CPO Talking Heads: January 2025

Preparing for the Planning and Infrastructure Bill

This event runs as an informal discussion with a small panel of leading and informed practitioners extracting the nuances from this months topic "Preparing for the Planning and Infrastructure Bill". It will discuss practical issues that arise, with participants in the meeting being encouraged to listen, join in, ask questions and share comments.

The CPA have partnered with CPT Events to bring you CPO Talking Heads.

Start Date	Venue	Price
30 January 2025	Virtual Monthly Discussion	£50	BOOK

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

Event duration: 1.5 Hour Topical Panel Discussion.
Registration from: 12.55. Event starts at: 13.00. Event finishes at: 14.30 (Please note new finish time).

Booking Note for CPA Members: The CPA discount code needs to be added during the booking process, followed by selecting 'invoice' to complete your booking.

January's Discussion: Preparing for the Planning and Infrastructure Bill

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has launched a consultation on proposed compulsory purchase process and compensation reforms for England and Wales, in the shadow of the forthcoming Planning and Infrastructure Bill, expected in 2025. The consultation seeks views on technical reforms aimed at making the compulsory purchase process quicker, reducing costs, and changing some compensation rules. Key proposals in the consultation include:

Expanding the power to remove 'hope value' from compensation assessments for certain categories of land
Technical reforms to streamline the CPO process and reduce costs, such as allowing electronic service of notices and simplifying newspaper notices
Allowing inspectors to make decisions on CPO confirmations with directions to remove hope value
Rectifying errors in CPOs
Changing some of the rules around temporary possession powers
Changes to Loss Payments

These proposals are part of the government's commitment to further reform compulsory purchase compensation rules to improve land assembly, speed up site delivery, and deliver housing and other benefits in the public interest.

This CPO Talking Heads session will provide an opportunity to analyse these proposals in depth and discuss their potential implications for the compulsory purchase process. This will be a helpful discussion in advance of the consultation closing on 13 February 2025.

January's Talking Heads

Toni Weston, Partner, Gowlings WLG (UK) LLP
Michele Vas, Counsel, Dentons
John Sayer, Head of Regeneration, Ardent; Chair of The CPA
Andrew Ward, Lead on Compulsory Purchase Policy and Reform, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities