Planning, building and the environment

Circular 06/04: Compulsory Purchase and the Crichel Down Rules

Published 31 October 2004
Type(s) Circular and official letters, Legislation and policy
Site Planning, building and the environment
ISBN 9780117539280
Price £11 (free to download below)

Summary

This circular provides guidance to acquiring local planning authorities in England making compulsory purchase orders to which the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (as amended) applies.

Its aim is to help local planning authorities to use their compulsory purchase powers to best effect and, by advising on the application of the correct procedures and statutory or administrative requirements, to ensure that orders progress quickly and are without defects.

Circular 02/03: Compulsory Purchase Orders is cancelled except to the extent that it is applicable to earlier compulsory purchase orders to which Part 1 of the Memorandum to this circular is not applicable.

The version of the Crichel Down Rules published in 1992 by the Department of the Environment and the Welsh Office is superseded in England (and for certain land in Wales) by the Rules set out in Part 2 of the Memorandum to this circular.

Please note: Paragraphs 46, 48 and 49 of Part 1 of the Memorandum has been revoked and replaced by Circular 03/09: Costs Awards in Appeals and Other Planning Proceedings.

Please note: Appendix C to Part 1 of the Memorandum has been cancelled by Circular 04/10: Compulsory Purchase and the Crichel Down Rules except to the extent that it is applicable to earlier Compulsory Purchase Orders made by English Partnerships (as the Urban Regeneration Agency) prior to 1 December 2008.

Please note: This circular was revised on 9 June 2011 with an Appendix KA inserted between Appendices K and L in Part 1 of the Memorandum. This Appendix relates specifically to requests from voluntary and community organisations, and other third parties.

Note: The above publication was issued by our former department, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM). ODPM became the Department for Communities and Local Government on 5 May 2006 - all references in the text to ODPM now refer to the Department for Communities and Local Government.

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