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Public land sale has short-changed us all
Ministers fail to check how land is being used
TAXPAYERS may have been short-changed by Tory ministers who showed “alarming complacency” over sales of public land, an investigation by MPs has revealed.
In a feeble bid to get to get to grips with Britain’s housing crisis, the government has been flogging land to private developers, promising 100,000 new homes would be built on the sites.
But a report has found they have no idea of how the land has been used.
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