Tottenham Hotspur Football Club has received confirmation that Archway Steel will not be appealing a high court defeat last month in the company’s legal challenge to the compulsory purchase order that will secure land needed for the team’s new stadium, N17.
A statement on the club’s website said: “The club has received confirmation that Archway Steel will not be applying to the Court of Appeal for permission to appeal the high court’s decision last month to refuse its legal challenge of the compulsory purchase order.
“The next step will be to vest the land in Haringey council’s ownership and to agree the compensation amount payable to Archway.
“We shall also continue to seek to reach an agreement with Archway by private treaty.”
In February, Justice Dove rejected the challenge brought by Archway, which operates its business from two plots within the area covered by the CPO, near Spurs’ existing White Hart Lane stadium.
Archway had attacked the communities secretary’s decision last year to confirm the CPO made by the London borough of Haringey in March 2012, to acquire the land needed for the second and third phases of the Northumberland Development Project.
Phase one, a superstore development, was well under way by the time the CPO was confirmed. Phase two is the 56,250-seat new stadium, for which planning permission was granted in 2011, while phase three is a mixed-use development including residential.
