More community asset transfer schemes
7th December 2007, 2:25 pm
A further 14 schemes are to be added to the twenty projects already exploring how public assets can be transferred to local community management, reports Regen daily bulletin. Communities secretary Hazel Blears also said that the government was hoping to have 80 areas signed up to a community asset transfer project within two years. Regen daily bulletin news item.
Update from original item
- From the government’s official news release: Street markets run by the traders, old fire stations turned into community centres and listed buildings being restored for the benefit of the general public are just some of the assets which will be transferred into the hands of local people at discount prices as low as £1.00.
- From Senscot bulletin: England’s communities department (DCLG) is accelerating its centrally driven programme to persuade councils to transfer assets into community ownership ……. In Scotland, it seems that Government will leave initiatives on community empowerment, asset transfer etc to the discretion of individual councils – which means that some will work with communities and some wont. Senscot believes it would be helpful to create a kind of ‘council watch’ monitor to showcase monthly examples of good practice community empowerment. This could feed into an annual league table. Do you think this idea has merit? Email your response aidan@senscot.net