High Speed 2 Railway Line: Chesham and Amersham
(asked on 14th January 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many applications for the High Speed 2 (a) need to sell scheme and (b) exceptional hardship scheme have been received from constituents in Chesham and Amersham constituency; how many of those applications have been completed with the property now in the ownership of the Government or HS2 Ltd; how many of those properties in the ownership of the Government or HS2 Ltd have been (i) sold, (ii) rented and (iii) remain vacant; for how many of those applications that have been accepted the price has not been agreed; how many of those applications are awaiting a decision on whether they will be accepted; how many of those applications have been rejected; and of those rejected how many times each such application has been rejected and for what reasons.
The information requested is in the table below:
Chesham and Amersham constituency | ||
(a) Need to Sell (NTS) scheme | (b) Exceptional Hardship Scheme (EHS) | |
Applications received | 34 | 49 |
Applications accepted | 17 | 12 |
Applications rejected | 8 | 31 |
Applications withdrawn | 1 | 6 |
Applications pending a final decision | 8 | 0 |
offers made | 12 | 12 |
offers accepted | 10 | 9 |
offers declined/no longer active | 0 | 3 |
Properties acquired | 6 | 9 |
How many of those properties in the ownership of the Government or HS2 Ltd have been: | ||
(i) sold | 0 | |
(ii) rented | 10 (with 2 under offer) | |
(iii) remain vacant | 3 | |
(a) Need to Sell (NTS) scheme | (b) Exceptional Hardship Scheme (EHS) | |
Total number of unsuccessful applications (of which were reapplications) | 8 (1) | 31 (5)* |
Unsuccessful for reasons including criterion 1 (Property Type) | 1 | 1 |
Unsuccesful for reasons including criterion 2 (Location of property) | 2 | 18 |
Unsuccesful for reasons including criterion 3 (Effort to Sell and impact of blight) | 3 | 23 |
Unsuccesful for reasons including criterion 4 (No prior knowledge) | 0 | 0 |
Unsuccesful for reasons including criterion 5 (NTS-Compelling reason to sell/EHS- Exceptional Hardship) | 6 | 25 |
*of the five rejected reapplications none are from the same applicant.