213Service of purchase notice following making of discontinuance order(1)

This section applies where a discontinuance order is made in relation to any land.

(2)

If a person who has an interest in the land to which the order relates claims that the conditions in subsection (3) are met, the person may serve on the planning authority in whose area the land is situated a notice requiring the authority to purchase the person’s interest (a “purchase notice”).

(3)

The conditions are—

(a)

that because of the discontinuance order the land is unusable in its existing state (see paragraph 1 of Schedule 12), and

(b)

that the land cannot be made usable by carrying out any development for which planning permission has been granted (whether by the order or otherwise) or for which the planning authority or the Welsh Ministers have undertaken to grant planning permission.

(4)

Schedule 12 makes further provision about purchase notices (including further provision about the circumstances in which purchase notices may be served, and provision about the action to be taken following service of a purchase notice).