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LAND COMPENSATION ACT 1973 (AS AMENDED)

A523 Leek to Hazel Grove traffic safety improvements [2]

The Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions hereby gives notice that the public works detailed in the schedule below were fully opened to public traffic on 30 May 2002, after completion.

Under Part I of the Land Compensation Act 1973 (as amended) there is a right to compensation in respect of any depreciation of more than £50 in the value of certain interests in land caused by the use of public works and resulting from specified physical factors (noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, and artificial lighting and the discharge on to the land in respect of which the claim is made of any solid or liquid substance). Compensation is assessed by reference to prices current at a 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 I where part of a property has been acquired for the purpose of installing the works.

Any person entitled to a qualifying interest who considers that they have a claim under the said provisions may obtain further information and claims forms from the Highways Agency, Project Services, Lands, Federated House, Dorking, Surrey RH4 1SZ (telephone 01306-878419 - please ask for Mrs Julia Carroll).

Claims can be made twelve months after the public works are first used after completion, that is on or after 30th May 2003 the ("first claim day"). Claims should be made within six years from this date. However, any person who within the twelve months preceding this date makes a contract for disposing of their interest (insofar as the interest is in land which is not a dwelling) for granting a tenancy may make a claim within that period and must so before the interest is disposed of or a tenancy granted. Compensation in such cases will not be payable before the first claim day.

Schedule

The works comprised of high visibility signs, introduction of hatched areas in the centre of the carriageway, high friction surface materials, high visibility black and white painting of existing safety fence, improvements at signalised junctions,road markings emphasising speed limit and a new Puffin Crossing located on the A523 Macclesfield Road, Hazel Grove near to the junction with Chatsworth Road.

MRS P BAKER
A Higher Executive Officer
In the Highways Agency