A council has been given the green light to buy land needed for the construction of the proposed Gedling Access Road (GAR).
Nottinghamshire County Council’s Policy Committee today (17) gave the go ahead to buy the two areas of land that form part of Glebe Farm on Lambley Lane in Gedling and Ranch Kennels on Whitworth Drive in Burton Joyce.
The GAR will be a 3.8km stretch of road linking the existing A612 Trent Valley Road/ Nottingham Road to Mapperley Plains (B684).
It has been designed to ease congestion in Gedling Village whilst providing safe access to the new Chase Farm housing estate on the former Gedling colliery site.
The GAR is being constructed by Nottinghamshire County Council and Via East Midlands in partnership with Homes England (HE), Gedling Borough Council and also Keepmoat Homes – the housing developer for the Chase Farm site, who are joint funding the new road.
Without the GAR in place, Keepmoat has said it would need to limit the number of houses it builds to 315.
As part of its funding agreement with NCC, HE is making £7m available to Nottinghamshire County Council to make land purchases, as needed.
The main construction works are expected to last 18 months and it is anticipated that the road will be completed and open to traffic before the end of 2020, based on a start date of summer 2019.
Advanced works, including diversions to some of the underground services, have already been completed. Other related construction work, to enable completion of the project, will continue to be carried out.
Nottinghamshire County Council leader, Kay Cutts said: “This is one of the major infrastructure projects that the county council is involved in and brings with it huge benefits for residents, new home owners, road users and businesses in the area.
“Today’s sign-off on these two permissions to purchase signals a further step forward for this scheme which will provide much-needed infrastructure required to meet future growth, making way for up to 1,050 new homes to be built whilst reducing congestion in Gedling Village.
Wherever possible, Nottinghamshire County Council is seeking to acquire the land needed for construction of the road by agreement.
“To leave acquisitions until the Compulsory Purchase Order is confirmed would potentially be more costly and time-consuming if objections were received,” added Cllr Cutts.
However, whilst plans have been carefully designed to minimise the amount of land needed, and use land which is already owned by the council or public sector partners, the road will need to cross 21 other plots – 14 of which are owned by private individuals.
The Council’s service director for investment and growth David Hughes said: “Legal processes are underway to acquire the essential land and rights needed to build the GAR, including making changes to side roads and other access points affected by the new road. These are known as a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) and Side Roads Order (SRO).
“The Orders have been prepared and are being served on landowners and published later this month.
“The need for a CPO – as a last resort – was always expected given the number of private landowners involved. However, negotiations to buy the necessary land and property by agreement are ongoing, with terms either agreed or close to agreement for a number of key plots of land across the route.”
For further details on GAR go to www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/GAR.
More concrete being pored over the lovely grass fields of Gedling. Oh, will it never stop under the John Clark leadership. Is any green space sacred in our borough or will the GBC leadership only be happy when its all concreted over? They were even willing to whack a car park at Gedling Country Park to accomodate a bloody tram park and ride. Mad! THEIR OWN COUNTRY PARK. Bring on the super council I say!!!!
Oh dear Tim. Perhaps you need some FACTS.
FACT 1. The Park and Ride for the tram is NOT within country park, and will only be implemented if tram is extended to Gedling along the old mineral line which does not enter the country park area.
FACT 2. The additional housing on the Chase Farm and Collier site was part of the local plan before Labour took control in 2011.
FACT 3. This additional housing is necessary to meet the Conservative Government’s set target for housing in Gedling.
Where else would Tim prefer it to be built to meet that target?
Oh, by the way Tim, the grass fields you refer to are mainly the old colliery site.
Let them destroy nature fizissist. Been to look at teal close lately? Hedgerows ripped up and wildlife being killed all for the sake of more houses. Be no green spaces left soon but all for progress and the short term hey. Are you JC in disguise?
Tell me Tim.
Are you a NIMBY, a NOTE or a BANANA?
People need homes. They have to be built somewhere.
What was there before your house and those near or were built?
Tell me Tim.
Are you a NIMBY, a NOTE or a BANANA?
People need homes. They have to be built somewhere.
What was there before your house and those near to it were built?
Dissent will not be tolerated.