UK becomes conscious of an individual citizens’s right to protection of his/ her property, especially in that regard, the need for compulsory registrability of instruments generated by the acquiring authority,100 years after implementing compulsory land acquisition laws in one third of the world, after destroying the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.
ref:
Excerpts from The Law Commission(
(LAW COM No 291)
“TOWARDS A COMPULSORY
PURCHASE CODE:
(2) PROCEDURE
FINAL REPORT” Dec.2004
Local land charge registration
A.15 We believe that the system for compulsory acquisition of land and interests in
land not owned by the state should be made as open and transparent a process
as possible. We are conscious that an individual citizen’s right to protection of his
or her property is now a right enshrined in the Human Rights Act 1998.
A.16 Against this backcloth we have recommended that additional key steps in the
making and implementation process should be registrable as local land charges.
We do not believe that the cost of registration which will fall on acquiring
authorities and registration authorities will be more than minimal, and that any
burden should be more than outweighed by the benefit to affected landowners
who will be alerted to the need to pursue further enquiries. As we say in our
report,6 there should be no adverse effect on the land registration process under
the Land Registration Act 2002
