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Upskilling Module 3: Land Cost Estimates, access for preparatory work, Blight notices & acquisitions

Equipping professionals with essential knowledge and skills in the compulsory purchase sector.

CPT Events have created a series of 10 training modules, comprising lectures and group discussions, which, when combined, form a route to competency in compulsory purchase law and practice for practitioners and professional advisors. This is module 1 of the programme.

Module Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes 

Recorded: 25/11/2024

Areas covered

Establishing the land take area

  • Importance of land referencing & having a dedicated team doing the work
  • Land referencing underpins the project and interacts with planning the scheme
  • The Book of Reference
  • The scope of the work - land owners, rights of access, 3rd party access
  • Why do you need the land, how do you treat it
  • What comes first design or land take
  • Adaptability 

Access for surveys

  • Importance of engagement and negotiations
  • Use of licences, best practice to pay (factored into PCE?), 
  • Brief look at statutory powers of entry under s172, Housing and Planning Act
  • Warrant of entry proceedings in the Magistrates’ Court
  • Requirement to make good damage caused 
  • RAG matrix and its value

Property Cost Estimates

  • What goes into a PCE?  All are PCEs the same
  • How valuable is the PCE?
  • The interaction between the PCE and the land take
  • Amendment to the land due to financial high risk areas found in the PCE
  • Should PCEs account for Part 1 claims and the potential for blight

Blight

  • Brief look at generalised blight v statutory blight

Negotiations

  • Importance of negotiation
  • Approach to negotiations - the unique nature of dealing with an unwilling seller and an all power purchaser 
  • Problems of statutory undertaker land and Crown land, mistaken use of “without prejudice”
  • AA picking up negotiation costs (either through settlement agreement, compensation or Tribunal routes), early access licences
  • The benefit of early agreement of cost agreements
  • Dealing with legal costs associated with negotiation

Speakers