Marriott v Minister of Health
Public Health – Housing – Clearance area – Compulsory purchase order – Demolition before
local inquiry – Housing Act 1930 (c 39), sched II, part 1, para 5.
The Nottingham Corporation on 4 June 1934, resolved that a certain area should be a
clearance area, and on the same day made a compulsory purchase order in respect of part
thereof. Upon that part of the area there were 39 houses of which 27 were the property of the
applicant.
 