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The highways committee is asked to approve the draft scheme, side road orders and bridge scheme and rubber-stamp the submission of a full business case to the DfT, as well as authorising local officers to press on with preparing land assembly. Only one residential property needs to be bought, and this has been achieved through negotiation. The remaining £48.5m is to come from the DfT’s ”Large Local Majors” grant funding programme, the project’s outline business case being accepted in 2017 for this status.Īlthough the council is having to pay its £25.5m share now, it has already made back £7.8m in Section 106 developer contributions, the report said.ĬPO powers will be used as a last resort, said officers – the council has initiated discussions with landowners to acquire by agreement where possible, but recognises it may need to wield compulsory purchase to make such a wide-ranging land assembly programme come together. The medium-term financial strategy makes provision for this, earmarking £25.5m in the approved capital programme. The CPO plan, side road order and bridge scheme will now be examined by Cheshire East’s highways & transport committee at its meeting on 9 December, with officers hoping for sign-off ahead of submission to the Department for Transport.Īs the report for committee sets out, the council’s overall expenditure on the project is expected to be £74m. However, it was subsequently noted that that order did not include a Bridge Scheme, to allow a highway bridge to be erected over the Trent & Mersey Canal, leading to the orders being withdrawn in September. Planning permission was secured in 2019 for the 2.6km bypass, setting in motion the approval by Cheshire East’s cabinet approving CPO powers and a side road order, as advanced in 2020, this summer. Long regarded as a critical piece of infrastructure for the borough, the bypass’s construction will require the assembly of 129 acres, with 21 freeholds and 14 leaseholds affected. Local sign-off is sought for orders to enable the long-awaited Middlewich Eastern bypass, which will then go to the Department for Transport for final approval.