Some of you may have seen this planning notice near the Toton tram stop – Certificate of Alternative Development for the previous Toton HS2 site.
The Forum has been aware of it for a while, but it has taken us some time to get to the bottom of it! The details can be found on Broxtowe’s planning portal by typing 25/00646/ALT into the search box. There are only four documents submitted with this application, all diagrams and no written explanation.
As we understand it, a Certificate of Alternative Development can be applied for by a landowner to determine the compensation value of their land when subject to a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) i.e. what their land would be worth if not compulsory purchased. It is not a formal planning application per se.
We believe that the applicant is the owner of a property on Carnforth Close (Stapleford) which would have been subject to a CPO as it fell within the original HS2 safeguarded area. The rest of the area (the vast majority) marked within the red boundary is not in his ownership! Again as we understand it, none of this land is now subject to a CPO following the cancellation of the Eastern leg of HS2, and therefore in our view such a certificate is unnecessary and takes no account of our Neighbourhood Plan as what is being suggested as alternative development (nuclear reactors and some form of stadium) is unacceptable. On that basis the Forum has lodged an objection to Broxtowe.
Our representations to this application can be viewed here.
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