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Commons · Question 94154 · Tabled 25 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 3 Dec 2025

Question

Asked by Mark Pritchard

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will extend Community Right to Buy powers to include environmental assets such as peat bogs, heathland, meadows, woods and rivers.

Answer

Answered by Miatta Fahnbulleh, 3 Dec 2025

The new community right to buy, which we are introducing through the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, will give communities stronger powers to take ownership of assets that are important to them. Communities will already be able to nomin...