The High Court will rule on Friday in a legal challenge to the communities secretary’s decision to confirm a compulsory purchase order vital to plans for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club’s new stadium.
Dove J will give an oral decision on Friday after hearing the case over two days. Landowner Archway Sheet Metal Works, which faces losing its site under the CPO, hopes the judge will quash the decision and order a reconsideration of the CPO.
Archway claims that the CPO was not lawfully made by the London Borough of Haringey in March 2012, because earlier preconditions set down by the borough’s cabinet had not been met, and that the council and Spurs had discussed major changes to the planned scheme without informing the secretary of state ahead of the confirmation the decision.
But lawyers for Spurs, Haringey and the secretary of state maintained that the decision was lawful and should stand.
The CPO was approved last July for the Northumberland Park Development scheme, phase 2 of which includes the new 56,250 capacity stadium for Spurs, for which planning permission was secured in 2011.
Tottenham hopes to move into the new stadium in time for the 2018/19 season.
Archway Sheet Metal Works Ltd v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Planning Court (Dove J) 18 February 2014
