Waters v Welsh Development Agency

In assessing compensation for compulsory purchase the Pointe Gourde (no-scheme) principle requires that any increase or decrease in the value of the acquired land attributable solely to the underlying scheme of the acquiring authority be disregarded; the principle supplements the statutory code and should generally be applied by analogy with it, with the scope of the relevant 'scheme' identified as a question of fact and degree, construed narrowly.