As Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance, Corporate and Traded services, I agree to:
1. Exercise the Council’s powers granted by section 203 of the Housing and Planning Act 2016 (“Section 203”) to override restrictive covenants relating to Land on the South Side of Seal Road (TT47148) and adjacent site occupied by Trinity School and Tunbridge Wells Grammar School (K971987) as necessary to facilitate the implementation of planning permission ref KCC/SE/0045/2021: “New external sports facilities - comprising of two multi-use games areas and two all-weather floodlit pitches on the existing school playing fields, and change of use of an area of land to the east of the school site to grass playing field, together with associated landscaping and access works”
2. To delegate authority to the Director of Infrastructure, in consultation with the Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance, Corporate and Traded services, to formalise terms and authorise the execution of any necessary or desirable legal documentation to give effect to the above decision.
3. To delegate authority to the Director of Infrastructure, in consultation with the Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance, Corporate and Traded services, to finalise the terms of any compensation agreement in relation to Kent County Council exercising its statutory powers to override the restrictive covenants in relation to the implementation of the planning permission.