{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-compensation-additional-compensation-england-regulations-2024/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-compensation-additional-compensation-england-regulations-2024/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/915",
  "legislation_title": "The Land Compensation (Additional Compensation) (England) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-compensation-additional-compensation-england-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Publication of decision",
  "text": "(1) Where the confirming authority decides to make a direction for addition compensation, by the end of the period of 6 weeks beginning with the first working day after receiving notice of the confirming authority’s decision, or such longer period as the confirming authority and acquiring authority may agree in writing, the acquiring authority must—\n(a) publish on a website maintained by the acquiring authority for a period of not less than one year a notice containing—\n(i) a copy of the confirming authority’s notice of decision together with written reasons;\n(ii) the title of the compulsory purchase order to which the direction for additional compensation relates (“the original compulsory purchase order”) and a description of the scheme or project underlying the original compulsory purchase order;\n(iii) a map showing the land comprised in the original compulsory purchase order (“the original compulsory purchase order land”);\n(iv) a statement inviting any person who would be eligible to claim additional compensation to submit a claim to the acquiring authority in accordance with regulations 9 and 10, as applicable;\n(v) the date by which any question of dispute concerning a claim for additional compensation may be referred for determination by the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber), which is to be calculated as the day before the expiration of a period of six years beginning with the decision date in regulation 7(1);\n(b) affix a public notice containing a statement that the confirming authority has made a direction for additional compensation in accordance with paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 2A to the Act and the same information as set out in paragraph (1)(a)(ii) to (v) (“the relevant information”) in at least one place—\n(i) on or near the original compulsory purchase order land, and\n(ii) in the locality in which that land is situated where public notices are usually posted,\nand take reasonable steps to protect and maintain the notice in place and in good condition for at least 1 month, repairing any damage or replacing damaged notices with another copy;\n(c) publish a notice for two successive weeks in each of the London Gazette, the Estates Gazette and a local newspaper that circulates in the locality in which the original compulsory purchase order land is situated containing a statement that the confirming authority has made a direction for additional compensation in accordance with paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 2A to the Act and the relevant information;\n(d) where the original compulsory purchase order land included land that was agricultural land immediately before it was acquired by the acquiring authority, publish a notice for two successive weeks in Farmers Weekly containing a statement that the confirming authority has made a direction for additional compensation in accordance with paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 2A to the Act and the relevant information.\n(2) Where the current postal address or address for electronic communication of a person who was entitled to compensation in respect of the acquisition of the original compulsory purchase order land is known to the acquiring authority, it must send copies of the decision and written reasons under paragraph (1)(a) and the relevant information to that person—\n(a) by recorded delivery to the person at that postal address, or\n(b) by electronic communication to the person at that address for electronic communication.\n(3) Where the original compulsory purchase order land included ecclesiastical property, the acquiring authority must send copies of the decision and written reasons under paragraph (1)(a) and the relevant information to the Diocesan Board of Finance for the diocese in which the land is situated.\n(4) Where the current postal address and address for electronic communication of a person who was entitled to compensation in respect of the acquisition are not known to the acquiring authority, it must take reasonable steps to ascertain this information, including by contacting any agent or solicitor known by the acquiring authority to have acted for that person in respect of the original compulsory purchase order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/915/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:26:49.016134+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}