§ Mr. Frank Allaunasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how much land has been purchased by each of the London dockland boroughs under the Community Land Act.
§ Mr. FoxThe information up to 31 March 1979 is as follows:
acres purchased Docklands land board 2.7 Greenwich LBC 1.6 Lewisham LBC 2.3 Newham LBC 0 Southwark LBC 0 Tower Hamlets LBC 0.6
§ Mr. Frank Allaunasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he intends to seek to give the London dockland urban development corporation powers to purchase land similar to those exercised by the Land Authority of Wales.
§ Mr. FoxMy right hon. Friend has in mind that the main legislation should afford the urban development corporations the potential power to acquire land, by compulsory purchase if necessary, to reclaim and develop it, to provide infrastructure, and then to sell it or lease it. Urban development councils would exercise these functions in circumstances in which the private sector could not be expected to carry them out.