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5.8

5.7.1 that an owner of building land,

whether or not he proposes to accept

Letter B terms, should be given the

opportunity to refer the valuation

of his land to the Lands Tribunal;

5.7.2

5.7.3

that a landowner who lives in a house

on his own land in building status

should be offered reasonable rehousing

by the Government if he is unable to

solve his own rehousing problem; and

that the various ex-gratia compensation

rates on clearance should be continuously

reviewed to ensure their adequacy to

compensate for the various legitimate

uses to which building land is put.

The Working Group considers that these three

conditions are reasonable and proposes accordingly that

they should be adopted as the recommendations of the

Working Group.

Updating the Compensation and Credit Rates

5.9

In its earliest discussions, the Working Group

recognised that one of the principal shortcomings of the

existing system was the lack of a regular review, and that

proposals for the review of any rates of compensation would

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