Acquisition and Disposal of Land
Transport for London
NOTICE FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE CRICHEL DOWN RULES
PROPOSED DISPOSAL OF THE FOLLOWING PROPERTY/PROPERTIES (“THE LAND”):
129 Western Avenue, Acton, London W3 6RN
The Land has been declared surplus to requirements by Transport for London (“TfL”) and is being put forward for disposal. The Crichel Down Rules (“the Rules”) require Government Departments under certain circumstances to offer back surplus land to the former owner or successor in title or sitting tenant for sale at market value. Statutory bodies holding land that has been compulsorily purchased are recommended to follow the Rules and TfL has decided to do so in relation to the Land.
Under the Rules, former owners or their successors in title (or in priority to them, certain residential sitting tenants with long term security of tenure) may be entitled to purchase the land formerly in their ownership (or in the case of sitting tenants, the land comprising their dwelling) at current market value subject to certain exceptions set out in the Rules which may be of application.
TfL does not consider that the Land falls within one or more the exceptions in the Rules and, therefore, it is obliged to offer back the Land to the former owner or their successor in title.
If you are the former owner of the Land or their successor in title and you wish to purchase the land formerly in your ownership or in your predecessor in title’s ownership, please respond to this advertisement in writing within two months of the date of its publication. Your response must set out the basis for your claim that you are the former owner of the Land or successor in title to the former owner and confirm your intention to purchase the Land at current market value. If no such notice intention to purchase which qualifies under the Rules is received, TfL intends to sell the Land at the expiry of the two month period.
Former owners or their successors in title responding to this advertisement should do so in person or through their solicitors or agents by writing to:
Erica Rabone, BNP Paribas Real Estate UK, 5 Aldermanbury Square, London, EC2V 7BP
