ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the statutory powers which have been given to planning agencies for fulfilling their responsibilities. Under these powers are the plans which they can make: they have been described in the previous chapter. The chapter describes the powers which the agencies have been given for realising those plans by influencing directly what happens on the ground. Using the statutory powers for development permits and the land-use plan in ways which the law maker did not intend can be regarded as an expression of the principle 'Pragmatism rules'. The municipality made a land-use plan in general, with the requirement that the plan be elaborated in detail before it could be used to give the legal grounds for issuing a development permit. The purpose of the compulsory powers is to allow the land-use plan to be realised: if the existing owner wants to realise that plan on her land, compulsory purchase is not necessary.
