Social Landlords Eye HCA’s £783m Landbank

Local authorities and housing associations have pledged to work with community groups interested in buying Homes and Communities Agency land. The move comes after the government introduced powers that could see the HCA’s £783 million landbank sold off. The new powers will allow residents to apply to buy public sector land they decide is of community value. Communities wanting to improve their neighbourhoods by developing disused public sector land had been bounced ‘off the walls of bureaucratic indifference’ for too long, Shapps said. In a thinly veiled attack on the HCA, he added that the government was ‘no longer prepared to accept the state-sponsored decline of local communities’. The list of assets is available to download from the HCA website by clicking on the logo below.