Purpose

The Council has successfully applied for Towns
Fund monies to deliver three projects:
Project A - Doncaster Gateway: Railway Square extension
Project B - Doncaster Station Gateway: New multi-use building and
associated public realm
Project C – Doncaster Station Gateway: Heritage
The proposed locations for Projects A and B are currently occupied
by privately owned properties incorporating buildings and land,
including an office development, a retail wholesale company and a
vacant property.
The Council will seek to acquire the land needed to construct the
scheme by negotiation with owners and occupiers but to ensure that
any land or interests that cannot be acquired by
agreement are available for the start of the programmed project
construction stage a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) will be
prepared in parallel.
This avoids potential delay to the scheme and the CPO process
provides a statutory mechanism for objection and appropriate
compensation, so that interest holders are not disadvantaged. CPO
also allows the Council to override any third-party interests that
burden the land and may prevent development. It also provides
certainty in relation to highway land owned by the Council, but to
which it does not hold all the relevant historical documents.
See attached Officer decision record for further information.

Content

Approval of the Statement of Reasons setting
out the Councils justification for making a CPO.
Approval of the making of the CPO, the publication and service of
any press, site and individual notices and other correspondence for
such making.