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ments affect land already leased, compulsory purchase, or purchase by negotiation, is sometime necessary. A Town Planning Ordinance, giving powers both in this respect and for the control of the use of land, has been in force since 1939, but it is only recently, due to increased development, that full use is being made of its provisions, in order that the best possible use may be made of the limited area available for development.
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