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To: Eric Pickles
Stop the sell off of public land
The Government is quietly pushing your Infrastructure Bill through, which removes control to sell, or develop, publicly owned land from our local Councils.
Your Infrastructure Bill contains a clause which will allow ALL public land to be privatised and overrides all preceding protective regulation and legislation including public rights of way or any need to ask the people of England and Wales if they mind losing their; parks, playing fields, allotments, woodlands, village greens or public facilities to developers or road and rail builders.
Your Government is taking our local assets. Your Government is stealing our land.
We politely ask that this is stopped now – before the General Election !
Your Infrastructure Bill contains a clause which will allow ALL public land to be privatised and overrides all preceding protective regulation and legislation including public rights of way or any need to ask the people of England and Wales if they mind losing their; parks, playing fields, allotments, woodlands, village greens or public facilities to developers or road and rail builders.
Your Government is taking our local assets. Your Government is stealing our land.
We politely ask that this is stopped now – before the General Election !
Why is this important?
The Government’s new Infrastructure Bill removes control over decisions to sell, or develop, publicly owned land from our local Councils. This is our land.
It contains a clause ending the rights of local Councils to grant, or deny, planning consent - while cancelling any rights of way or any need to ask the people of England and Wales if they mind losing their; parks, playing fields, allotments or village greens to developers or road and rail builders.
The Infrastructure Bill contains a clause which will allow ALL public land to be privatized and Schedule 3 of the Infrastructure Bill states, “the property, rights and liabilities that may be transferred by scheme include … property, rights and liabilities that would not otherwise be capable of being transferred or assigned.” In plain English, this means all preceding regulation, legislation and other protections are null and void.
From the government’s perspective, it’s all about speeding up planning decisions and avoiding the delay caused by local ownership in the decision making process. However, this hands even more power to Eric Pickles and his unelected Planning Inspectors to bully and ride 'rough shod' over locally elected Councils and residents.
This Government promised a “Localism Agenda”, but is delivering the greatest shift of power from locally elected people to a burgeoning, remote, Central Government since the signing of the Lisbon Treaty.
We must not be resigned to the situation - we must insist our voice is heard
It contains a clause ending the rights of local Councils to grant, or deny, planning consent - while cancelling any rights of way or any need to ask the people of England and Wales if they mind losing their; parks, playing fields, allotments or village greens to developers or road and rail builders.
The Infrastructure Bill contains a clause which will allow ALL public land to be privatized and Schedule 3 of the Infrastructure Bill states, “the property, rights and liabilities that may be transferred by scheme include … property, rights and liabilities that would not otherwise be capable of being transferred or assigned.” In plain English, this means all preceding regulation, legislation and other protections are null and void.
From the government’s perspective, it’s all about speeding up planning decisions and avoiding the delay caused by local ownership in the decision making process. However, this hands even more power to Eric Pickles and his unelected Planning Inspectors to bully and ride 'rough shod' over locally elected Councils and residents.
This Government promised a “Localism Agenda”, but is delivering the greatest shift of power from locally elected people to a burgeoning, remote, Central Government since the signing of the Lisbon Treaty.
We must not be resigned to the situation - we must insist our voice is heard
