What family silver has your council sold off? Search our map to find out

Tue Mar 5 21:42:55 GMT 2019

What has your council sold? Search our map to find out

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Published March 5 2019 By 
<https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/profile/garethdavies>Gareth 
Davies , 
<https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/profile/charlesboutaud>Charles Boutaud

This story was published in partnership with:
Huff Post UK
Huff Post UK. 
<https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/sold-from-under-you-interactive-map_uk_5c757406e4b0bf166204267b>Read 
the story.

The local government funding crisis has become so 
dire that councils are being forced to sell 
thousands of public spaces  from libraries and 
community centres to playgrounds and pools  and 
are using some of the cash to fund further 
service cuts and redundancy payments.

In a major collaborative 
<https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2019-03-04/sold-from-under-you>investigation 
with HuffPost UK and regional journalists across 
the country, the Bureau has compiled data on more 
than 12,000 public spaces disposed of by councils 
since 2014/15. We found that councils raised a 
total of £9.1 billion from selling property during this period.

The findings lay bare the spiralling impact of 
eight successive years of austerity, leaving 
services shut and buildings closed. Councils have 
been forced to take ever more desperate measures 
to stay in the black as their funding from 
central government has been cut by about 60% since 2010.

See what your council has sold. Enter your postcode into this interactive map.

https://council-sell-off.thebureauinvestigates.com/
Map created by Outlandish, Joaquim D'Souza and Charles Boutaud

Concerned? What can you do?
Share our stories

We are sharing a 
<https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/projects/local-power>series 
of stories on this topic - please share these 
with those in your community - via email, social 
media, or on a community forum! Join us by using hashtag #SoldFromUnderYou.

Use our map as evidence

Explore our 
<https://council-sell-off.thebureauinvestigates.com/>interactive 
map to find out whats been sold off on in your 
local area - if youre concerned about the 
results you can write to 
<https://www.gov.uk/find-local-council>your 
council and <https://www.writetothem.com/>your MP 
to raise the issue. Or if you have information 
about a particular building or space that has 
been sold off, 
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/10AIYh4hF-qJrp504qUl7oNfV2RrwY5AsxjDdrVs6Utc/edit>let 
us know.

Safeguard the future

If you know of local buildings or spaces under 
threat, you can tell 
<https://locality.org.uk/policy-campaigns/save-our-spaces/have-you-saved-or-lost-a-space/>Locality, 
who coordinate #SaveOurSpaces, and who also 
advise what communities can do 
<https://locality.org.uk/policy-campaigns/save-our-spaces/save-a-space-in-your-local-area/>to 
save public spaces.

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