Planning and Compensation Act 1991

• to extend the powers to acquire by agreement land which may be affected by carrying out public works;
• to amend the law relating to compulsory acquisition of land and to compensation where persons are displaced from land or the value of land or its enjoyment may be affected by public works;
• to provide, in the case of compensation payable in respect of things done in the exercise of statutory powers, for advance payments and payments in interest;
• to repeal Part X of the Highways Act 1980.