It’s a bit odd, but below is a toolkit which lists various types of public property where, if you think that is is redundant or could be put to better use and the government agrees, it will go up for sale.
The scale and type of property in our area is astonishing from, for example, a single-office room in Honiton to its (redundant surely) Magistrates Court, to a house in Exmouth and everything inbetween!
https://www.gov.uk/find-government-property
“The ‘Right to Contest’ guidance says that anyone – including businesses, local authorities or members of the public – can issue a challenge.
This is as long as they believe that all the following apply:
Where the land is owned by a central government department or one of their arms’ length bodies, the site: is potentially surplus or redundant; could be put to better economic use, “eg for housing or to help businesses develop or expand”.
The right can be used to challenge central government sites which are in use, as long as the challenger thinks that operations could be moved to a different location.
Where land is owned by a local authority or certain other public bodies: the site is empty or under-used; there are no plans to bring it back into use.”
Hmmmm …..!
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