Proposed widening of local authority compulsory purchase powers
A power for an authority to act if it thinks certain circumstances exist has to be wider than a power to act in certain circumstances. Hold on to that thought and you will make bed-time reading of
Whether you will sleep easily after that exercise depends on how you respond to Martin’s fear that the reduced opportunity for objecting to a section 226 CPO can only add to the “democratic deficit” that he finds elsewhere in the Bill.
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Proposed widening of local authority compulsory purchase powers
A power for an authority to act if it thinks certain circumstances exist has to be wider than a power to act in certain circumstances. Hold on to that thought and you will make bed-time reading of Tense relationship Estates Gazette 15 February 2003, p132, where Martin Edwards explains clause 73 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill, which proposes to amend section 226 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.
Whether you will sleep easily after that exercise depends on how you respond to Martin’s fear that the reduced opportunity for objecting to a section 226 CPO can only add to the “democratic deficit” that he finds elsewhere in the Bill.
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PP 2003/18 provides more information on the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill
