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Oxfordshire, Compulsory Purchase Order For Infrastructure Works

OX11Published 30/07/25
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OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL

RightNature of New Right to be compulsorily acquired
1ACCESS AND GENERAL CONSTRUCTION

To enter the land at all times (with or without vehicles, machinery, equipment, plant and materials) for all purposes necessary in connection with the survey, demolition, construction, strengthening, protection, verification, realignment, renewal, drainage, diversion, extension, treatment, replacement of land, and highway works and public signage on or adjoining the land, and the creation or construction of a cutting into the land, including works to alter the existing level of the land permanently or temporarily and for topsoil storage and removal. To enter the land and bring it to a condition suitable for the proposed works including bringing to waste good quality or poor-quality subsoil and topsoil which would ordinarily not be stored on the land and would be unsuitable for agricultural use, to temporarily stop up private means of access and reinstate them where affected by the scheme and to reconfigure land or modify the landform and soil so that it can be brought back into beneficial use.

2OVER-SAIL

To over-sail land as crane or cranes (including, but not limited to, mobile crane platforms, jib and hoists and all associated equipment, fixtures and fittings that form part of the crane) move loads from outside the land through the airspace over the land without requiring the vehicle itself to temporarily set up on the land underneath for suitable shelby to accord with site construction practices.

3SCAFFOLDING/HOARDING/SAFETY FENCING

To erect, place, alter, maintain, inspect, repair, maintain, repair, use, inspect, take down and/or re-erect and to affix or display scaffolding or hoarding for the purpose of enabling or facilitating the works and to gain and/or maintain access to the adjoining land to support the land and/or structures on the land and/or for health and safety and/or environmental reasons, including to provide barriers to access or viewing and to provide and retain warning signs and other information for health and safety, security, inspection and/or other reasons.

4UTILITY SERVICES

To disconnect, install, lay, strengthen, connect to, divert, alter, use, maintain, repair, replace, renew, inspect and remove the utility services in or under the land and to survey and make good any damage caused or in connection with the laying of these rights.

5AMENDMENTS TO ACCESS/EGRESS ARRANGEMENTS

To alter, divert, replace and remove access/egress routes to or from the land to/from any part forming part of the Order limits and to carry out works and to maintain any maintenance means of access/egress from the land with carrying out such works and strengthening the owners and occupiers of land to use said access/egress.

6FUTURE INSPECTIONS AND MAINTENANCE

To enter the land at all times (with or without vehicles, machinery, equipment, plant and materials) for the purposes of inspection and maintenance including any road bridge structure to be re-constructed, together with any ancillary support structures, drains, earthworks, or public utility services including communications, communications/other pipeline beneath the bridge deck or other structures or adjacent to them.

7CONDITION SURVEYS

For the site land to (on and off) and temporarily remain on the land for the purposes of undertaking pre-construction condition surveys to assess the pre-existing conditions and to document such conditions by all safe working practices and site documentation, in accordance with the law before, during and after the development works as may be.

8DELIVERIES

To access the land at all times (with or without vehicles, machinery, equipment and plant and materials) for the purposes of off-loading and loading equipment, and carrying out all necessary temporary works (including traffic management and safety) and/or to manage the position of materials to store them in an appropriate and safe location on the site and to ensure that storage and/or off-loading does not create a danger to the land and/or structure or vehicles or pedestrians or cyclists.

9DISCHARGE OF WATER

For the installation and maintenance and construction of a discharge pipe and outfall facility for surface and stormwater drainage and/or wastewater discharges and to subsequently pass such flows to the ultimate outfall and to be constructed as part of the said works where scheme outfalls are situated beyond the extent of the land to be acquired permanently and where necessary for the purpose of said drainage facility. To construct, remove and retain such pipe in the proposed areas for construction, maintenance, inspection, use, removal, repair, replacement and change of the discharge to the extent of a facility’s technical design.

10ECOLOGICAL MITIGATION

The right of access with or without vehicles, plant and machinery for the purpose of undertaking ecological and environmental mitigation works, including (but not limited to) installation of bat boxes, bat houses, reptile fencing, reptile mitigation and relocation areas, tree and hedgerow planting, and implementation of Landscape and Ecological Management Plans and Natural Flood Management Plans and the right to use Natural England and/or the Environment Agency approved sites and Natural England in connection with the works.

11RAIL BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION

The right to carry out construction works above and around railway lines in connection with the construction of new road structures, including piling, reinforcement structures and drainage...

12RAILWAY ACCESS

The right of access with or without vehicles, plant and machinery over the railway crossing in connection with the temporary storage and removal of construction materials and plant equipment on the Acquiring Authority’s adjoining land, including the right to construct, repair and maintain a new temporary diverted railway crossing platform with a right of support for the embankment.

13WATERWAY BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION

The right to carry out construction works above and around the navigable River Thames in connection with the construction of a new road bridge crossing the River Thames, including pilings and reinforcement structures.

14RIVER/WATER CHANNEL BANK ACCESS

The right of access with or without vehicles, plant and machinery over the banks of any River/water channel/drain in the land in connection with improvements works to any River/water channel/ drains and its embankments, including to reinforcement works necessary as a result of the constructed or improved highways.

15BRIDGE MAINTENANCE

The permanent right to access the land around and under the bridge, aqueduct and bridge itself for the purposes of inspection, repair, maintenance and, where necessary, reconstruction of the bridge structure as may be necessary.

SCHEDULE 2

FORM OF STATEMENT OF EFFECT OF PARTS 2 AND 3 OF THE COMPULSORY PURCHASE (VESTING DECLARATIONS) ACT 1981

Power to execute a general vesting declaration

  1. Once the Oxfordshire County Council (Didcot Garden Town Highways Infrastructure – A4130 Improvement (Milton Gate to Collett Roundabout), A417 Didcot to Culham Link Road, and A415 Clifton Hampden Bypass) Compulsory Purchase Order 2022 has become operative, the Oxfordshire County Council (referred to as the Acquiring Authority) may acquire any of the land described in Schedule 1 above by executing a general vesting declaration under section 4 of the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981 (“the Act”). This has the effect, subject to paragraphs 3 and 5 below, of vesting the land in the Acquiring Authority at the end of the period mentioned in paragraph 2 below.

Notices concerning general vesting declaration

  1. As soon as may be after the Acquiring Authority execute a general vesting declaration, they must serve notice of it on every occupier of the land specified in the declaration (except where they are also given this information in paragraph 4) and on every person who gives them information relating to the land in pursuance of the invitation contained in the accompanying notice.

    When this notice has been served and the period specified in the declaration is complete, the period specified in the declaration, of not less than three months, will begin to run. On the first day after the end of this period the land described in the declaration will, subject to what is said in paragraphs 3 and 5, vest in the Acquiring Authority together with the right to enter on the land and take possession of it.

  2. The notice referred to in paragraph 2 above may include information about the effect of the declaration on the occupiers and on other persons having rights in the land (when it is not practicable to include this information in the declaration).

  3. The “vesting date” for any land specified in a declaration will be the end of the period of three months mentioned in paragraph 2 above, unless a counter-notice is served under Schedule A1 to the Act within that period. In such circumstances, the vesting date for the land which is subject to the counter-notice will be determined in accordance with Schedule A1.

Modifications with respect to certain tenancies

  1. In the case of certain tenancies, the position stated above is subject to modifications. The modifications apply where the tenancy is either a “minor tenancy” or a “long tenancy which is about to expire”. The expression “minor tenancy” means a tenancy for a year or a periodic tenancy (for example, from year to year or month to month).

    The expression “long tenancy which is about to expire” means a tenancy granted for a fixed term of greater than a year which is due to end within the period specified in the declaration for the vesting of land in the Acquiring Authority.

    In either of these cases the Acquiring Authority may not enter on the land unless they first serve notice to treat in respect of the tenancy and then wait at least three months before executing the general vesting declaration.

    If the tenancy ends before the end of this three month period, the Authority will then be able (at that time) to execute the general vesting declaration.

    If it does not end before the end of the three month period, the Authority will still be able to execute the declaration, but the tenancy will not be affected by it.

    The land will only vest subject to the tenancy until it expires or is terminated.

SCHEDULE 3

FORM FOR GIVING INFORMATION

The Oxfordshire County Council (Didcot Garden Town Highways Infrastructure – A4130 Improvement (Milton Gate to Collett Roundabout), A417 Didcot to Culham Link Road, and A415 Clifton Hampden Bypass) Compulsory Purchase Order 2022

To: Oxfordshire County Council

I/We being [a] person[s] who, if a general vesting declaration were executed under section 4 of the Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981 in respect of the land comprised in the compulsory purchase order described above in respect of which notice to treat has not been given, would be entitled to claim compensation in respect of that land, give you the following information, pursuant to the provisions of section 15 of, or paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to the Acquisition of Land Act 1981.

  1. Name and address of informant(s):

    ...................................................................................

    ...................................................................................

  2. Land in which an interest is held by informant(s)

    (i) .............................................................................

    (ii) ............................................................................

    (iii) ...........................................................................

  3. Nature of interest

    (i) .............................................................................

    (ii) ............................................................................

    (iii) ...........................................................................

Signed (on behalf of) ..............................................................................................

Date: .........................................................

If the case of a joint interest insert the names and addresses of all the joint holders and indicate the share held by each of them.

If the land is leasehold, the date of commencement and length of the term should be given. If the land is subject to a mortgage or other incumbrance, details should be given, e.g. name of building society and roll number.

Anita Bradley, Director of Law & Governance and Monitoring Officer, Law & Governance, Oxfordshire County Council, County Hall, New Road, Oxford, OX1 1ND

30 July 2025

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