FOHP has begun a campaign to scrutinise the laws around community assets that have being sold off without consideration for local community interests.
A spokesperson for FOHP said: “We are campaigning for a parliamentary review of the administration process relating to community assets.
“At the moment, administrators have to apply purely commercial considerations even when there has been considerable community investment and involvement, as was the case with the pier.
“This is clearly inappropriate. We are seeking a change of the law so that community interests can be taken in to account in future. This will not help us but may hopefully prevent what we went through happening to others.”
The local group wrote to Amber Rudd, MP for Hastings and Rye, requesting an inquiry into policy implications that arise from it for the operation of the Community Right to Bid and the other community rights enshrined in the Localism Act.
Amber Rudd, MP for Hastings and Rye, has passed FOHP’s request for an inquiry to Clive Betts, chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government select committee in September.
Betts said in his response that scrutiny of the Localism Act would likely have to follow the government’s publication of a memorandum assessing the operation of the act so far, which he hoped would happen soon.
- See more at: https://www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/hasting-pier-campaigners-looking-to-prevent-future-sell-offs.html?mc_cid=a72810f414&mc_eid=4a6a4f1382#sthash.bxJwBQrS.dpuf
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