Part 7: Compulsory Purchase Etc Disputes Section 200: Objection to division of land: blight notices
Section 200 amends section 153 (reference of objection to Upper Tribunal) and section 166 (saving for claimant's right to sell whole hereditament etc.) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (1990 Act) in order to preserve the current procedure for objections to the division of land following a blight notice.
	Section 200(3) omits section 166(1)(b) and (2) of the 1990 Act. It is no longer possible to refer to a right under section 8 of the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 (as the wording of that section is amended by paragraph 2 of Schedule 17 to this Act). New subsection (4A) of section 153 of the 1990 Act (inserted by subsection (2)) is, however, intended to preserve the status quo. Where the effect of a blight notice would be a compulsory purchase to which Part 1 of the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 applies, the Upper Tribunal may uphold an objection on the grounds in section 151(4)(c) of the 1990 Act only if it is satisfied that this would not result in material detriment to the house, building or factory.
	Paragraphs 2 and 15 of new Schedule 2A to the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 (inserted by Schedule 17) disapply that Schedule where a notice to treat is deemed to have been served under section 154(5) of the 1990 Act, in respect of part only of a house, building or factory, following a counter-notice objecting to a blight notice on the grounds in section 151(4)(c) of the 1990 Act.