Jake Berry – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jake Berry on 2015-11-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many applications to buy public owned land for residential development made between 2009 and 2015 were (a) made, (b) granted and (c) developed as set out in those applications.

Brandon Lewis

As part of the Public Sector Land programme between April 2009 and March 2015, a total of 838 central Government-owned sites were sold. The Department does not hold information on the numbers of applications for sale or disposal of central government land, nor the build-out rates for individual sites.