The act of depriving an owner of private property for public use.
1 Their homes will not be subject to a compulsory purchase order .
2 If necessary, drastic actions such as compulsory purchase orders should be considered.
3 That can happen years in advance of a compulsory purchase order being made.
4 He claimed that, following a public inquiry, a compulsory purchase order was made.
5 They will be also be given fresh reserve compulsory purchase powers.
6 The compulsory purchase order of land from almost 80 landowners has also been approved.
7 The council is not now proceeding with any compulsory purchase order on New Bermondsey.
8 Some of this land is already under compulsory purchase order.
9 For Richter devotees it has to be a compulsory purchase .
10 Under a conventional compulsory purchase order (CPO), humans do not enjoy this privilege.
11 The road would involve the compulsory purchase of a strip of land on the trust's estate.
12 About 400 landowners will be subject to compulsory purchase orders in Co Limerick and Co Tipperary.
13 Mugabe responded by drafting a new constitution that allowed for the compulsory purchase of land without compensation.
14 Sajid Javid's decision on the Aylesbury compulsory purchase order does not end the policy of estate regeneration.
15 Farmers will meet the National Roads Authority today to resolve a row over the compulsory purchase of farmland.
16 The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has warned he might back compulsory purchase to end so-called land banking.
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