http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/20/section/86KLocalism Act 2011An Act to make provision about the functions and procedures of local and certain other authorities; to make provision about the functions of the Commission for Local Administration in England; to enable the recovery of financial sanctions imposed by the Court of Justice of the European Union on the United Kingdom from local and public authorities; to make provision about local government finance; to make provision about town and country planning, the Community Infrastructure Levy and the authorisation of nationally significant infrastructure projects; to make provision about social and other housing; to make provision about regeneration in London; and for connected purposes.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2026-07-05Expert Participation2026-06-29 Localism Act 2011s. 158(8)-(9B)Housing and Planning Act 2016s. 121(2)(e)s. 216(3) PART 5 Chapter 2A86K1A person who is an owner of land included in a local authority’s list of assets of community value (“the owner of land of community value”) must not enter into a relevant disposal of all or part of the land unless the disposal is made in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter.2Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to a relevant disposal of land—aif the disposal is by way of gift (including a gift to trustees of any trusts by way of settlement upon the trusts),bif the disposal is by personal representatives of a deceased person in satisfaction of an entitlement under the will, or on the intestacy, of the deceased person,cif the disposal is by personal representatives of a deceased person in order to raise money to—ipay debts of the deceased person,iipay taxes,iiipay costs of administering the deceased person’s estate, orivpay pecuniary legacies or satisfy some other entitlement under the will, or on the intestacy, of the deceased person,dif the person, or one of the persons, making the disposal is a member of the family of the person, or one of the persons, to whom the disposal is made,eif the disposal is a part-listed disposal of a description specified in regulations made by the Secretary of State, and for this purpose “part-listed disposal” means a disposal of an estate in land—ipart of which is land included in a local authority’s list of assets of community value, andiipart of which is land not included in any local authority’s list of assets of community value,fif the disposal is of an estate in land on which a business is carried on and is at the same time, and to the same person, as a disposal of that business as a going concern,gif the disposal is occasioned by a person ceasing to be, or becoming, a trustee,hif the disposal is by trustees of any trusts—iin satisfaction of an entitlement under the trusts, oriiin exercise of a power conferred by the trusts to re-settle trust property on other trusts,iif the disposal is occasioned by a person ceasing to be, or becoming, a partner in a partnership, orjin cases of a description specified in regulations made by the Secretary of State.3For the purposes of subsection (2)(d), a person (“M”) is a member of the family of another person if M is—athat other person’s spouse or civil partner, orba lineal descendant of a grandparent of that other person.4For the purposes of subsection (3)(b) a relationship by marriage or civil partnership is to be treated as a relationship by blood.5For the meaning of “relevant disposal”, and for when a relevant disposal is entered into, see section 86L.Pt. 5 Ch. 2A inserted (29.4.2026 for specified purposes) by English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 (c. 23), s. 108(1)(6), Sch. 31 para. 1 (with Sch. 31 para. 2)