[2025] UKUT 00335 (LC)

Section 5 of the Land Compensation Act 1961 (“the 1961 Act”) sets out the rules for the assessment of compensation following compulsory purchase of property, of which the relevant rules at the valuation date were:

“(1)

No allowance shall be made on account of the acquisition being compulsory:

(2)

The value of land shall, subject as hereinafter provided, be taken to be the amount which the land if sold in the open market by a willing seller might be expected to realise:

…

(6)

The provisions of rule (2) shall not affect the assessment of compensation for disturbance or any other matter not directly based on the value of land.”