Communities and Local Government written question – answered at on 27 November 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many (a) expressions of interest and (b) formal bids have been received under (i) community right to bid and (ii) community right to reclaim land in England.
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The community right to bid provisions came into force on
The community right to reclaim land allows anyone to contact local authorities or other listed public sector bodies about land that they own which they see as underused or vacant. Where public landowners take no action a request can be made to Government to exercise their powers under the Local Government Planning and Land Act 1980. The process by which this is done is through a Public Request to Order Disposal which allows anyone to request that a specific area of publicly-owned land is brought back into effective use.
Since the announcement of the community right to reclaim land in October 2011, 14 requests have been received for the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government to direct disposal under the 1980 Act.
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No0 people think not
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