Right To Regenerate

Discussion about miscellaneous topics not covered by other forums
Sarah
Posts: 5830
Joined: Sat Jun 26 2010 10:01am
Has thanked: 432 times
Been thanked: 4414 times
Contact:

Right To Regenerate

Post by Sarah » Fri Feb 19 2021 9:16am

Yet another grubby Tory scheme to transfer public resources into private pockets & a potential future scandal ...
Right to Regenerate is, effectively, a land-grabbers’ charter. Well-resourced companies, deploying expensive legal advisors and geospatial surveys, would be able to identify ‘underused’ buildings or pieces of land. They would then have the legal right to force councils and other public bodies to sell them and would be given a first refusal option to buy any property they identified.
The Right to Regenerate announcement contains no mention of a planning process or public consultation. It appears, then, that Robert Jenrick plans to give you the right to oppose an attempt to take down a statue or change a street name but when it comes to developers helping themselves to bits of your local park, you’ll get no say because that will be their ‘legal right’.

Here we see the Culture War in microcosm. You get to have your say on stuff that doesn’t really make much material difference but when it comes to matters involving money, land or other resources, you don’t get a look in.
https://flipchartfairytales.wordpress.c ... ing-trick/

sanity clause
Posts: 2122
Joined: Sat Dec 10 2011 10:01am
Has thanked: 174 times
Been thanked: 740 times
Contact:

Re: Right To Regenerate

Post by sanity clause » Sat Feb 20 2021 8:33am

R.I.P. Green Belt
Thanked by: blythburgh

pakefield
Posts: 546
Joined: Sat Jan 03 2015 6:35pm
Has thanked: 1035 times
Been thanked: 218 times
Contact:

Re: Right To Regenerate

Post by pakefield » Sat Feb 20 2021 10:49am

So elected officials will be forced to sell even when the local people want to keep it. And that piece of land/building will be underused now but not necessarily always be underused

Post Reply

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 6 guests