Compulsory Purchase in UK Law
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Smith v East Elloe Rural District Council
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But this argument is in reality a play on the meaning of the word nullity. An Order, even if not made in good faith, is still an act capable of legal consequences. Unless the necessary proceedings are taken at law to establish the cause of invalidity and to get it quashed or otherwise upset it will remain as effective for its ostensible purpose as the most impeccable of Orders.
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Sovmots Investments Ltd v Secretary of State for the Environment; Brompton Securities Ltd v Secretary of State for the Environment
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(3) Although no question of common intention arises, one must construe the compulsory purchase order and ascertain the intention of the acquiring authority. Camden must have intended to acquire the rights here in question, without which it would be impossible for the maisonettes to be used as houses.
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Waters and Others v Welsh Development Agency
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Parliament cannot have intended that the acquiring authority should pay as compensation a larger amount than the owner could reasonably have obtained for his land in the absence of the power. For the same reason there should also be disregarded the 'special want' of an acquiring authority for a particular site which arises from the authority having been authorised to acquire it.
Drawing a distinction between value to the owner and value to the purchaser makes it necessary to distinguish the one from the other. What is relevant, because this may affect the value of the land, is the use the acquiring authority proposes to make of the land it is acquiring. Accordingly, in identifying any enhanced value which must be disregarded it is always necessary to look beyond the mere existence of the power of compulsory purchase.
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Woolfson v Strathclyde Regional Council
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I have some doubts whether in this respect the Court of Appeal properly applied the principle that it is appropriate to pierce the corporate veil only where special circumstances exist indicating that is a mere facade concealing the true facts. Woolfson cannot be treated as beneficially entitled to the whole share-holding in Campbell, since it is not found that the one share in Campbell held by his wife is held as his nominee.
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Fairmount Investments Ltd v Secretary of State for the Environment
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But in this case I am unable, consonant with the essential principles of fairness in a dispute, to uphold this compulsory purchase order. All cases in which principles of natural justice are invoked must depend on the particular circumstances of the cases. I can only say that in my opinion, in the circumstances I have outline, Fairmount has not had—in a phrase whose derivation neither I nor your Lordships could trace—a fair crack of the whip.
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Rugby Joint Water Board v Shaw-Fox ; Rugby Joint Water Board v Foottit
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"The principles upon which compensation is assessed when land is taken under compulsory powers are well settled. South Eastern Railway Co. v. London County Council [1915] 2 Ch. 252 C.A. At page 258 Eve J. said "The legislature was aware of the general principle that, in assessing compensation for compulsory acquisition of a defined parcel of land, you do not take into account an increase in value of that parcel of land if the increase is entirely due to the scheme involving the acquisition.
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Compulsory purchase
Purpose: – The purpose of this paper is to review the economic theories that lie behind the assessment of compulsory purchase compensation and the issues that arise from them. Design/methodology/a...
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Compulsory purchase and compensation update – 2015
Purpose: – The purpose of this paper is to provide a summary and analysis of recent legal decisions relating to compensation for compulsory purchase. Design/methodology/approach: – The paper summa...
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Compulsory purchase and compensation update – 2016
Purpose: – The purpose of this paper is to summarise and analyse reforms to the compulsory purchase compensation code which have been published for consultation by the Department for Communities an...
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Compulsory purchase and compensation update – 2013
Purpose: Annual update on caselaw relating to compulsory purchase and compensation. This paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach: Research of decisions made by the Court of...