Sentence examples for compulsorily purchase from inspiring English sources

It would be sod's law if the council decided to compulsorily purchase it just when I'd finally finished decorating it.

Under UK law, if one shareholder owns 90% of a company, it can seek to compulsorily purchase the other 10%.

Why is Lewisham so eager to compulsorily purchase Millwall's land – a genuinely hostile move from the club's former sponsor – on behalf of an opaque offshore developer?

Residents have been angered by the threatened use of "eminent domain" to compulsorily purchase the homes of around 400 people living in the Manhattanville zone.

"If the landowner or developer won't do the deal, the council should compulsorily purchase the site at its existing-use value and build the housing themselves.

His proposal was a shakeup of planning rules, making it easier for councils to compulsorily purchase land and introducing zoning for brownfield sites, so the presumption would be that they were suitable for housing.

The city council compulsorily purchased the Hubb building.

Properties are being compulsorily purchased, demolished and cleared to create brownfield sites to build new, more desirable properties.

"Land defined by a [designated] boundary was liable to be compulsorily purchased," recalls Wyndham Thomas, one of the early new town pioneers, who formerly headed Peterborough Development Corporation.

While Britons whose houses are compulsorily purchased by the government get market value, the French get another 25% on top of that.

Instead Lewisham has been intent on compulsorily purchasing the club's land in order to lease it to its preferred developers.