The UK Government is planning to hand over about £1 bn of disused property to community groups in a move to revive local facilities, the Guardian newspaper has reported. Local councils will have to identify empty, unused assets, including schools and hospitals, that could be transferred to local communities.
The UK Government is planning to hand over about £1 bn of disused property to community groups in a move to revive local facilities, the Guardian newspaper has reported. Local councils will have to identify empty, unused assets, including schools and hospitals, that could be transferred to local communities.
The Department for Communities and Local Government, headed by Ruth Kelly, is launching this initiative providing £400,000 to monitor 20 pilot asset-transfer schemes. Under the plan, a new £30 mln fund, managed by the Big Lottery Fund, will support the asset transfers to the more than 1,500 community organisations expected to benefit from this initiative.
