Member

To address the noble Lord’s comments from Committee directly, first, where a CPO is made with a direction for the non-payment of hope value, for the direction and the CPO to take effect there must be a compelling case in the public interest as the CPO and the direction itself must be justified in the public interest. Where the land subject to a CPO with a direction had a long-established realistic prospect of planning permission for future development, any hope value direction would need to be justified by a sufficient public benefit.