11th March 2026

Cabinet Meeting
AGENDA
Conference Room 1
Fred Perry House
Stockport

Meeting: Tuesday, 17 March 2026
Business 6.00 pm

Councillors are set to decide whether to exclude the public from part of an upcoming meeting while they discuss two sensitive items linked to major regeneration plans in Stockport.

Members will first consider whether it is in the public interest to move into a private session under provisions of the Local Government Act 1972, which allows certain information to be withheld where it relates to financial or business affairs.

Two agenda items have been classified as exempt under Category 3, covering information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person or organisation, including the local authority itself.

The first item concerns a report on proposals for a temporary bus depot connected to the Stockport 8 development. The depot arrangements are expected to support the early stages of the large regeneration scheme planned close to the railway viaduct and town centre.

The Stockport 8 project forms part of wider regeneration plans and is expected to deliver around 1,300 new homes alongside commercial space and public areas in the coming years.

In order for construction to begin, the existing bus depot serving the area is expected to be relocated temporarily while long-term arrangements are put in place.

A second confidential item relates to a proposed Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) for land and Arches 7–8 on Viaduct Street, Stockport. Compulsory purchase powers allow councils to acquire land needed for public projects where agreements with landowners cannot be reached through negotiation.

The land acquisition is understood to be linked to development and infrastructure changes around the viaduct area, which sits at the centre of the planned regeneration zone.

Because both matters involve potential land deals, valuations and commercial negotiations, the council says the reports contain information that is “not for publication”.

Before moving into private session, councillors must first decide whether excluding the public is justified and consider any representations received in response to the notice of exempt business.

Any decisions taken will still be formally recorded, even if the detailed discussions take place without members of the public or press present.