Originally Posted by
Libertine Winno
the previously agreed/now not agreed 3rd runway at Sipson would result in the demolition of around 700 properties.....
Having been involved in various road etc projects over time, as soon as it gets into the programme (long before work starts) the roads budget/local authority start buying up the properties affected as they come on to the market in the normal course of events. They can then be rented back out in the interim. By the time you come to start the project the vast majority are typically in your ownership, and compulsion cases end up being very few.
Has Heathrow not beeen buying up the Sipson houses in this manner over the years ?