ABSTRACT
In response to the widespread dissatisfaction with available information many community action organisations have set up information and advice centres of one sort or another and local and national community action journals have consistently instructed readers on their rights during the clearance process. It would be surprising if, at the final stage of the clearance process when residents were being rehoused and their houses boarded up, those remaining had not realised that their house was to be demolished. In fact all respondents were aware that their houses were to be cleared. Compensation was of direct concern only to the 28 percent of households who were owner occupiers. About 22 percent of the owner occupied houses were classified as fit for human habitation when the CPOs had been confirmed and the general law of compensation for compulsory acquisition applied to them.
