John,
You are completely right, the properties mentioned above will be compulsory acquired for those purposes and Council wears the expense of the acquisition as well as the rates outstanding but then they would be turned to exempt properties.
But the question raised yesterday was if Council was to compulsory acquire some of slithers for example a triangle across someone’s drive way could we on sell it to the adjoining owner. To be advised by our legal division that no we can’t, we would be better off purchasing them at auction if passed in and then selling them to the adjoining owners.
