Compulsory Purchase of land for Housing.

[maen]

Cornwall County Council will vote on the principal of Compulsory Purchase of Farm land near Truro for Housing.

Good or Bad?!

 

[teslacoils]

Good.

 

[Forkdriver]

Bad for the landowner who will have their land acquired compulsorily at existing use values.

 

[Nithsdale]

If they outlawed 2nd homes which sit empty, they wouldn't need to build so many new homes

 

[copse]

Good.

As long as it’s not your land ?

 

[lloyd]

Good.

Although the planning system is broken there
is nothing good about compulsory purchase..

 

[Still Farming]

Their'll line the cards up in their favour for F all to landowner.
If you did it you be in prison.

 

[Nearly]

Theft.

 

[celtis man]

Cornwall County Council will vote on the principal of Compulsory Purchase of Farm land near Truro for Housing.

Good or Bad?!

Whereabouts is this?

 

[slackjawedyokel]

Do they compulsorily purchase it at the going rate locally for housing use or agricultural? If the latter, then it seems like theft.

 

[Still Farming]

Do they compulsorily purchase it at the going rate locally for housing use or agricultural? If the latter, then it seems like theft.

If already agri.then bottom book agri value give or take a quid???

 

[Netherfield]

Really screwed a chap round here in the 70s, he had two cousins with an interest in the land, they couldn't force a sale as long as he farmed it.

Council come along and took 50 acres for housing at a little above ag value, he paid his cousins out, then a change of government came and changed the CPO and they'd to offer the land back to original owner, except of course now he hadn't got the money to do so.

 

[David.]

If it belongs to Duchy, good.
If it belongs to a "hardworking farmer", less so....
But seriously, someone other than the forced seller will be doing well out of it, you can bet.

 

[chaffcutter]

Compulsory purchase is legalised theft whoever the landowner is. A true socialist policy.

 

[Speedstar]

Cornwall County Council will vote on the principal of Compulsory Purchase of Farm land near Truro for Housing.

Good or Bad?!

You get 3 times market value for land bought like that

 

[teslacoils]

As long as it’s not your land ?

Depends really.

There are plenty here who have said that utilities are making excess profits and should be nationalised. But those shares were "someone's".

The planning system is broken. But it's broken at both ends. There's a block of land near my local town. Had planning fir years but done nothing.

Freer planning policy, with projects required to start within say 24 months of planning, or compulsory purchase.

House prices are too high. Difference in value between farming and residential too high. Probably linked, I don't know.

I'd suggest that almost all land in a planning envelope would have had a go at getting planning, and those projects that do but the developer holds it to land bank etc should be compulsory purchased.

I'd prefer they just said open season for building.

 

[toquark]

You get 3 times market value for land bought like that

Ag value or housing value? 3x ag value for housing would be a very bad deal

 

[Nithsdale]

Do they compulsorily purchase it at the going rate locally for housing use or agricultural? If the latter, then it seems like theft.

Name your price and they shall pay handsomely

 

[Exfarmer]

I think they have to pay the going rate for the purpose of the CP. so if it is for housing the owner will be well compensated

 

[ollie989898]

How is it legal for a council to force the purchase of land for housing?

For a national infrastructure plan, I could see the government having at least a reasonable reason for compulsory purchase. But a fudging council, half of whom don't know their elbow from their arsh?