Compulsory purchase and compensation
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Stoke-on-Trent City Council v Wood Mitchell & Co Ltd
Compensation for compulsory acquisition–Disturbance compensation–Appeal from Lands Tribunal–Temporary loss of income–Whether compensation should be reduced to take account of corporation tax which would have been payable–Applicability of ‘West Suffolk County…
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Bird and another v Wakefield Metropolitan District Council
Compensation for compulsory acquisition–Application of ‘Pointe Gourde’ principle–Question as to what scheme underlay acquisition–Whether acquiring authority’s own scheme of compulsory purchase for industrial development or much wider county council scheme…
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R v Northumbrian Water Ltd, ex parte Able UK Ltd
Compulsory acquisition — Whether acquiring authority can withdraw notice to treat after taking possession — Advance payment — Determination of parties’ rights after withdrawal of notice to treat
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Knibb and another v National Coal Board
Coal Mining (Subsidence) Act 1957 — Jurisdiction of Lands Tribunal to award interest as from the date when a cause of action for compensation by way of damages arose under…
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London Welsh Association Ltd and another v Secretary of State for the Environment and another
Compulsory purchase order by Camden Borough Council on listed houses in bad state of disrepair–Application by owners to quash Secretary of State’s confirmation of order–Alternative schemes put forward by owners…
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BP Petroleum Developments Ltd v Ryder and others
Mines (Working Facilities and Support) Act 1966 — First application under Act in respect of the exploitation of petroleum — Application by BP Petroleum Developments Ltd as plaintiffs for grant…
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Hertfordshire County Council v Ozanne and others
Compensation for compulsory acquisition of land — Value of ‘ransom strip’ — Third stage in this litigation, Lands Tribunal, Court of Appeal, House of Lords — Whether rule (3) in…
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Elliott and others v Southwark London Borough Council
Development area–Council’s CPO followed by owners’ applications for rehabilitation orders–Council entitled, in refusing rehabilitation, to say merely that their policy was to demolish existing properties and put up new housing…
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Vassily v Secretary of State for the Environment
Compulsory purchase for rehabilitation–Objector, a builder, seeks to carry out his own conversion–Secretary of State entitled to say council could do it better–Judge nevertheless thinks it a pity that owner-occupiers…
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London & Clydeside Estates Ltd v Aberdeen City Council and another
Compensation for compulsory acquisition–Certificate of alternative development–Certificate issued by the local planning authority failed to include the statement of the applicants’ rights of appeal required by the relevant statutory instrument–Effect…
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Service Welding Ltd v Tyne and Wear County Council
Compensation for acquisition of factory by agreement–Compulsory purchase basis of compensation–Claimants in order to mitigate loss purchased an alternative site and erected new factory–Main items of compensation agreed but dispute…
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Procter & Gamble Ltd v Secretary of State for the Environment and others
Compulsory purchase order — Whether compulsory purchase order confirmed for a purpose different from that for which it was made — Whether confirming authorities had had regard to an irrelevant…