18 August - Selling off playing fields and open spaces
The brief report on Bexley council selling land at knock down prices provoked a number of comments and by chance the same subject has been in the national news again with the government caught out with with their dodgy figures. One reader illustrated just how cheap Bexley’s land was sold for with a spreadsheet. Making due allowance for area and taking Bexley’s price as the reference point, this is how much more money other boroughs made.
Bexley
1x
Richmond
397x
Haringey
3210x
Hillingdon
7x
Barnet
584x
Harrow
3868x
Redbridge
13x
Havering
596x
Merton
8333x
Sutton
191x
Croydon
654x
Hackney
13094x
Wandworth
276x
Ealing
998x
Southwark
13368x
Bromley
375x
Barking
1289x
Islington
15373x
Surely there must be a rational explanation for this?
I suspect some Freedom of Information requests will be formulated before long.
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