Kayworth v Highways Agency
Kayworth v Highways Agency
- 1996
- Property and Compensation Reports [1996] 72 P&CR 433-439(4) .
LT 14 June 1996. The claimants (K) served a blight notice as their property was partly situated within the formal safeguarding corridor for the widening of the A1 to motorway standard. The Highways Agency (HA) served a counter notice on the grounds that they did not intend to acquire any part of the property. K challenged the HA notice, the HA responded by stating that the road widening would now take place on the opposite side of the road and had been so reported in the newspaper. K pointed out that the new route had not been notified to the local authority for search purposes and that two nearby houses had been purchased by the HA. Held, that the agency`s objection in the counter notice was not well founded as it had not informed the local authority formally of its changed intention.
BLIGHT NOTICES
COUNTER NOTICE
KAYWORHTH V HIGHWAYS AGENCY
ROAD WIDENING
TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 S150
LT 14 June 1996. The claimants (K) served a blight notice as their property was partly situated within the formal safeguarding corridor for the widening of the A1 to motorway standard. The Highways Agency (HA) served a counter notice on the grounds that they did not intend to acquire any part of the property. K challenged the HA notice, the HA responded by stating that the road widening would now take place on the opposite side of the road and had been so reported in the newspaper. K pointed out that the new route had not been notified to the local authority for search purposes and that two nearby houses had been purchased by the HA. Held, that the agency`s objection in the counter notice was not well founded as it had not informed the local authority formally of its changed intention.
BLIGHT NOTICES
COUNTER NOTICE
KAYWORHTH V HIGHWAYS AGENCY
ROAD WIDENING
TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 S150