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by thatguy0900 1428 days ago
So if I want to give land to a friend, I can be forced to sell it if one of these groups have shown interest? That sounds very strange
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At a high level, yes.

However there are a lot of checks and balances to it. Not all land falls under the criteria and there's a lot of requirements around forming a group and the proposed use of the land ( such as being geographically local /etc ).

When I last looked into it, I think there'd only been 2 occurrences of the right to buy happening over a 4 year period.

Which does raise the question on 'Does the act achieve the goals it was setout to achieve' or is it mainly political posturing.

That's not something I can really comment on (nor would I want to).

> That sounds wonderful

There should always be an opportunity for land to return to the commons.