Community Land (Hansard, 11 October 1976)

§ Mr. Michael Latham
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment which 12W of the English counties and/or districts where the county does not act on behalf of the district has so far submitted five-year rolling programmes to him for acquisition of land after 1977 under the Community Land Act 1975; and, in each case where a submission has been made, what is the projected land of (a) expenditure and (b) receipts from disposal for each district in each year.

§ Mr. Freeson
I have received proposed programmes from the authorities noted below. The estimates of expenditure and receipts contained in these programmes are currently under discussion. I do not think that it would be appropriate to list figures which, at this stage, are no more than projected levels.
Metropolitan Counties

Greater Manchester

South Yorkshire

West Midlands

West Yorkshire

Tyne and Wear

Non-Metropolitan Counties

Avon

Bedfordshire Berkshire

Buckinghamshire

Cambridgeshire

Cheshire

Cornwall

Cumbria

Dorset

East Sussex

Essex

Hampshire

Hereford and Worcester

Hertfordshire

Humberside

Isle of Wight

Kent

Lancashire

Leicestershire

Northumberland

North Yorkshire

Nottinghamshire

Oxfordshire

Somerset

Staffordshire

Suffolk

Surrey

Warwickshire

West Sussex

West Yorkshire

Wiltshire

Other authorities

Lake District Special Planning Board

Peak District National Park

Greater London Councils

City of London

Barking

Barnet

Bexley

Brent

Bromley
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Greater London Council

Camden

Croydon

Docklands (submitted by Docklands Joint Committee)

Ealing

Enfield

Greenwich

Hammersmith

Hackney

Haringey

Harrow

Havering

Hillingdon

Hounslow

Islington

Kensington and Chelsea

Kingston-upon-Thames

Lambeth

Lewisham

Merton

Newham

Redbridge

Richmond/Thames

Southwark

Sutton

Tower Hamlets

Waltham Forest

Westminster

Wandsworth
District Councils

Allerdale

Alnwick

Ashfield

Aylesbury Vale

Babergh

Barrow-in-Furness

Basildon

Bassetlaw

Bath

Berwick-upon-Tweed

Beverley

Blaby

Blackburn

Blackpool

Blyth Valley

Bolsover

Bolton

Boothferry

Boston

Bournemouth

Bradford

Breckland

Brentwood

Bridgnorth

Bristol

Broxbourne

Broadland

Burnley

Bury

Calderdale

Cambridge

Cannock Chase

Carlisle

Caradon

Carrick

Castle Morpeth

Charnwood

Chelmsford

Cheltenham

Chesterfield

Chester-le-Street

Chiltern

Chorley

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District Councils

Christchurch

Cleethorpes

Colchester

Congleton

Copeland

Corby

Cotswold

Coventry

Craven

Crewe and Nantwich

Dacorum

Daventry

Derwentside

Doncaster

Dudley

Durham

Easington

East Cambridgeshire

East Hertfordshire

East Lindsey

East Northamptonshire

East Staffordshire

Eden

Ellesmere Port

Epping Forest

Exeter

Fenland

Forest Heath

Forest of Dean

Fylde

Gateshead

Gedling

Glanford

Gloucester

Great Yarmouth

Grimsby

Halton

Hambleton

Harborough

Harlow

Harrowgate

Hartlepool

Hereford

Hertsmere

High Peak

Hinckley and Bosworth

Holderness

Huntingdon

Hyndburn

Ipswich

Kennet

Kerrier

Kettering

Kingston upon Hull

Kingswood

Kirklees

Knowsley

Lancaster

Langbaurgh

Leicester

Lewes

Lichfield

Liverpool

Macclesfield

Maldon

Manchester

Mansfield

Melton

Mendip

Middlesbrough

Mid Suffolk

Milton Keynes

Newark

Newcastle-upon-Tyne

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District Councils

Newcastle-under-Lyme

Northampton

Northavon

North Cornwall

North Dorset

North Kesteven

North Shropshire

North Tyneside

North-West Leicestershire

North Wiltshire

North Wolds

Norwich

Nottingham

Oadby and Wigston

Oldham

Oswestry

Pendle

Penwith

Peterborough

Plymouth

Poole

Preston

Purbeck

Redditch

Ribble Valley

Richmondshire

Rochdale

Rochford

Rossendale

Rotherham

Runnymede

Rushcliffe

Rutland

Ryedale

St. Edmundshury

St. Helens

Salford

Salisbury

Sandwell

Scarborough

Scunthorpe

Sedgefield

Sedgemoor

Sefton

Selby

Sheffield

Shrewsbury and Atcham

South Cambridgeshire

South Derbyshire

Southend-on-Sea

South Herefordshire

South Holland

South Kesteven

South Norfolk

South Northamptonshire

South Ribble

South Shropshire

South Staffordshire

Stafford

Staffordshire Moorlands

Stockport

Stockton-on-Tees

Stoke-on-Trent

Suffolk Coastal

Sunderland

Tameside

Taunton Deane

Teesdale

Teignbridge

Tewkesbury

Thamesdown

Three Rivers

Thurrock

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District Councils

Torbay

Trafford

Tynedale

Uttlesford

Vale Royal

Wakefield

Walsall

Wansbeck

Wansdyke

Warrington

Watford

Waveney

Wealden

Wear Valley

Wellingborough

Welwyn Hatfield

West Derbyshire

West Lancashire

West Lindsey

West Norfolk

West Somerset

West Wiltshire

Weymouth and Portland

Wigan

Wimborne

Wirral

Wolverhampton

Worcester

Woodspring

Wycombe

Wyre

Wyre Forest

Yeovil

York

§ Mr. Michael Latham
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what is his estimate of the level of resources which the regional offices of his Department have indicated to county councils which will be available for land acquisition in their areas during 1977–78 under the Community Land Act 1975, indicating the monetary figure for each county council separately.

§ Mr. Freeson
Various figures have been discussed informally with some authorities seeking to help them in formulating their programmes. But these have not been firm indications, and the actual levels will depend on local priorities and needs to bring forward land for development. Final decisions will be taken against the figures published in Cmnd. 6393.

§ Mr. Michael Latham
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will set out in tabular form, for each county in England (a) the bids submitted to his Department by each district council, and the county council itself, for acquisition of land under the Community Land Act 1975 and (b) indicating which bids have been approved, rejected or deferred 17W by his Department, naming the actual site, the proposed use and the monetary value of the bid, or loan sanction, in each case.

§ Mr. Freeson
No. To do so would, in many cases, prejudice authorities' negotiations to bring forward development land.