Letter on public land disposal

The Metropolitan Police, the London Fire Brigade and the NHS own a large amount of public land in London.

The London Assembly Regeneration Committee has found that there are a number of efficiencies that could be made to improve the process of bringing public land into use.

The Committee wrote to the Mayor of London outlining a number of recommendations on how he can better support public land disposal, especially within the NHS.

Recommendations include:

• Make the brownfield land register map a live resource (delayed for over 3 years) to encourage development in London.
• Engage with London’s public landowners to gather views on how the London Development Panel can be reformed to quickly dispose of land.
• Establish a learning forum to share good practice in public land management following TfL’s leading approach.
• Encourage the London Estates Board to develop a primary care estate work programme and prioritise greater transparency of decision-making and information on available NHS land.
• Substantially expand the Small Sites programme to incorporate all public landowners in London.