We could have bought Knowle off ourselves and built affordable housing!
“Councils can bid to a new £45m land release fund for site remediation and small-scale infrastructure projects that will help bring sites forward for housing that could not otherwise be developed.
The fund has been launched by the Department for Communities & Local Government in partnership with the One Public Estate programme run by the Cabinet Office and the Local Government Association (LGA), which is separately offering £9m to councils to deliver programmes to make better use of publicly owned land and buildings.
Ministers hope to unlock enough council-owned land for at least 160,000 homes to be built by 2020.
Minister for government resilience and efficiency Caroline Nokes said: “One Public Estate is enabling local authorities to make better use of their land and property and deliver tangible benefits to their communities.” …
http://www.publicfinance.co.uk/news/2017/08/government-launches-ps45m-land-release-fund
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