PROTECTORS
OF PUBLIC LANDS (PPL)
PRIVATE
LANDS OF PUBLIC SIGNIFICANCE
- Private land is
of public significance where:
(a)
The land has environmental, heritage, natural, cultural, social, historic,
scientific, aesthetic, ecological
or indigenous value to the public, or
(b) The land is capable at present or in the future of having a value
or use that would be of demonstrable
benefit to the public.
- Where
private land is of public significance:
(a)
Its value(s) should be preserved and protected, and
(b) Consideration
should be given to the public purchase or acquisition on just terms
of such
land where -
(i)
The land is of considerable public significance, and
(ii)
It is in the public interest to purchase or acquire the land because
of its public significance, public utility, prior public ownership,
location, zoning, the nature and history of its ownership, or otherwise.
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