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Overriding Easements and other Rights: Possible amendment to Section 237 Town and Country Planning Act 1990 The Government is consulting on a possible change to the law concerning the compulsory purchase of land subject to easements and other third party rights. It proposes extending the power in s.237 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 which enables acquiring authorities/developers to override easements and other restrictions on land acquired under compulsory purchase powers during the period the works are being carried out so as to extinguish those restrictions altogether. The CLA believes this change is unnecessary. The owner of land subject to third party rights already has a variety of options, all of which take into account the interests of the beneficiary of the rights. There is no reason why an acquiring authority or developer should not be required to make use of them in the same way as any other landowner. |
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Christopher Price is the Director Policy and Advice at the CLA. He has overall responsibility for managing all the CLA's national policy and advisory work. He makes sure that the organisation's policy work is focused on what matters most, and that members' queries are dealt with accurately and efficiently. A planning and environmental lawyer by background, he joined the CLA as public law adviser in 2002. He became Chief Legal Advisor in 2007 and took up his current post a year later. Before coming to the CLA Christopher worked in local government for a number of different authorities.
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