Section 194 and Schedule 9: Use of land: power to override easements and other rights
310.Subsection (1) of section 194 introduces Schedule 9 which amends section 237 of TCPA 1990 so as to authorise a local authority to override easements and other rights restricting the use of land, which it has acquired or appropriated for planning purposes. The local authority can do this only if the use is in accordance with planning permission. Under section 237 it is already possible for a local authority, in these circumstances, to override easements and other rights restricting the execution of works on land.
311.Compensation will be payable for an interference with or a breach of an easement or other rights under this provision.
312.Schedule 9 also makes corresponding amendments to equivalent provisions in other legislation and subsections (2) to (5) of section 194 confer on the Welsh Ministers the power to make corresponding amendments to the Welsh Development Agency Act 1975.