The Town and Country Planning Act 1959 / by T.J. Nardecchia and David Sullivan.

  • Great Britain
Date:
1959
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Town and Country Planning Act 1959 / by T.J. Nardecchia and David Sullivan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    applied universally in an unmodified form. This era of uniformity ended with the passing of the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919 ; (b) secondly, the period from 1919-1939 when as indicated above, dual sets of rules, under respectively the 1919 Act and the Lands Clauses Acts in their final form, were applied side by side ; (c) thirdly, the period from 1939-1947, the years of war and shifting values, during which the instability of the market led, in 1944, to the pegging of compensation, when assessed under the 1919 Act, to pre-war prices existing on 3lst March, 1939 ; (d) fourthly, the period from 6th August, 1947—31st December, 1954, when the development potentialities of land were virtually eliminated from the assessment of compensation for compulsory purchase, following the acquisition of development rights by the State under the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947 ; (e) fifthly, the period from Ist January, 1955-29th October, 1958, when a restricted measure of development value of land reappeared as an element in compensation, but only to the extent to which claims for loss of development value assessed under the 1947 Act, by reference to 1947 values, had been established and had not already been paid out in payments under the 1954 Act. The Lands Clauses (Consolidation) Act, 1845, an ungainly giant (a) The Notice to Treat, which states particulars of the land to be acquired and demands particulars of the owner’s interest in the land and of his claim in respect thereof. This notice compelled the owner to sell, and the owner, in his turn, could originally compel the authority to purchase. The modifications introduced by the 1919 Act now enable an acquiring authority to withdraw any notice to treat within a period of six weeks from the date of receiving the owner’s claim. Where no proper claim is submitted by the owner, the acquiring authority may with- draw the notice to treat within six weeks of assessment of
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