on 27 August we ran a story on Government plans for a “Right to Contest” to force sale of Government land – a press release that seems in (quite recent) retrospect to be rather in the style of La La Land:
Here is an update:
“In response to a Freedom of Information request from HuffPost UK, the Cabinet Office admitted that only nine applications had been made asking for certain bits of land or property to be sold off since the launch of the “Right to Contest” programme this January, with seven of those applications already rejected by officials.
The Cabinet Office said that three of the applications demanding the sale of particular bits of Whitehall-owned land had been rejected as the sites were judged to be “vital to operations”, while the other four were “out of scope” of what applicants can request. The final two applications are “still ongoing” and awaiting final judgement.”
East Devon Watch 