Compulsory purchase orders

12 April 2022

Dear                  ,

ATISN 16143

I wrote to you on 17 March regarding your request for information regarding Compulsory Purchase Orders for Road Schemes in Wales.

Information requested

You asked:

1. Can you provide the number of houses purchased under compulsory purchase orders for each of the road schemes under review?

2. Can you provide the cost of each home, the year they were purchased and whether they have been sold or not?

Our Response

I can confirm the Welsh Government holds some of the information captured by your request. For question one, the Flintshire Corridor Improvements scheme has replaced the old A55/A494 Ewloe Interchange scheme. Property number 3 in Ewloe was originally purchased in 1996 for the original scheme and is now part of the Flintshire Corridor Scheme under review.

For question two, property number 3 was originally purchased in 1996, however, we do not hold any information on the purchase price. This information pre-dates our electronic filing system and any paper records we may have held are no longer available to us.

Next steps

If you are dissatisfied with the Welsh Government’s handling of your request, you can ask for an internal review within 40 working days of the date of this response. Requests for an internal review should be addressed to the Welsh Government’s Freedom of Information Officer at:

Information Rights Unit, 
Welsh Government,
Cathays Park, 
Cardiff, 
CF10 3NQ 
or Email: Freedom.ofinformation@gov.wales

Please remember to quote the ATISN reference number above.

You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

Information Commissioner’s Office, 
Wycliffe House, 
Water Lane, 
Wilmslow, 
Cheshire, 
SK9 5AF

However, please note that the Commissioner will not normally investigate a complaint until it has been through our own internal review process.

Yours sincerely