0 a demand made by a public authority to buy land or property from a private owner in order to use the land for public purposes
1 a decision made in a court of law giving a government organization, etc. the right to buy private property if it needs the land to build something that will be of use to the public, such as a new road:
Now the question is whether there should be another inquiry on the compulsory purchase order.
The compulsory purchase order cannot be opposed on the ground that the acquisition is unnecessary or inexpedient.
We should like an assurance that nothing like a compulsory purchase order either could or would be contemplated.
The inspector treated the issue of the compulsory purchase order as the principal ground of objection.
That point is the time at which a compulsory purchase order is made in respect of his property.
All the circumstances which he would wish to advance as reasons for objecting to a compulsory purchase order may well have changed.
Evidently at some stage someone gets some compensation for the revocation of the compulsory purchase order or of the listing.
The inquiry was into a planning application, a compulsory purchase order and the stopping up of diversion of footpaths.
