Reply to: Chinese compulsary purchase orders on a house...

[OwlHoot]

Stott Hall Farm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Darn - Beat me to it!

[Clippy]

[Freamon]

It is one of the ten best-known sights from the motorway network

That sounds like an exciting countdown.

Yes here you go:

Spaghetti Junction M6 - junction 6 near Birmingham
River Severn Bridge M48 - between Bristol and Wales
RAC Bescot building M6 - between junctions 8 and 9 near Walsall, West Midlands
Wicker Man M5 - near Bridgwater, Somerset
Stirling Castle M9 - near junction 10, Stirling, Scotland
QEII Bridge M25 - near junction 2, joins Thurrock and Dartford
Ratcliffe on Soar Power Station M1 - between junctions 24 and 25 near Nottingham
Fort Dunlop M6 - near junction 5, Birmingham
The Medway Viaduct M2 - between junctions 2 and 3 near Rochester, Kent
Stott Hall Farm M62 - between junctions 22 and 23, West Yorkshire

[DimPrawn]

Yep.

[mos]

Is that not spelled compulsory ???

[vetran]

love this

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/...78_964x622.jpg

[vetran]

Earlier this year, Hong Chunqin, 75, and her husband Kung, who live in the two dilapidated buildings with their two sons, had initially agreed to sell the property in Taizhou, in Zhejiang province and accepted £8,000 in compensation.

But then she changed her mind and refunded the money once work on the road had started.

In another case, one family among 280 others at the site of a six storey shopping mall being built in Chongqing refused to leave their home for two years.

Developers cut their power and water, and excavated a 10-meter deep pit around their home, which their family had inhabited for three generations.

The owners broke into the construction site, reoccupied it, and flew a Chinese flag on top and then Yang Wu, a local martial arts champion, used nunchakus to make a staircase to the house and threatened to beat any authorities who attempted to evict him.

The owners turned down an offer of £300,000 but eventually settled with the developers in 2007.

big disparity in compensation, looks like they don't have rules on harassment.

[Sysman]

Stott Hall Farm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If you actually could be bothered to read the detail in that article...

The road forks around the farm for engineering reasons owing to the surrounding area's geology, though a local myth persists that the road had to be split because the owners refused to sell the land during its construction.

And yes, I am old enough to remember the tales about the farmer wanting so much for the place that they built around him.

[TykeMerc]

Some pretty odd pictures and situations there.

[DimPrawn]

ftfy

Git. It's lucky I'm going deaf.

[doomage]

And each leg of the road is quite a bit apart. I've just bought in a new build estate built closer to the motorway than that, with a sound barrier fence at the end of a 20 foot garden.

ftfy

[d000hg]

Love it. Also, they've ended up with a massive house that was previously multiple apartments.

[DimPrawn]

"though a local myth persists that the road had to be split because the owners refused to sell the land during its construction."

And each leg of the road is quite a bit apart. I've seen new build estates built closer to the motorway than that, with a sound barrier fence at the end of a 20 foot garden.

[Robinho]

It is one of the ten best-known sights from the motorway network

That sounds like an exciting countdown.

[RasputinDude]

"though a local myth persists that the road had to be split because the owners refused to sell the land during its construction."