Luoni v Minister of Works and Development - [1987] 1 NZLR 20

Public works — Compensation — Economic loss with no physical interference with the land — Transitional provision — Declaration of limited access road thwarted landowner's plans to subdivide his land — Whether claim partly heard by the Land Valuation Tribunal — Whether landowner was entitled to compensation for damage by way of economic loss without physical interference with his land — Public Works Act 1928, s 42 — Public Works Act 1981, ss 60, 163 and 249. — Whether landowner's claim for compensation should be determined in terms of the 1928 or 1981 Acts