Compulsory Purchase & Compensation

Including:

• Claimants’ entitlements to compensation under the Compensation Code
• Petitioning to Select Committee before a bill is granted royal assent
• Strategic responses to General Vesting Declarations and preparing and serving counter-notices in response
• Advising claimants on statutory blight and making blight applications on their behalf, settling blight claims and referring such claims to the Upper Tribunal where necessary
• Atypical property sales to the Acquiring Authority
• Acting for claimants where there has been breach of assurances and/or misstatements by the Acquiring Authority
• Resolving compensation claims via Alternative Dispute Resolution, principally Independent Expert Determination
• Referrals to the Upper Tribunal for determination
• Negotiating contracts for compensation ahead of possession
• Advising on various legal issues arising during the course of a compensation claim
• Advising, and acting for, claimants in applications under discretionary compensation schemes eg. HS2’s Need to Sell scheme and Rural Support Zone scheme
• Processing Advance Payments of Compensation