compulsory purchase

Noun

Meaning

compulsory purchase

(law, UK, Ireland) The power of a state to expropriate private land within its jurisdiction for public use.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

eminent domain expropriation compulsory acquisition

Examples

A problem building in the heart of Great Yarmouth is being tackled with a compulsory purchase order. Source: Internet

The first part of the consultant’s work is to support the council in the public inquiry for the market relocation which is likely to be conjoined with the inquiry for compulsory purchase order and the highways stopping up notices. Source: Internet

Cllr Williams added that the council will still be prepared to seek CPO (compulsory purchase order) powers “if these are necessary to take forward the scheme” and only “as a last resort”. Source: Internet

The judge in that case ruled that the Government had considered the appropriate facts when giving the go-ahead to issuing the compulsory purchase order for the Hippodrome. Source: Internet

Planning permission has been granted and compulsory purchase orders have been approved. Source: Internet

The judiciary and human rights advocates fiercely criticised the first amendments enacted in April 1991 because they restored corporal and capital punishment and denied recourse to the courts in cases of compulsory purchase of land by the government. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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