Written evidence to be reported to the House
Housing and Regeneration Bill
12:00 pm
Andrew George (St Ives, Liberal Democrat)
First, I apologise for my earlier absence, Mr. Gale, but I am also sitting on a Select Committee this morning. Secondly, I want to declare an interest as a founder member 21 years ago and a current board member of the Cornwall for Rural Housing Association, for which I have no pecuniary interest.
Will you expand more on your opening remarks, with particular regard to seeking the best social outcome for publicly owned land? How do you intend to get the best outcome, as you described it, when a public authority is selling land? That is a continual challenge for many public authorities, because a social outcome has no financial value attached to it. Do you intent to attach a value to it?