C1 Part VI Rights of owners etc. to require purchase of interests

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
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Part VI (ss. 137-171): power to modify conferred (10.11.1993) by 1993 c. 28, s. 171(3)(b); S.I. 1993/2762, art. 3

Pt. VI (ss. 137-171) modified (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 20(3), Sch. 5 paras. 15(1), 20 (with ss. 54(5)(7), 55(5), Sch. 17 paras. 22(1), 23(2)); S.I. 1995/3198, art. 4, Sch. 2

Chapter II Interests Affected by Planning Proposals: Blight

Compensation

157 Special provisions as to compensation for acquisitions in pursuance of blight notices.

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Where—

a

an interest in land is acquired in pursuance of a blight notice,

b

the interest is one in respect of which a compulsory purchase order is in force, and

c

the order directs that compensation is to be assessed in accordance with section 14A of the Land Compensation Act 1961,

the compensation payable for the acquisition is to be assessed in accordance with that direction and as if the notice to treat deemed to have been served in respect of the interest under section 154 had been served in pursuance of the compulsory purchase order.

1

Where—

a

an interest in land is acquired in pursuance of a blight notice, and

b

the interest is one in respect of which a compulsory purchase order is in force under section 1 of the M1Acquisition of Land Act 1981, as applied by section 47 of the M2Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990, containing a direction for minimum compensation under section 50 of that Act of 1990,

the compensation payable for the acquisition shall be assessed in accordance with that direction and as if the notice to treat deemed to have been served in respect of the interest under section 154 had been served in pursuance of the compulsory purchase order.

2

Where—

a

an interest in land is acquired in pursuance of a blight notice, and

b

the interest is one in respect of which a compulsory purchase order is in force under section 290 of the M3Housing Act 1985 (acquisition of land for clearance);

the compensation payable for the acquisition shall be assessed in accordance with that Act and as if the notice to treat deemed to have been served in respect of the interest under section 154 had been served in pursuance of the compulsory purchase order.

3

The compensation payable in respect of the acquisition by virtue of section 160 of an interest in land comprised in—

a

the unaffected area of an agricultural unit; or

b

if the appropriate authority have served a counter-notice objecting to the blight notice on the grounds mentioned in section 151(4)(c), so much of the affected area of the unit as is not specified in the counter-notice,

shall be assessed on the assumptions mentioned in section 5(2), (3) and (4) of the M4Land Compensation Act 1973.

4

In subsection (3) the reference to “the appropriate authority” shall be construed as if the unaffected area of an agricultural unit were part of the affected area.