Issue details

The Council has to make a decision as to whether the land to be appropriated is no longer required for the purpose for which it was held immediately before the appropriation; this is a statutory requirement of Section 122 (1) of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended).

To enable this, the Council published a notice under section 122 (2A) of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended) of the intended appropriation of the said land at Parc y Werin in The South Wales Evening Post on the 23 and 30 May 2015. No objections were received in response to this notice.

A further Notice was published on 30 June 2017 with a deadline for receipt of objections by 28 July 2017. Due to the number of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests received prior to and during that period and the significant amount of correspondence and documentation referred to within the responses to the FOI requests, a decision was made to extend the deadline for objections until 4 August 2017.

However, a number of the objections highlighted the fact that the notice was only published for one week and not two consecutive weeks as required.

The notice was therefore republished on Wednesday 16 August and Wednesday 23 August for 2 consecutive weeks with a deadline for objections of the 7 September 2017.

This report will consider the objections received to enable the Cabinet to decide whether or not to proceed with the appropriation.

Should the Cabinet decide to proceed with the appropriation, then in order for the new build for Gorseinon primary School to proceed it must also;

• Confirm the commitment to the Capital Programme the scheme for the new build for Gorseinon Primary School subject to entering into a contract with Welsh Government.