… Mr Pickles is also urging Town Halls to “turn idle assets into money” to protect front line services. The government is allowing councils to use money raised from the sale of assets, such as empty buildings and redundant brownfield land, to help pay for the costs of improving local services and to keep Council Tax down.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-fund-to-help-councils-fight-fraud

Does our council leadership see a new HQ on the edge if Exeter as an “improvement” that income from the car park could fund?