Officers push for CPO reforms

By Mark Conrad | 07 August 2018

Council officers are pushing for reforms to the Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) regime, claiming caps on land values would speed up the delivery of new housebuilding.

A new study into the lessons councils could learn to improve housebuilding rates, published by the Local Government Association (LGA) today, revealed council officers’ frustrations with the current CPO system.

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