Housing Minister Grant Shapps has announced plans to give members of the public the right to reclaim and develop hundreds of acres of unused public sector land and buildings, which are currently trapped in a bureaucratic quagmire. The new Community Right to Reclaim Land will help communities to improve their local area by using disused publicly owned land for new development. There is currently a large amount of public sector land that could be developed for new homes, businesses and leisure facilities but a complicated and ineffective system makes it difficult to find out where the land is and who owns it, and even harder to request to use it. By the summer, a new one-stop shop will provide citizens with information about empty land and buildings they can develop to improve their local area. The new online tool will combine information from existing databases to form the bedrock of a new Community Right - the Right to Reclaim. Read more on the CLG website.
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