The government publishes its response to the consultation (which ran until 13/02/2025) relating to compulsory purchase …

The government has published the following response to the consultation titled "Compulsory Purchase Process and Compensation Reforms - Consultation" (which ran for 8 weeks from 19/12/2024 until 13/02/2025):

Response document:

  • September 2025: Compulsory Purchase Process and Compensation Reforms - Consultation outcome (link) (pdf print version of HTML webpage).

Notes:

  • The "Introduction" at the start of the above response document includes the following information:
    - "In December 2024 the government published a 'Consultation on Compulsory Purchase Process and Compensation Reforms' and sought views on a range of proposals. These included making the compulsory purchase process faster and more efficient so acquiring authorities are incentivised to make use of it where appropriate to deliver benefits for communities. Also, to enable more land value to be retained by public sector authorities via compulsory purchase and then reinvested in schemes for the public benefit.".
    - "The consultation asked 22 questions. A statistical overview of responses to the questions, showing the nature of the responses, is presented below as part of the analysis to each question. Where respondents did not specify a particular answer, these were considered and recorded as 'Don't know'. Responses were received which did not relate to the individual questions asked and they have not been included in the summary of responses.".

Other sources of information:

  • June 2022: Compulsory purchase - compensation reforms - consultation (pdf print version of HTML webpage) (link).
    - Note: For more information about the above document, please view this post.
  • April 2023: Compulsory purchase - compensation reforms - consultation outcome (link) (pdf print version of HTML webpage).
    - Note: For more information about the above document, please view this post.
  • December 2024: Compulsory Purchase Process and Compensation Reforms - Consultation (link) (pdf print version of HTML webpage).
    - Note: For more information about the above document, please view this post.
  • December 2024: Government press release - "New council powers to boost housebuilding and infrastructure" (link).