§ Mr. Fallonasked the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) whether he will list for each local authority in the Northern region the amount of land that has been identified as being in the ownership of (a) local authorities and (b) other public authorities;
(2) whether he will list for each local authority in the Northern region the amount of land belonging to (a) local authorities and (b) other public authorities subsequent to publication of the land registers.
§ Mr. MacfarlaneThe amount of land owned by local authorities and other public bodies is not centrally recorded, but unused and underused sites of an acre or more in public ownership are entered on the land registers. The attached table gives the acreage of such land owned at 1 July 1983 by local authorities and other public bodies for each district in the northern standard region.
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District Acreage Owned by local authorities Owned by other public bodies Hartlepool 149.0 386.2 Langbaurgb 317.9 553.0 Middlesbrough 774.2 181.5 Stockton-on-Tees 394.1 837.2 Allerdale 123.7 579.4 Barrow-in-Furness 285.9 187.0 Carlisle 167.3 206.0
District Acreage Owned by local authorities Owned by other public bodies Copeland 259.1 180.7 Eden 75.2 116.4 South Lakeland 81.6 205.4 Chester-le-Street 57.6 2.8 Darlington 597.0 105.8 Derwentside 505.5 404.8 Durham 147.9 14.5 Easington 53.9 379.2 Sedgefield 95.7 223.0 Teasdale 42.0 0.0 Wear Valley 96.9 23.2 Alnwick 60.9 3.6 Berwick-upon-Tweed 19.1 4.7 Blyth Valley 368.4 20.7 Castle Morpeth 67.1 20.0 Tynedale 80.4 25.8 Wansbeck 269.3 34.6 Gateshead 739.9 354.4 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 277.9 165.3 North Tyneside 677.4 142.9 South Tyneside 122.7 323.6 Sunderland 851.0 563.9