The Planning Blight (Compensation) (Northern Ireland) Order 1981

Blight notice requiring purchase of whole agricultural unit N.I.

9.—(1) Where a blight notice is served in respect of an interest in the whole or part of an agricultural unit and on the date of service that unit or part contains land (in this Order referred to as “the unaffected area”) which does not fall within any of the specified descriptions as well as land which does so, the claimant may include in the notice—

(a) a claim that the unaffected area is not reasonably capable of being farmed, either by itself or in conjunction with other relevant land, as a separate agricultural unit; and

(b) a requirement that the appropriate authority shall purchase his interest in the whole of the unit or, as the case may be, in the whole of the part of it to which the notice relates.

(2) Subject to Article 10(3), “otherwise relevant land” in paragraph (1) means—

(a) land comprised in the remainder of the agricultural unit if the blight notice is served only in respect of part of it;

(b) land comprised in any other agricultural unit occupied by the claimant on the date of service, being land in respect of which he is then entitled to an owner's interest as defined in Article 4(5).