The Law of Compulsory Purchase

Being spread across several statutes of varying antiquity and many judicial decisions, compulsory purchase and compensation law can appear daunting. This authoritative book is your single accessible volume to this complex and wide-ranging area of the law.

The Law of Compulsory Purchase sets out the practice, procedure, policy and valuation of a compulsory purchase and allows you to find the answers you need quickly and easily.

It provides a summarised statement of the law and contains full cross-referencing to the relevant cases, statutory provisions and policy circulars. It also includes a full explanation of the scope of powers to acquire land compulsorily and the exercise of the powers and principles of compensation.

The practical structure and style ensures that the relevant statutory provisions and cases to the matters in issue are easy to find. It both simplifies what can be simplified and explains with clarity the difficult areas.

This book should be on the desk of every practitioner who has to advise upon this branch of law and every advocate who has to present a case in which it arises.

Guy Roots QC, Francis Taylor Building Guy specialises in town and country planning, environment, compulsory purchase and compensation, rating and valuation, and other local government and administrative law subjects. Richard Honey, Francis Taylor Building Richard practises as a barrister in the fields of public law and environmental law, with particular specialisms in judicial review and High Court statutory challenges, infrastructure projects, compulsory purchase, compensation and land valuation, and commons and village greens. Robert Fookes, Francis Taylor Building Robert's practice covers all aspects of land, planning, environmental and local government law, rating, judicial review and statutory challenges. Clients range from major commercial developers and local authorities, to residents' action group. James Pereira QC, Francis Taylor Building James specialises in planning, environmental, local government and administrative law, compulsory purchase and compensation. In 2017 he was nominated as Real Estate, Environment and Planning Silk of the Year by the Legal 500 Bar Awards and ranked in the top 10 planning silks in the 2017 Planning Magazine review of the UK planning bar.