(1) Where—
(a) any land is reserved in an operative master plan or local plan or an approved scheme for a public open space, cemetery or car park or for housing or for any service provided by the State, a local authority or a statutory body; and
(b) the owner of the land is refused a permit to develop the land on the grounds that the proposed development would interfere with the use of the land for the purpose for which it is so reserved;
he may call upon the authority in whose favour the land is reserved to acquire the land:
Provided that this subsection shall not apply where land has been reserved for road widening purposes unless the area of the land of such owner is diminished by the reservation to such an extent as to render the remaining area of his land substantially less suitable for development in conformity with the provisions of the relevant master plan, local plan or approved scheme, whether by reason of the shape of the remaining area of his land or otherwise.
(2) Where any land is reserved in an operative master plan or local plan or an approved scheme for a transportation corridor or freeway, the owner of the land may call upon the authority in whose favour the land is reserved to acquire the land.
(3) Where—
(a) any land is reserved in an operative master plan or local plan for the preservation of buildings of special architectural merit or historic interest; and (b) the owner of the land is refused a permit to develop the land on the grounds that the proposed development would interfere with the use of the land for the purpose for which it is so reserved;
he may call upon the local planning authority within whose area the land is situated to acquire the land.
(4) The owner of any land on which there is a building in respect of which a building preservation order has been served may call upon the local planning authority within whose area the land is situated to acquire the land.
(5) Where an authority has been called upon in terms of this section to acquire any land, it shall, within two years of being so called upon—
(a) acquire the land:
Provided that where the authority has been called upon in terms of subsection (3) or (4)—
(a) it may acquire the building concerned without any land with a view to removing the building from the site and erecting it elsewhere for the benefit of the public; and
(b) where the authority acquires any building in terms of paragraph (a) of this proviso—
(i) it may, within a reasonable period, enter upon the land concerned and do such things as are necessary to remove the building and erect it elsewhere; and (ii) such acquisition shall be deemed to be an acquisition of land for the purposes of this Part; or
(b) subject to subsection (6), delete the reservation over the land concerned from the operative master plan or local plan or the approved scheme, as the case may be, and prepare an amendment or variation of such plan or scheme in accordance with section twenty or seventy-six as may be appropriate or withdraw the building preservation order, as the case may be.
(6) The local planning authority shall not alter an operative master plan or local plan or an approved scheme in terms of paragraph (b) of subsection (5) unless the Minister consents thereto and, if the Minister refuses his consent, that authority shall acquire the land in terms of paragraph (a) of subsection (5).
(7) In this section—
“freeway” means a divided arterial highway for through traffic with limited access and no crossings at grade level which is reserved in an operative master plan or local plan or an approved scheme as a freeway;
“transportation corridor” means a corridor for the separate provision of more than one method of transportation which is reserved in an operative master plan or local plan or an approved scheme as a transportation corridor.