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Summary

Communities and Local Government's predecessor Departments (ODPM, DTLR and DETR) worked with the Law Commission from 2000 to consider the scope for modernising the law relating to compulsory purchase procedures and compensation.

This paper forms the culmination of that process. It set out the Government's response to the Commission's Final Report: Towards a Compulsory Purchase Code, which was published in two instalments. The first Final Report, on Compensation (Law Com No 286), was presented to Parliament in December 2003. The second, on Procedures (Law Com No 291), was presented in December 2004.

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

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