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A12 Hatfield Peverel lighting
LAND COMPENSATION ACT 1973 (AS AMENDED)
A12 Hatfield Peverel lighting
The secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions hereby gives notice that the public works detailed in the schedule below were first used after completion on 23 March 2002.
Under Part 1 of the land compensation Act 1973 as amended there is a right to compensation in the respect of any depreciation of more then £50 in the value of certain interests in land caused by the use of public works and resulting from specified physical factors. In the case of street lighting the applicable physical factor is artificial lighting. Compensation is assessed by reference to prices current at the date twelve months after the works are first used after completion.
Interests qualifying for compensation are specified in section 2 of the above-mentioned Act and there are special provisions relating to claims by mortgagees and persons entitled under trusts or settlements. However, no compensation can be paid under Part 1 where part of a property for the purpose of installing the works.
Any person entitled to a qualifying interest who considers that he or she has a claim under the said provisions may obtain further information and claim forms from Mr B. Sumal, Highways Agency; Operations Directorate, Lands, Heron House, 49-53 Goldington Road, Bedford, MK40 3LL. Tel: 01234-796657
Claims may be made twelve months after the public works are first used after completion, that is on or after 23rd March 2003 (the "first claim day"). Claims should be made within six years from this date. However, any person who within the twelve months preceding that date makes a contract for disposing of there interest or (insofar as the interest is in land which is not dwelling) for granting a tenancy may make a claim within that period and must do so before the interest is disposed of or tenancy granted. Compensation is such cases will not be payable before the first claim day.
Schedule
The installation of 76 lighting columns and lamps from point 508 metres northeast of the Terling Hall Lane Bridge for a distance of 1668 meters north-eastwards on the A12 at Hatfield Peveral, near Chelmsford, in the county of Essex.
Jamie Hassal
Highways Agency
P S Operations Directorate,
Heron House
49/53 Goldington Road
Bedford
MK40 3LL
Tel: 01234 796048
