Pointe Gourde Quarrying and Transport Co Ltd v Sub-Intendent of Crown Lands [1947] UKPC 71

Planning Update: A complex process

Michele Vas explores current approaches to assessing compensation in the context of CPOs ‘Disregarding the value arising from the CPO scheme and the value arising from the application of planning assumptions is not an easy task.’ The promotion of nationally significant infrastructure projects such as HS2, Crossrail and garden cities, together with the recent (and …

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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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Fracking: Trespass and compulsory acquisition

Is Bocardo a new weapon in the armoury of fracking objectors? Andrew Ryan investigates ‘In this challenging environment of increasing opposition to shale gas extraction, the current statutory framework, intended to facilitate exploitation of the Crown’s mineral reserves, potentially becomes a millstone around the fracking industry’s neck.’ Back in 2010, the UK oil and gas …

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