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Look at it this way – say you lived in a house and your neighbour decided to take part of your back garden for themselves. They can’t, it doesn’t belong to them. You could decide to sell a portion of your land to them, but that is a different matter.
The relevant owners have taken land that doesn’t belong to them. Land has a value. Unless the owner/s of that land agree to transfer title to them, they are obliged to give it back. To say otherwise is to legitimise a form of theft.
In relation to the Committee issue, I would suggest that the relevant owners have a conflict of interest in relation to any consideration of a matters relating to the dispute and should be excluded from any discussion or vote on that maater.