Redevelopment - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: redevelopmentRedevelopment
the rebuilding of an urban area usually a commercial district but sometimes residential or industrial and typically involving some portion of government involvement and expenditure to organize a municipal redevelopment agency...
Housing of the working classes
Housing of the working classes. The Housing Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 51), replaces with amendments the Housing Acts, 1925, 1930 and 1935, and consolidates the general law on the subject with some exceptions, chiefly relating to agricultural populations and needs, which are also provided for in unrepeated portions of the Acts of 1930 and 1935. Very wide powers are conferred on local authorities over the ownership of land and housing properties, and populations within their districts, enabling those authorities to make bye-laws for houses occupied or adaptable for the working classes; to effect the clearance, demolition, rebuilding, redevelopment or improvement of houses either singly or in whole areas and other-wise regulating sites or houses; to prevent over-crowding, and generally making it incumbent on these authorities to review and provide for the housing conditions of the working classes, and in addition giving powers of compulsory expropria-tion of private owners fr...
Development
Development, means the carring out of building, engineering,mining or other operations in, on over or under land or the making of any material change on any building or land, or planting of any tree on land and includes development. [Delhi Metro Railway (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002 (60 of 2002), s. 2(c)]Development with its grammatical variations means the carrying out of building, engineering, mining or other operations in, on, over or under land or the making of any material change in any building or land and includes redevelopment. [Delhi Development Act, 1957, s. 2(d)]The word 'development' in, s. 10(20A) of the IT Act, should be understood in its wide sense. There is no warrant to exclude all development programmes relating to any industry from the purview of the word 'development' in the said sub-section. There is no indication in the Act that development envisaged therein should confine to non-industrial activities. Development of a place can be accelerated through vari...
brownfields
brownfields Abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination. Source: FindLaw ...
Redevelop
To develop again...
Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, (English)
Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, (English) (8 & 9 Vict. C. 18), amended by 23 & 24 Vict. C. 106, and 32 & 33 Vict. c. 18, applicable to England and Ireland, the Public Act of Parliament whereby railway companies and other public bodies, authorised by special Act of Parliament to take the land of individuals for the purpose of such special Act, enter upon and make compensation for the land. Ss. 3 and 5 apply this general Act to every undertaking established by any special Act passed after its date by which the purchase or taking of lands for such undertaking is authorised and incorporate the general Act with such special Act except when or in so far as it is expressly excluded.The (English) Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 59), varied the principles of compensation provided by the Lands Clauses Acts upon compulsory purchase by a Government Department or a local or public authority, inter alia, compensation under the Act of 1919, is to ...
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