Compulsory Purchase in UK Law

  • Smith v East Elloe Rural District Council
    • House of Lords
    • 26 March 1956
    ...... further trespass, and ( c ) a declaration that a certain Compulsory Purchase Order dated the 27th August, 1948, was "wrongfully made and in ......
  • R (Alconbury Developments Ltd) v Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
    • House of Lords
    • 09 May 2001
    ...... orders were published on 17 February 2000 followed by a draft compulsory purchase order on 24 February 2000. Following objections the Secretary of ......
  • Woodar Investment Development Ltd v Wimpey Construction U.K. Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 14 February 1980
    ......The purchase price was £850,000 and there was a special condition (Condition I) that ...] (iii) Any Authority having a statutory power of compulsory acquisition shall have commenced to negotiate for the acquisition by ......
  • D.H.N. Food Distributors Ltd v Tower Hamlets London Borough Council
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 04 March 1976
    ...... years later in 1969 the London Borough of Tower Hamlets made a compulsory purchase order. They wanted to acquire the property of the firm, to ......
  • Attorney-General v Blake (pet. all.)
    • House of Lords
    • 27 July 2000
    ...... or, which comes to the same, the price payable for the compulsory acquisition of a right. This analysis is correct. The court's refusal to ... is that there has either actually or in effect been a compulsory purchase of the plaintiff's right of refusal. (The award of damages in tort for the ......
  • Woolfson v Strathclyde Regional Council
    • House of Lords
    • 15 February 1978
    ...... for Scotland upon a question relating to compensation for the compulsory acquisition of land. . 5The facts of the case, as set out in the ...A compulsory purchase order made in 1966 by Glasgow Corporation, the respondents' predecessors ......
  • London & Clydeside Estates Ltd v Aberdeen District Council
    • House of Lords
    • 08 November 1979
    ...... effect that where Parliament prescribes that an authority with compulsory powers should inform the subject of his right to question those powers, ... County Council were an authority possessing powers of compulsory purchase. On 9th September 1974 a firm of architects acting for the appellants ......
  • British Transport Commission v Gourley
    • House of Lords
    • 08 December 1955
    ...... a case in which the question arose as to the compensation for compulsory acquisition of property. It was therefore necessary for the Court to ... apply in certain computations of compensation under compulsory purchase orders. We were referred to an Irish case, Comyn v. The Attorney-General ......
  • John Hudson & Company, Ltd v Kirkness (HM Inspector of Taxes)
    • House of Lords
    • 05 May 1955
    ...... to undertakers or to central or local authorities powers of compulsory acquisition and it is true enough that these powers are commonly referred to as powers of compulsory purchase and the transaction is sometimes referred to as a compulsory sale. Faced ......
  • Allen v Gulf Oil Refining Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 29 January 1981
    ...... (2) The powers of compulsory acquisition of land under this section shall cease after the expiration of ...As an alternative to compulsory purchase, the appellants are by section 7(1) given power to acquire compulsorily ......
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