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Compulsory Purchase Orders: A method of last resort
Trevor Ivory and Rebecca Buttle give an update on the use of CPOs ‘While regeneration fell out of fashion, central government was increasingly seeing infrastructure investment as a means of keeping UK plc afloat.’ Compulsory purchase powers, the means by which the state can seize the land of private citizens, albeit in return for compensation, …
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- Grafton Group (UK) plc & anor v Secretary of State for Transport & anor [2016] EWCA Civ 561
- Horada & ors v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government & ors [2016] EWCA Civ 169
- Pointe Gourde Quarrying and Transport Co Ltd v Sub-Intendent of Crown Lands [1947] UKPC 71