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Compulsory Purchase and Compensation - Best and Effective Practice

It is aimed primarily at experienced practitioners. 

This programme will provide up to date information and guidance for surveyors, lawyers, and other practitioners on current compulsory purchase and compensation law and practice. 

Start Date Venue Price  
9 February 2016 Village Hotel, Solihull    
2 March 2016 Womble Bond Dickinson LLP, Bristol    
10 March 2016 Squire Patton Boggs, Manchester    
7 April 2016 London    
12 September 2016 Cardiff    
20 September 2016 London    

Note: All prices are to be paid in GBP and are subject to VAT at the prevailing rate

Event duration: Day Event (Lunch Included), 6 hours CPD.
Registration from: 9.00. Event starts at: 9.30. Event finishes at: 16.45.

The need to regenerate and develop national infrastructure and provide more housing are the Government's priority, with schemes such as HS2 and Crossrail 2 in the pipeline. The National Infrastructure Commission was announced in October 2015 and commercial developments which were mothballed during the recession, are now being revisited.

Workload and demands for relevant professional skills will very soon outweigh available experience, and it is essential that all practitioners are fully equipped to deal with the demands on their professional knowledge and services. Furthermore, law and best practice have changed over the last few years and are continuing to evolve; and the Housing and Planning Bill is bringing in yet more changes. 

This programme will equip property, planning and legal advisors, acting for acquiring authorities and claimants, with knowledge of the current (and emerging) law and practice and how best to apply it.

Speakers

Programme

Making and Confirming a CPO

  • Key issues on drafting
  • Common mistakes you don’t want to make
  • Formulating the statement of reasons
  • Rights
  • Inquiries, tactics and risks
  • Lessons from the DCO process
  • The Revised Circular – has it changed anything?

Compensation Principles – Land Value

  • Heads of claim overview
  • What is open market value in respect of CPO compensation?
  • The hypothetical willing seller
  • Who is the hypothetical purchaser?
  • What is the “no scheme world”? – Pointe Gourde, s.6 and s.9.
  • Development and hope value – planning assumptions then and now
  • Marriage value
  • Ransom value
  • Open market value and injurious affection

CPO Implementation

  • GVD vs NTT
  • Implementation by agreement –what to watch out for
  • Temporary possession model clauses – variations and implications, need for reform

Disturbance Theory and Practice

  • Disturbance and other losses – is there an entitlement?
  • Preparing the ground – actions prior to acquisition and the duty to mitigate
  • Evidencing the claim
  • Quantum of claim – does the claimant get full compensation?
  • Losses prior to the valuation date
  • The value for money presumption
  • Payments where no interest is acquired

Blight, Hardship Schemes and HS2

  • Is the property ‘blighted’?
  • What are the statutory remedies?
  • What if there isn’t one?
  • Compensation for ‘blight’ – acquisitions and pre-acquisition losses
  • Hardship schemes – HS2

Reforms in the Housing and Planning Bill and what they mean in practice

  • Right to enter and survey land
  • Confirmation and time limits
  • Vesting declarations procedure
  • Possession following NTT or GVD
  • Advance payments
  • Statutory interest
  • Material detriment
  • Challenges to a CPO
  • Powers to override easements

Case law update