Section 249: Distance limits from highway applicable to compulsory acquisition.

Highways Act 1980 · 1980 c. 66View on legislation.gov.uk

Part XII: Acquisition, Vesting and Transfer of Land etc.

.Subject to subsection (3) below, a highway authority shall not in the exercise of a power to acquire land under any of the provisions of this Act specified in column 1 of Part I of Schedule 18 to this Act require compulsorily land lying beyond the limit specified in relation to that power in column 2 of that Schedule.

Part II of Schedule 18 has effect with respect to limits specified in Part I of that Schedule.

Nothing in this section applies to land required for purposes connected with the drainage of a highway or proposed highway, or of a maintenance compound, service area, trunk road picnic area or lorry area, or required for the purpose—

of the diversion of a navigable watercourse,
of the carrying out of works authorised by section 110 above, or
of providing protection for a highway or proposed highway against snow, flood, landslide or other hazards of nature.

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