Presentation on compulsory purchase

1. The Case For
Compulsory Purchase
Paul Smith, Cabinet Member for Homes
Chair Bristol Property Board

4. Compulsory purchase
• Is land always held by people who have the greater
good at heart?
• Should individual landowners be able to veto key
developments?
• Should individual landowners be able to hold
developments to ransom?
• Should councils be able to tackle blight resulting from
landowner intransigence?

5. Cabot Circus

9. Changing Political Environment