Decision Nº ACQ 29 2006. Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber), 03-06-2008

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
JudgeGeorge Bartlett QC PresidentMr Andrew J Trott FRICS
Date03 June 2008
CourtUpper Tribunal (Lands Chamber)
Judgement NumberACQ 29 2006
ACQ/212/2005
ACQ/29/2006
LANDS TRIBUNAL ACT 1949
COMPENSATION – compulsory purchase – preliminary issue – claimants claiming interest in
land acquired but not served with notice to treat – whether Lands Tribunal has jurisdiction to
determine claim – held notice to treat not pre-requisite of claim – held Lands Tribunal can
determine issue of title – Lands Tribunal Act 1949 ss 1, 3, Land Compensation Act 1961 s 1,
Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 ss 5, 6, 10, 22
IN THE MATTER OF TWO NOTICES OF REFERENCE
BETWEEN UNION RAILWAYS (NORTH) First
LIMITED Claimant
and
LONDON & CONTINENTAL Second
RAILWAYS LIMITED Claimant
and
KENT COUNTY COUNCIL Acquiring
Authority
Re: Grassland, Scrub, Woodland, Reedbeds,
part of the River Ebbsfleet, in the Ebbsfleet Valley, Kent
Before: The President and Mr A J Trott FRICS
Sitting at Procession House, 10 New Bridge Street, London EC4V 6JL
on 19 and 20 December 2007
Guy Roots QC and James Pereira instructed by Cripps Harries Hall LLP of Tunbridge Wells for
the claimants
Barry Denyer-Green and Philip Sissons instructed by Barlow Lyde & Gilbert for the acquiring
authority
© CROWN COPYRIGHT 2008
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The following cases are referred to in this decision:
R v Committee Men for South Holland Drainage (1838) 8 A & E 429
Stone v Commercial Rly Co (1839) 4 My & Cr 122
Tower v Eastern Counties Rly (1843) 3 Rail Cas 374
Adams v London and Blackwall Rly Co (1850) 2 Mac & G 118
R v London & North Western Rly Co (1854) 23 LJQB 185
Salisbury (Marquis of) v Great Northern Rly Co (1858) 28 LJCP 40
Stockton & Darlington Rly Co v Brown [1860] 9 HLC 246
Martin v London, Chatham & Dover Rly Co (1866) LR 1 Ch App 501
Abrahams v Mayor of London (1868) LR 6 Eq 625
Hammersmith Rly Co v Brand (1869) LR 4 HL 171
R v St Luke’s, Chelsea (ex p Flight) (1871) LR 6 QB 572
R v Great Northern Rly Co (1876) 2 QBD 151
Ecclesiastical Commissioners v Commissioners for Sewers for City of London (1880) 14 Ch D 305
R v Edwards (1884) 13 QBD 586
Tiverton & North Devon Rly Co v Loosemore (1884) 9 App Cas 480
Davidson’s Trustees v Caledonian Rly Co (1894) 21 R 1060
Caledonian Rly Co v Davidson [1903] AC 22
Frank Warr & Co Ltd v London County Council [1904] 1 KB 713
Goodwin Foster Brown Ltd v Derby Corpn [1934] 2 KB 23
Horn v Sunderland Corpn [1941] 2 KB 26
Oppenheimer v Minister of Transport [1942] 1 KB 242
Re Purkiss’ Application [1962] 1 WLR 902
Mountgarret v Claro Water Board (1963) 15 P & CR 53
Argyle Motors (Birkenhead) Ltd v Birkenhead Corpn [1975] AC 99
Duttons Brewery Ltd v Leeds City Council (1980) 42 P & CR 152
R v Heron [1982] 1 All ER 993
Hillingdon LBC v ARC Ltd [1999] Ch 139
Clift v Welsh Office [1999] 1 WLR 796
Wildtree Hotels Ltd v Harrow LBC [2001] 2 AC 1
Westminster City Council v Ocean Leisure Ltd [2005] 1 P & CR 450
Moto Hospitality Ltd v Secretary of State for Transport [2007] EWCA Civ 764
The following further cases were referred to in argument:
Broadbent v The Imperial Gaslight Company (1857) 26 LJ Ch 227
King v Wycombe Rly (1860) 29 LJ Ch 462
Haynes v Haynes (1861) 1 Dr & Sm 426
Bird v Great Eastern Rly Co (1865) 34 LJCP 366
Ricket v Metropolitan Rly Co (1867) LR 2 HL 175
Harding v Metropolitan Rly Co (1870) LR 7 154
Metropolitan Board of Works v McCarthy (1874) LR 7 HL 243
Clark v School Board for London (1884) 27 ChD 639
Shepherd v Norwich Corpn (1885) 30 ChD 553
Mercer v Liverpool, St Helens and South Lancashire Rly Co [1904] AC 461
Re Richard v Great Western Rly Co [1905] 1 KB 68
Swallow and Pearson v Middlesex County Council [1953] 1 WLR 422
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