Baroness Andrews, past-Chair of English Heritage, has lodged an amendment to England’s Neighbourhood Planning Bill that, in the right circumstances would require a local authority ‘exercise its powers to compulsorily acquire the relevant building’
The Bill is described as ‘A Bill to make provision about planning and compulsory purchase; and for connected purposes.’ The proposal is to insert after Clause 13 the following new Clause:
‘Compulsory acquisition: payments from charitable trusts involved in conservation’
In a case where–
(a) a local planning authority has the power to compulsorily acquire a listed building or a building in a conservation area; and
(b) a charitable trust whose objectives include the conservation of such property has given an obligation by deed to the local authority to pay to the local planning authority the costs of such acquisition;
the planning authority must exercise its powers to compulsorily acquire the relevant building’.
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