“…or some other purpose, e.g. where the land is not yet required for the purpose for which it has been acquired (Attorney General v Hanwell Urban DistrictCouncil [1900] 2 Ch 377, a case concerning a local authority’s purchase of land for sewerage works under section 175 of the 1875 Act, at page 383 per Lord Alverstone MR). Section 164 …”
“…e land for one purpose, it cannot use the land for a different purpose unless authorised to do so by statute: Attorney-General v Hanwell Urban District Council [1900] 2 Ch. 377. The mechanism by which a local authority, having acquired land for one purpose, is enabled to use for a different purpose is appropriation.…”