Highways Agency

LAND COMPENSATION ACT 1973 (AS AMENDED)

A12 Brentwood lighting

1. The Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions hereby gives notice that the improvements of the trunk road detailed in the schedule below were first open to public traffic on 25 March 2003.
2. Under Part 1 of the Lands 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 new or altered highways or the use of other public works including street lighting and resulting from specified physical factors (noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke and artificial lighting and the discharge on to the land of any solid or liquid substance). Compensation is assessed by reference to prices current at a date twelve months after the highway is first open to public traffic, or in the case of an altered highway, first open to public traffic after completion of the alterations.
3. 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 has been acquired for the purpose of constructing the highway.
4. Any person entitled to a qualifying interest who considers they have a claim under the said provisions may obtain further information and claim forms from the Highways Agency, Lands & Operations Management Division, Heron House, 49-53 Goldington Road, Bedford, MK40 3LL (Telephone 01234 796657 - Bal Sumal).
5. Claims may be made twelve months after the public works are first used after completion, that is on or after 25 March 2004 (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 his 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 in such cases will not be payable before the first claim day.

Schedule

Installation of the lighting from the A12 junction with the M25 to the existing lighting at Mountnessing Interchange. The total distance is around 7 km and the lighting itself consists of 12 metre columns.

Mrs Lesley Mahon
Head Of Branch
LOMD
Highways Agency
Heron House
49/53 Goldington Road
Bedford
MK40 3LL