service Pensions Act and the LGPS Regulations, and • in the spirit of any national guidance or code of practice in relation to conflicts of interest at the Pension Board, and • in accordance with any London Borough of Hounslow Pension Fund Conflicts of Interest Policy or Procedures that apply to the Board. 14.4 Hounslow Council's Code of Conduct for Members and Co-optees shall apply in relation to the management of conflicts of interest on the Pension Board. 14.5 Each member of the Pension Board, or a person proposed to be appointed to the Board, (as well as attendees participating in the meeting) must provide the Chair of the Pension Board with such information as he or she reasonably requires for the purposes of demonstrating that there is no conflict of interest. 14.6 The Assistant Director, Strategic Finance and Assistant Director, Corporate Governance will jointly adopt the role of ensuring that the Chair of the Pension Board does not have a conflict of interest in the same way as the Chair does in relation to all other Pension Board members. 14.7 A conflict of interest is defined in the Public Service Pensions Act as: "in relation to a person, means a financial or other interest which is likely to prejudice the person’s exercise of functions as a member of the board (but does not include a financial or other interest arising merely by virtue of membership of the scheme or any connected scheme)." 15. Receipt of advice and information 15.1 Pension Board members will receive the reports, minutes and agendas relating to all Pension Fund Panels and may attend Pension Fund Panel meetings (including during exempt items). 15.2 Insofar as it relates to the role of the Pension Board, it may also; 253 • request and receive information and reports from the Pension Fund Panel or any other body or officer responsible for the management of the Fund; • examine decisions made or actions taken by the Pension Fund Panel or any other body or officer responsible for the management of the Fund. 15.3 Any further requests for information and advice are subject to the approval of the Assistant Director, Strategic Finance who will be required to consider positively all reasonable requests in relation to the role of the Pension Board whilst being mindful of value for money. 16. Knowledge and Skills 16.1 Under the requirements of the Public Service Pensions Act, a member of the Pension Board must be conversant with:a) the legislation and associated guidance of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), and b) any document recording policy about the administration of the LGPS which is adopted by the London Borough of Hounslow Pension Fund. 16.2 In addition, a member of the Local Pension Board must have knowledge and understanding of:• the law relating to pensions, and • any other matters which are prescribed in regulations. 16.3 Pension Board members are required to refresh and keep their knowledge up to date. Pension Board members are therefore required to:• comply with the training requests of the Administering Authority. A training programme will be established which will include at least three full days of training provided by an external provider at the start of each term of office; and • comply with the Pension Fund's Training Policy insofar as it relates to Pension Board members. It is intended that a joint training programme for Pension Fund Panel and Pension Board members will be developed; and • participate in training events (a written record of relevant training and development will be maintained); and • undertake a personal training needs analysis or other method to identify gaps in skills, competencies and knowledge; and • comply with any guidance issued by national bodies. 254 17. Standards of Conduct 17.1 The Code of Conduct for Members and Co-optees in Hounslow Council's Constitution shall apply in relation to the standards of conduct of Pension Board members as if they are Co-opted Members of Hounslow Council insofar as it can be reasonably considered to apply to the role of members of the Pension Board and unless excluded elsewhere within these Terms of Reference. 18. Administration 18.1 The Head of Treasury, Pensions and Capital will agree an agenda with the Chair of the Pension Board prior to each Pension Board meeting. The agenda and any papers for the Pension Board will be issued at least 5 working days (where practicable) in advance of the meeting except in the case of matters of urgency. Minutes will be subject to formal agreement by the Chair taking consideration of comments by Board members (which may be done electronically between meetings). 18.2 The minutes may, at the discretion of the Chair, be edited to exclude items on the grounds that they would either involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as specified in Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 or it being confidential for the purposes of Section 100A(2) of that Act and/or they represent data covered by the Data Protection Act 1998. 19. Access to the Public and publication of Pension Board information 19.1 The following will be entitled to attend Pension Board meetings in an observer capacity:• Members of the London Borough of Hounslow Pension Fund Panel ; • the Assistant Director, Strategic Finance, and the Monitoring Officer, and the Head of Treasury, Pensions and Capital, and the Assistant Director, Corporate Governance, and the Lead Member for Finance; • other officers or advisers of Hounslow Council or other employers involved with the management of the Pension Fund subject to approval in advance by the Chair, or on request by the Chair; • any other person requested to attend by the Chair; • any other person subject to approval in advance by the Chair. Any such attendees will be permitted to speak on request to the Chair. 19.2 Otherwise, the Pension Board will be treated in the same way as a Committee of the Hounslow Council and, as such, members of the public may attend and 255 papers will be made public in accordance with the Access to Information Procedure Rules in Hounslow Council's Constitution. 20. Accountability and reporting lines 20.1 The Pension Board will be formally responsible to Cabinet. A précis of the minutes will be reported to Cabinet after each meeting of the Board. In addition, the Board must provide minutes of each meeting to the following Pension Fund Panel copied to the Assistant Director, Strategic Finance, and may make reports and recommendations to the Pension Fund Panel insofar as they relate to the role of the Pension Board. 21. Review, Interpretation and Publication of Terms of Reference 21.1 These Terms of Reference have been agreed by Hounslow Council. The Council will monitor and evaluate the operation of the Pension Board and may review these Terms of Reference from time to time. 21.2 Changes to these Terms of Reference will only be approved by the Full Council. 21.3 The Monitoring Officer is authorised to make minor amendments, consequential upon statutory or regulatory change, or to rectify errors, or to update arrangements consequential upon other external factors. 21.4 These Terms of Reference will be published as an appendix to the Council's Constitution and will be available as part of the Constitution as defined in the Council's Constitution. They will also form part of the London Borough of Hounslow Pension Fund's Governance Policy and Compliance Statement which will be made available in accordance with the requirements of the LGPS Regulations. 256 Agenda Item 9 Report for: ACTION Contains Confidential or Exempt Information No Title Member Reporting Contact Details Pay Statement 2015 Councillor Ajmer Grewal John Walsh AD Transformation & HR 0208 583 2100 [email protected] Borough Council 24 March 2015 1 April 2015 For Consideration By Date to be Considered Implementation Date if Not Called In Affected Wards Keywords/Index 1. None Senior Staff Salary Pay Localism Multiple Policy Statement Details of Recommendations Borough Council is asked to: 1. Agree the Pay Statement for 2015, attached at Appendix A, as required under the Localism Act 2011. 2. Agree the proposed revisions to the Chief Officer and Chief Executive payscales from 1 April 2015 If the recommendations are adopted, how will residents benefit? Benefits to residents and reasons why they will Dates by which they can benefit, link to Values expect to notice a difference Residents will benefit by having clear and open Once the Pay Statement information about the pay of senior staff within is approved by Borough the council and the general approach to pay Council. within the authority. This links to the value set out in the People Strategy of establishing a culture of openness and trust. 2. Report Summary 1. This report deals with the Pay Statement for the year 2015/16. 2. These recommendations are being made because the council is required, under the Localism Act 2011, to agree and publish a Pay Statement on an annual basis. 3. This report also lays out a proposed revision to the Chief Officer and 1 257 Chief Executive payscales to ensure that this Council has the flexibility to attract and retain senior staff as it requires. 3. Reason for Decision and Options Considered 3.1 Following the ‘Hutton Review of Fair Pay in the Public Sector’ (March 2011) and the government’s desire to achieve greater transparency in public sector pay1, the government has sought to ensure that certain key principles are addressed by way of a Pay Statement. The objective of both is to ensure that there is greater accountability where larger salary and severance packages are offered and greater transparency regarding the remuneration of the highest and lowest paid employees. 3.2 The government recognises that each local authority is an individual employer and has the autonomy to make its own decisions on pay that are appropriate to local circumstances and which deliver value for money. 3.3 The aim of the Localism Act is to ensure that authorities are more open about their own local policies and how their local decisions are made. 3.4 The provisions of the Localism Act do not apply to staff of local authority schools and therefore those employed in schools, under the control of governing bodies, are not within the scope of the Pay Statement. Issues to be addressed in the pay statement 3.5 It is a requirement that the Pay Statement must set out the council’s policy on: the level and elements of remuneration for each chief officer the remuneration of the lowest paid employees (along with its definition of this group and the rationale for that definition) the relationship between the remuneration of its chief officers and other officers other specific aspects of chief officers’ remuneration: remuneration on recruitment, increases and additions to remuneration, use of performance-related pay and bonuses and termination payments. 3.6 The attached statement specifies that chief officers’ salaries are set in accordance with the approved salary scale, evaluated using the Hay scheme. It also gives the council’s definition for the lowest paid employees (that is those on the lowest spinal column point of the council’s pay scale, subject to no-one receiving below the London Living Wage). 1 Code of Recommended Practice for Local Authorities on Data Transparency: CLG 29 September 2011; Openness and Accountability in local pay: Guidance under section 40 of the Localism Act 2011, November 2011, February 2012, February 2013. 2 258 3.7 Issues relating to the other aspects of remuneration are addressed in the Pay Statement. 3.8 In addition the Pay Statement identifies (as recommended in the guidance produced by the JNC for Chief Executives and ALACE2) that, at Hounslow Council, the JNC terms and conditions of service for chief officers are incorporated into chief officers’ employment contracts. Proposed revision to Chief Officer and Chief Executive Payscales 3.9 In light of recruitment difficulties with some key Assistant Director roles, a salary benchmarking exercise was undertaken during 2014. This focussed on certain roles across London Councils and a small number of large councils outside of London (based on being potentially commutable) covering a range of responsibility, salary level and job title. A separate exercise was undertaken to benchmark Chief Executive’s pay across London and as a result of these two sets of information gathering exercises and recruitment activity, further intelligence about salary levels for senior roles across London was collected. 3.10 The benchmarking exercise showed Hounslow’s salary levels to be below the higher end of scales being offered across London. In addition for the Chief Executive role, Hounslow’s pay range (when sorting the data by either minimum total package, maximum total package or actual salary) ranks 24 out of the 25 benchmarked councils, indicating that the Council pays at the bottom of the lowest quartile. 3.11 The current Hounslow Chief Officer pay scales include 4 chief officer grades and 1 CEO grade. Currently all but 2 Assistant Directors are paid on CO3 with the other 2 being paid on CO4. The CO2 grade is not used aside from one post historically placed there. As with the main payscales, there is some overlap in grades and points. Utilising the current points on the CO payscale it would be possible to adjust the grading levels to create a ‘Senior AD’ grade at CO2 with some of the current CO1 points and move lower CEO points to CO1 to extend the Director grade. This would enable the council to offer a salary of ‘up to’ £119,159 for the AD roles compared to the current maximum of £97,007 and a comparator maximum of £126,627 plus PRP. 3.12 The current senior team has a number of experienced officers who are committed and delivering against the challenging agenda set. As much effort needs to be made to retain these people in the organisation as to attract new talent. This will require a combination of things; salary levels, engagement activity and re-defining roles and job titles. 3.13 In terms of the pay scales, a one-off (unconsolidated) retention allowance could be used to retain talent in the organisation. This could 2 Localism Act: Pay Policy Statements for Local Authority Chief Executives: LGA and ALACE November 25 2011 3 259 be fixed at a maximum (for example £5k) and paid at the end of each full year of service as an incentive to keep key people in the organisation. 3.14 Taking into account the results of the benchmarking exercise and the recruitment and retention difficulties which the council has recently faced, it is proposed that a revised salary scale should be adopted for Chief Officers and the Chief Executive, as set out in paragraph 3.15 below. These extended payscales, which utilise the current pay points with duplicates being removed, put Hounslow salaries into the median for London Authorities. The revised salary scales will allow greater flexibility when looking to recruit into hard to fill roles and ensure Hounslow can compete for the best talent. In addition the Council will be in a stronger position to retain its senior talent as the revised salary scales will be in line with what is being offered in other London Councils. 3.15 As these new scales are introduced, changes will also be made to the appraisal process for Chief Officers and the Chief Executive. Incremental progression will no longer be available as part of the appraisal process but instead will be subject to new criteria requiring exceptional achievement over and above stretching objectives. Cases for progression will be considered by the Chief Executive (for Chief Officers) and the Leader (for the Chief Executive). 3.16 The proposed payscale does not incorporate the pay award for Chief Officer grades, which was agreed in early February 2015. The effect of that pay award is to increase those on the proposed CO3 payscale by 2%. If the revised payscale is approved by Borough Council, this will replace the current CO salary scale (shown at Appendix B). CO3: AD’s CO2: AD’s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 CO1: Directors 11 12 13 14 15 Chief Executive 16 77,690 81,574 83,148 87,768 92,387 97,007 100,628 106,036 111,548 (Currently CO1) 119,159 (Currently CO1) 126,771 134,382 141,994 148,502 (Currently CEX) 156,901 (Currently CEX) 164,828 4 260 17 18 19 169,828 174,828 180,828 New points Process for approval of the Pay Statement 3.17 As regards process, the Pay Statement must be: approved formally at Borough Council by 31 March every year published on the council’s web site and in any other way the council considers appropriate (see paragraph 3.23) complied with, when the authority sets the terms and conditions for a chief officer complied with when the authority considers the payments made to chief officers who cease to be employed / hold office (see paragraph 3.28) 3.18 The statement can be amended in year, providing it is approved by Borough Council. Accountability 3.19 The government considers that decisions on pay policies should be taken by elected members. As a result, the Localism Act provides that the Pay Statement (and any subsequent amendments) must be considered by a meeting of full council and cannot be delegated to any sub-committee. The meeting should be open to the public and observers must not be excluded. 3.20 In addition, full council should be offered the opportunity to vote before large salary packages are offered in respect of a new appointment and before large severance packages are approved for staff leaving the organisation. The Secretary of State has determined that this should happen where the annual salary package or severance package is £100,000 or more. 3.21 When considering the level of the salary package the following should be taken into account: salary, bonuses, fees or allowances routinely payable to the employee and any benefits in kind to which the officer is entitled as a result of their employment. Severance Packages include, and must provide a breakdown of, salary paid in lieu, redundancy compensation, pension entitlements, holiday pay and any bonuses, fees or allowances paid as part of the package. The Pay Statement reflects these requirements. 3.22 As regards the practical implementation of paragraph 3.19, where a post is being advertised at an annual salary package of £100,000 or more, Borough Council will be offered the opportunity to vote / register any objection in advance of the final interview panel. For severance 5 261 packages, Borough Council will be offered the opportunity to vote / register any objection prior to a final, written offer being made to the employee. This will ensure there is proper accountability where large salary and severance packages are offered and also that the appointment / termination process can continue in as efficient a manner as possible. 3.23 All decisions of pay and reward for chief officers must comply with the current Pay Statement. Transparency 3.24 As well as the council’s approved pay statement being published on the web site, the council is expected to publish data in accordance with the principles set out in the ‘Code of Recommended Practice for Local Authorities on Data Transparency’ (see para 3.1 above) as amended by the Local Government Transparency Code 2014. Previously these aspects were included alongside the pay statement but the timing for publication of the transparency data has been brought forward. The Council was required to publish information regarding organisational charts, the pay multiple, senior staff salaries and trade union facility time by 2 February 2015. As a result these matters are no longer included in this report, although the pay multiple continues to be published in the pay statement as recommended under the Code. 3.25 In support of the Pay Statement, information relating to the pay of senior staff is appended to this report as follows: The senior staff salary scales will be published (see Appendix B) The pay multiple will be published (see Appendix C). The policies that are referred to in the Pay Statement will be available on the council’s web site. Fairness Relationship between highest and lowest paid employees 3.26 The ‘Hutton Report’ highlighted concerns about the different approaches taken to the pay and reward of senior staff compared with that of the lowest paid staff and asked authorities to consider whether any differences in approach can be justified. 3.27 As a result, the Localism Act requires authorities to: Set their policies on remuneration for the highest paid staff alongside their policies toward their lowest paid employees. The Pay Statement has identified the areas in which the pay policy 6 262 differs between chief officers and other staff (incremental progression and payment of allowances) and the rationale for this. Explain what the authority thinks the relationship should be between the remuneration of its chief officers and its employees who are not chief officers. The Pay Statement provides that remuneration at all levels needs to be adequate to secure and retain high quality employees, dedicated to the service of the public, but at the same time to avoid being unnecessarily generous or otherwise excessive. Publicise the organisation’s pay multiple (the ratio between the highest paid employee and the median average earnings across the organisation). The pay multiple is included in the Pay Statement each year and published on the web site after it has been agreed by Borough Council. Make clear what approach the authority takes to the award of other elements of senior remuneration, including bonuses, performance related pay, severance payments and additional fees for chief officers for local election duties. These elements are addressed in the Pay Statement. Performance related pay 3.28 The Hutton report suggests that authorities may wish to operate a system of ‘earn back’ pay, where a proportion of pay is considered to be ‘at risk’ and needs to be earned back through meeting pre-agreed objectives. Hounslow Council does not, currently, operate a system of earn back pay and the Pay Statement reflects this. Chief Officers who leave 3.29 The Act requires authorities to specify a number of aspects relating to chief officers who may leave the authority and any payments they may receive in relation to this: (a) Offering severance payments - the pay statement must cover the approach the authority will take towards offering a severance payment to senior staff as part of a decision to terminate a contract for any reason. At Hounslow, a severance payment can only be made in accordance with the Severance Policy, in which the circumstances where a severance payment can be made, the amount payable and the procedure for doing so are clearly set out. In addition, Borough Council will have the opportunity to vote on large severance packages (of £100,000 or more) before they are offered to an employee (see paragraphs 3.19 – 3.21 above). 7 263 (b) Former employees re-engaged under a contract for services (i.e. as a consultant or agency worker). The council has no cases where a chief officer previously employed by the authority, leaving with a severance or redundancy package, is now re-employed. In the unlikely event that a vacancy or need arose and a previous chief officer or staff member were to be considered suitable either to be re-employed or to be provided with a contract for services, then the Pay Statement sets out the following safeguards: (i) The full and proper recruitment and selection processes, as laid out in the council’s Recruitment and Selection Policy, will always be applied where the proposal is to re-employ. (ii) Any arrangements and decisions made will be in full compliance with the Redundancy Payments (Continuity of Employment in Local Government etc.) (Modification) Order 1999 and any associated amendments. (iii) The detailed standards as laid out in the 'Procurement of Consultancy Services' guidance cover the engagement of consultants. (c) Abatement provisions - the Pay Statement refers to the council’s Pensions Discretions Policy. This makes clear that the abatement provisions will apply if an employee, who is in receipt of a LGPS pension from Hounslow, is re-employed within local government or in a new employment where they would be eligible to join the LGPS before 1 April 2014. Abatement provisions will not be applicable to employees who are reemployed within local government or in a new employment where they would be eligible to join the LGPS after 31 March 2014. (d) Claiming salary and pension – where employees move between authorities, the council will apply the abatement provisions as set out in paragraph (c) above. An employee who wishes to claim their pension whilst working would need to make an application under the council’s Flexible Retirement Policy. 4. Key Implications 4.1 Approval of the Pay Statement satisfies the council’s legal obligation under the Localism Act 2011. 4.2 Publication of the Pay Statement is a statutory requirement under the Localism Act 2011. 5. Financial Details 8 264 a) Financial Impact On The Budget (Mandatory) None b) Comments of the Assistant Director Strategic Finance All payments to staff need to be funded from the amounts set aside in the Council’s approved budget for pay costs. 6. Legal Details/Comments of the Assistant Director Corporate Governance The Council is required by sections 38 and 39 of the Localism Act 2011 to prepare and approve, by resolution of Borough Council, a Pay Policy Statement for each financial year. As soon as is reasonably practicable following such approval, the statement must be published including publication on the Council’s website. The Council is under a duty to have regard to any guidance issued or approved by the Secretary of State under section 40 of the Localism Act 2011. The Assistant Director Corporate Governance supports the recommendation. 7. Value for Money 7.1 There are no value for money implications arising from this report. 8. Sustainability Impact Appraisal 8.1 N/A 9. Risk Management 9.1 There are no identified risks arising from this report. 10. Links to Council Priorities 10.1 Approval and publication of the Pay Statement links to: The corporate plan: an ambitious council delivering quality services and value for money The People Strategy: establishing a culture of openness and trust. 11. Equalities, Human Rights and Community Cohesion 11.1 The Council has to give due regard to its Equalities Duties, in particular with respect to general duties arising pursuant to the Equality Act 2010, 9 265 section 149. Having due regard to the need to advance equality involves, in particular, the need to remove or minimize disadvantages suffered by persons who share a relevant characteristic that are connected to that characteristic. 11.2 The Council has considered the relevance of the proposal to the provisions of the Equality Act 2010 and the Human Rights Act 1998 and concluded that Equalities Duties are not engaged by this proposal. The proposal is also compatible with Human Rights Articles and as the report does not have any significant bearing on the substantive equality duty it is not considered necessary to undertake an Equality Analysis. 12. Staffing/Workforce and Accommodation implications: 12.1 None. 13. Property and Assets 13.1 None. 14. Any Other Implications 14.1 None. 15. Consultation 15.1 The Staff Side has been sent the Pay Statement for information. 16. Timetable for Implementation 16.1 If agreed at Borough Council, the Pay Statement will be implemented with effect from 1 April 2015 and published on the web site, along with the other appendices attached to this report. 17. Appendices 17.1 The appendices associated with this report are set out below: Appendix Content A Pay Statement B Senior Employee Salary Scales at 1 December 2014 C Pay Multiple 18. Background Information 18.1 There is no background information nor any background papers in relation to this report. 10 266 REPORT ENDS 11 267 Appendix A PAY STATEMENT 1 Introduction 1.1 This Pay Statement sets out the council’s policies towards a range of issues relating to the pay of the workforce, in particular chief officers and the lowest paid staff. 1.2 In accordance with the requirements of the Localism Act 2011, the Pay Statement will be agreed by Borough Council for each financial year and will be published on the council’s web site. This statement can be amended during the financial year, providing any changes are approved by Borough Council. 1.3 All decisions on pay and reward for chief officers will comply with this Pay Statement. 1.4 Borough Council will be given the opportunity to vote before salary packages are offered in respect of a new appointment where the annual salary package is £100,000 or over and before severance packages are offered to staff leaving the organisation where the severance package is £100,000 or over. 2 Aim 2.1 At a time when the council and the wider economy is facing considerable financial pressure and uncertainty, it is understandable that there are high levels of interest in, and scrutiny of, the council’s senior management pay and reward structures. 2.2 In the context of managing scarce public resources, remuneration at all levels needs to be adequate to secure and retain high-quality employees dedicated to the service of the public, but at the same time needs to avoid being unnecessarily generous or otherwise excessive (and seen as such). 2.3 The aim of this statement is therefore to set out clearly the council’s approach to the remuneration of staff and to comply with the requirements of the Localism Act. 3 Scope 3.1 Staff employed in schools, under the control of governing bodies, are not covered by this Pay Statement. 4 Remuneration of Chief Officers 4.1 Following a job evaluation and benchmarking exercise conducted under the HayGroup Job Evaluation Scheme (‘Hay Scheme’) in 2006, the council formally adopted a salary scale for chief officers. The ‘Hay Scheme’ is a systematic process for ranking jobs logically and fairly by comparing job against job or against a pre-determined scale to determine the relative importance of jobs to an organisation. Any new posts will be evaluated using 268 the Hay Scheme and paid in accordance with the Chief Officer Salary Scale. 4.2 The Chief Officer Salary Scale is published on the council’s web site. Level of remuneration 4.3 The level and elements of chief officers’ remuneration are set out on the council’s web site. Pay on Recruitment 4.4 On recruitment, a chief officer will be paid in accordance with the council’s approved Chief Officer Salary Scale (see paragraph 4.1 above). 4.5 The council seeks to appoint the majority of its senior officers as employees and will therefore remunerate them in accordance with the terms of this Pay Statement. Where it is necessary to engage individuals on any other basis, the council will source agency workers through its neutral vendor agency provider or apply standard procurement processes to contracts for services. Additional Pay 4.6 Chief Officers will receive an annual increment if, following their performance and development appraisal (PDA), their performance has been rated at least ‘satisfactory’. Where awarded, the chief officer will move to the next point on the salary scale for their grade. Once at the maximum, there will be no further increases or additions to their remuneration other than any pay awards which may be collectively agreed by the Joint Negotiating Committee (see paragraph 4.18). 4.7 Chief Officers may receive a one-off, unconsolidated retention allowance of up to £5,000 at the end of each whole year of service with the council. This is in recognition of the need to retain talent in the organisation in key posts. 4.8 The council does not operate a system of ‘earn-back’ pay for chief officers, where an element of their pay is ‘at risk’ and has to be earned back each year through meeting pre-agreed objectives. 4.9 Chief Officers do not receive any bonus payments. 4.10 The Chief Executive is the council’s Returning Officer. The Returning Officer’s fee is paid separately from and in addition to the Chief Executive’s salary. The Returning Officer’s fee is not set by the council but determined either by central government or another determining body e.g. the Local Government Association. 4.11 Additional fees for chief officers in respect of any local election duties they may perform are paid separately from salary at levels determined by the Returning Officer. 269 4.12 Chief officers, who are members of the Local Government Pension Scheme, will make the following contributions from their salary into the pension fund from 1 April 2014: Salary level Up to £13,500 £13,501 - £21,000 £21,001 - £34,000 £34,001 - £43,000 £43,001 - £60,000 £60,001 - £85,000 £85,001 - £100,000 £100,001 - £150,000 £150,001 and over 4.13 Contribution 5.5% 5.8% 6.5% 6.8% 8.5% 9.9% 10.5% 11.4% 12.5% The council’s employer contribution to the pension fund for all contributing members is 21.5%. When employment ends 4.14 A chief officer who ceases employment with the council may be entitled to a severance payment if they are being dismissed either on grounds of redundancy or on grounds of efficiency of the service. The procedure and payments applicable in these circumstances are governed by the council’s Severance Policy and also the Redundancy and Redeployment Policy, which are published on the council’s website. 4.15 The council’s Pensions Discretion Policy sets out the discretions which the council is able to exercise in the case of chief officers (and all other employees). The procedure for approving the application of any pension discretion is contained within this policy. 4.16 The Pensions Discretion Policy makes clear that the abatement provisions of the Local Government Pension scheme will apply if an employee, who is in receipt of a LGPS pension from Hounslow, is re-employed within local government or in a new employment where they would be eligible to join the LGPS before 1 April 2014. Abatement provisions will not be applicable to employees who are re-employed within local government or in a new employment where they would be eligible to join the LGPS after 31 March 2014. 4.17 In the unlikely event that a previous chief officer, who had left the authority with a severance or redundancy package, were considered suitable to be reemployed or to provide a contract for services, the following safeguards are in place: (i) The full and proper recruitment and selection processes, as laid out in the council’s Recruitment and Selection Policy, will always be applied where the proposal is to re-employ. (ii) Any arrangements and decisions made will be in full compliance with the Redundancy Payments (Continuity of Employment in Local 270 Government etc.) (Modification) Order 1999 and any associated amendments. (iii) The detailed standards as laid out in the 'Procurement of Consultancy Services' guidance cover the engagement of consultants. Terms and conditions of employment 4.18 Chief Officers’ terms and conditions of employment are in accordance with the Scheme of Conditions of Service for the Joint Negotiating, Committee (JNC) for Local Authorities’ Chief Officers as supplemented by the council’s employment policies. These may be amended from time to time by the council and agreements made with the chief officers’ representative body. 5 Remuneration of the lowest paid employees 5.1 The remuneration of the lowest-paid employees is determined by the application of the Greater London Provincial Council Job Evaluation Scheme (‘GLPC Scheme’). The GLPC Scheme was developed for use by London boroughs and its aim is to operate grading arrangements based on principles of fairness, transparency, and consistency. 5.2 As at 1 December 2014, the lowest paid employee is on spinal column point 5 (grade LLW1a of the council’s payscale) of the scheme. Whilst the nationally agreed rate of pay for this post (as amended for London Boroughs) is £16,242 per year, the council adopted the London Living Wage for all employees with effect from 1 November 2011. As a result, the lowest paid employee now receives the London Living Wage rate of £16,518 per annum. Following the announcement of an increase in the London Living Wage to £9.15 per hour, the lowest paid employee will receive £17,175 per annum from 1 April 2015. 5.3 The pay multiple is the ratio between the highest paid earner and the average median earnings of the whole workforce. At Hounslow, the highest paid earner, at 1 December 2014, receives £164,828 per annum and the lowest paid employee receives £16,518 making the pay multiple 5.8 times the median salary and the pay ratio 1:10. The median salary is £28,555. 5.4 The council currently employs apprentices on specific pay rates which are in line with the pay rates set by government. These pay rates are not included in the pay multiple calculations as these are based on substantive pay grades only. 6 Relationship between the remuneration of the council’s chief officers and other officers 6.1 The council’s pay policies, in relation to chief officers and other staff, differ in respect of performance related pay and allowances. 6.2 For chief officers, the Chief Officer Appraisal Scheme provides that an increment is only payable if the outcome of their PDA is that their performance is at least ‘satisfactory’. This also applies to employees whose posts are graded in the Hounslow Management Group (HMG) range. For all other 271 employees, progression through the salary scale is not dependent on achieving satisfactory performance, although an increment can be withheld if the employee is underperforming and being considered under the council’s Capability Policy. The rationale for this different approach is a recognition that local residents are entitled to expect that higher earning employees are delivering the council’s objectives and are accountable to the community for the work they perform. 6.3 As regards allowances, the council’s Allowances Policy sets out the circumstances in which particular allowances can be claimed and the rates which are payable. The policy expressly provides that chief officers and employees in the HMG grades are not entitled to claim these allowances. The rationale for this approach is that senior members of staff are expected to carry out the duties of their post, and any others that may be required, for the effective performance of their role and to meet the needs of the council. It is considered that the level of pay they receive is sufficient to compensate them for any additional work which they may be required to undertake. 7 Review 7.1 The Pay Statement will be reviewed annually and a new statement approved by Borough Council before 31 March every year. The revised statement will be published on the council’s web site after agreement has been reached. 272 Appendix B Senior Employee Salary Scales as at 1 December 2014 Chief Officers CEO 1 2 3 4 140103 148502 156901 164828 CO1 1 2 3 4 5 111548 119159 126771 134382 141994 CO2 1 2 3 4 90130 95380 100628 106036 CO3 1 2 3 4 83148 87768 92387 97007 CO4 1 2 3 4 73805 77690 81574 85459 Hounslow Management Group (HMG) HMG1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 273 57363 58350 59331 60324 61590 62877 64191 65544 66915 68105 69720 Appendix C Pay Multiple The council’s pay multiple is 5.8 times the median average salary and the pay ratio is 1:10. This is calculated on the basis that the highest paid earner receives £164,828 per annum and the lowest paid earner receives £16,518 per annum. Minimum Lower quartile Median Upper quartile Maximum 16,518.00 21,588.00 28,555.00 36,669.00 164,828.00 Mean 30,720.63 Count FTE 2,340 274
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