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Warning on eco-town CPO wrangles

Michael Donnelly, PlanningResource, 1 July 2008

Local authorities will need to forcibly buy land on an almost unprecedented scale if the government's proposed eco towns are to go ahead as planned, specialist planning lawyers have warned.

"Past experience suggests there could be real difficulties assembling the land needed for eco towns," said Stephen Turnbull, planning partner at the business law firm LG. "Large scale land assembly...