Correspondence

Consultation on local authority land transfer

The DfE has launched a consultation on regulations enabling local authority land to be transferred more quickly when a maintained school becomes an academy.

• From: Department for Education and The Rt Hon Lord Strathclyde
• Published: 9 November 2011

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Documents

Land consultation letter from Lord Hill

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Details

The consultation will run for 10 weeks from today until 18 January 2012.

A copy of a letter from Lord Hill to local authorities, with some questions and answers can be downloaded from this page.

The full consultation is available in the consultations section of our website.

Background

When a maintained school become an academy their land is transferred, under lease, to the new academy’s trust. These new regulations enable the Secretary of State to get the required information for that transfer from local authorities. They do not give him any new powers to force local authorities to transfer land, or remove any rights from local authorities.

Published 9 November 2011