Compulsory purchase order to be imposed after farmer holds out for 16 years on sale of land wanted for motorway

The Czech government is to impose a compulsory purchase order on land in east Bohemia in order to build a motorway. Farmer Ludmila Havránková has for 16 years been refusing to sell three hectares on which the state wants to build part of the D11 motorway near Hradec Kralové. She says she will continue her legal battle to keep the land, and a government official said it would likely take at least a year for the compulsory purchase order to be carried out.

Author: Ian Willoughby