Greenweb Ltd v Wandsworth London Borough Council – WLR Daily

Posted August 6th, 2008 in compensation, compulsory purchase, law reports, planning by sally

Greenweb Ltd v Wandsworth London Borough Council; [2008] WLR (D) 286

“On the proper interpretation of ss 14(1) and 15 (3) of the Land Compensation Act 1961 the amount of compensation payable for compulsory acquisition of vacant land on which Victorian houses had stood prior to their destruction during the Second World War should be based on the assumption that planning permission had been granted for specified development even though planning permission for such development had in fact been refused.”

WLR Daily, 5th August 2008

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