Compulsory purchase orders: draft circular - A consultation paper

Publication Year

2004

Document Status

Withdrawn

Abstract

Provides guidance to acquiring authorities in England making compulsory purchase orders to which the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (as amended) applies. Its aim is to help them to use their compulsory purchase powers to best effect and, by advising on the application of the correct procedures and statutory or administrative requirements, to ensure that orders progress quickly and are without defects.

Document History

To be read with - DoE Circular 8/93: Awards of costs incurred in planning and other (including compulsory purchase order) proceedings (DoE, 1993). DoT Local Authority Circular 2/97 (DoT, 1997). PPG 15: Planning and the historic environment (DoE, 1994). Superseded by ODPM Circular 06/2004 'Compulsory purchase and the crichel Down rules' (ODPM, 2004).

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