PART 5Community empowerment

F1Chapter 2AAssets of community value (England)

List of assets of community value

86EProcedure on community nominations

(1)

This section applies if a local authority receives a community nomination.

(2)

The authority must consider the nomination.

(3)

The authority must accept the nomination if the land nominated—

(a)

is in the authority’s area, and

(b)

is of community value.

(4)

If the authority is required by subsection (3) to accept the nomination, the authority must cause the land to be included in the authority’s list of assets of community value.

(5)

The nomination is unsuccessful if subsection (3) does not require the authority to accept the nomination.

(6)

If the nomination is unsuccessful, the authority must give, to the person who made the nomination, the authority’s written reasons for its decision that the land could not be included in its list of assets of community value.