ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the depreciation or enhancement in the value of land retained, and the compensation that can be claimed, or the deductions that are made, where an owner has some land compulsorily acquired. Injurious affection is the depreciation in value of retained land as a result of the compulsory acquisition and the proposed use of all the land acquired by the acquiring authority. The right to claim compensation for severance and injurious affection is found in section 7 of the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965, which provides that in addition to the value of the land to be purchased the owner is entitled ‘to the damage, if any, to be sustained by reason of the severing of the land purchased from the other land of the owner, or otherwise injuriously affecting that other land by the exercise of the powers’.
