Community Assets

(asked on 11th December 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any plans to review the protected period for Community Right to Bid powers.


Answered by
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Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 17th December 2014

Under the Community Right to Bid, the protected period ensures that if, after either an interim (6 weeks) or full (six months including the six weeks) moratorium has been triggered but where a sale to the community did not result, the same owner wishing to sell the asset will not be subject to any further delay as no further moratorium can be triggered in this period. In total this is an eighteen month period which would include within it the interim or full moratorium.

Parliament agreed that this provision struck an appropriate balance between the property rights of an owner and the rights of the community. Post-legislative scrutiny for the Community Right to Bid will be taken forward over the next year and will be an opportunity to consider the efficacy of the right and whether the balance is right, including on this question.

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