Bath City Council claims to the Central Land Board for loss in the value of property due to the local land development plan. Complete with responses from the Central Land Board

Reference Number
BC/6/3
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Series
Title
Bath City Council claims to the Central Land Board for loss in the value of property due to the local land development plan. Complete with responses from the Central Land Board
Date
1948-1949
Extent
Extent: 1 box
Description
The 1947 Town and Country Planning Act required planning authorities to undertake a survey and devise a local development plan to include industrial sites, residential areas, public services and transport. Land owners lost their automatic right to develop, and now had to apply for permission.. If an application was successful, land owners would pay a development charge equal to the resulting increase in property value. If landowners lost development rights, they would be compensated, and a fund of £300 million was created by the Act to pay this compensation. A newly-established Central Land Board assessed development charges and compensation, although it is not clear that any substantial amount of compensation was ever paid out. Arrangements for the payment of compensation were changed by the 1953 Town and Country Planning Act and the Central Land Board ceased to exist in 1959.

The Council itself owned a substantial amount of property, and put in claims to the Central Land Board for loss of value on some of this property. These forms record the claims: they include the square footage of the property, the length and date of the lease, if any, the outcome of the claim, the rent paid, the names of the lessees and the use of the property on 11 July 1948.

The forms are arranged alphabetically by address of property.

Catalogued by Patsy Monard, Angela Trenchard and Roz Jones, archival volunteers, as part of the 'Bath, Water and World Heritage: the city records from the 12th to the 21st centuries' project, 2015, funded by the National Cataloguing Grants Programme for Archives.
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