§ Mr. Milneasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give details of land sales conducted by his Department in south-east Northumberland during 1972.
§ Mr. ChannonTwo sales of redundant Ministry of Defence land in Northumberland have been conducted since 1st January this year.
Fifty-nine acres of mainly agricultural land at Bruridge Bay were sold to the National Trust, the sale being completed in July, 1972.
7.49 acres of building land, including a scheduled Victorian building, at Lower Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, are being sold to Messrs. Dickinson Miller and Turnbull of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, following an invitation for the submission of tenders which was widely advertised in the national and local Press during the summer.
We are now discussing with the National Coal Board the possibility of our selling to the board 480 acres of the landing area at the former RAF Airfield, Acklington.