Community Assets
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to support community ownership of local assets.
Answered by Alex Norris
We want to support communities to take ownership of assets that are important to them. Community Right to Buy, introduced in the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, will empower local people to bring community spaces back into community ownership and help to end the blight of empty properties on our high streets.
This new measure will give community groups the first option to purchase registered assets when they are put up for sale and a longer timeframe to raise funding to purchase the asset.
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