Public Country Sold Past Times Your Council

As a lawsuit of the government's austerity programme councils inward the Great Britain are beingness forced into selling off publicly owned dry soil together with property. Local amenities such equally libraries, community centres together with playgrounds accept been unopen together with sold across the country. Around a 3rd of the coin that has been raised from this national asset stripping has been spent on redundancy payments.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has worked alongside the Huffington Post to investigate the 12,000 addition world spaces that accept been sold off yesteryear councils since 2014/15. You tin detect out what world spaces accept been sold yesteryear your local council on the Bureau's map Sold From Under You. If yous motility into your council's cite or your postcode into the Bureau's interactive tool yous tin persuasion a map of Blue Planet spaces sold off yesteryear your local council. The map sidebar also lists the spaces sold, the sum of coin each was sold for together with the full sum of coin raised yesteryear the council from selling off local world spaces.

You tin read to a greater extent than nearly the investigation inward the Bureau's written report Revealed: The thousands of world spaces lost to the council funding crisis. You tin also read to a greater extent than nearly the investigation inward the Huffington Post's storey Has Your Local Council Been Selling Off Public Spaces.