The Weekly Law Reports
[1977] 2 WLR 951
[HOUSE OF LORDS]
SOVMOTS INVESTMENTS LTD. APPELLANTS AND SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND OTHERS RESPONDENTS
BROMPTON SECURITIES LTD. APPELLANTS AND SAME RESPONDENTS
1977 Feb. 28;
March 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10;
April 28
March 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10;
April 28
Lord Wilberforce, Lord Edmund-Davies, Lord Fraser of Tullybelton, Lord Russell of Killowen and Lord Keith of Kinkel
Housing
— Compulsory purchase
— “House”
— Maisonettes on upper floors of office building never occupied
— Whether “houses” and “land” local authority empowered to acquire
— Ancillary rights over other parts of building necessary to enable maisonettes to be used as dwellings
— Whether such rights “appurtenances” belonging thereto”
— Whether power to acquire
— Ancillary rights
— Whether required to be specified in compulsory purchase order
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Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Act 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6, c. 49), Sch. 1, paras. 2, 15
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Housing Act 1957 (5 & 6 Eliz. 2, c. 56), ss. 92 (1) (c), 96 (b), 97 (1), 189 (1)
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