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You can ask for publicly owned land or buildings to be sold if you think they鈥檙e vacant or underused.

Find out who owns land or buildings

You can find out who owns land or buildings by:

• contacting the government department, council or public body you think is the owner
• checking the government鈥檚
• searching the HM Land Registry database

Ask for property to be sold

Download and fill in the 鈥榬ight to contest鈥� application form and send it to the address on the form. The addresses are different for government property and local public body or council property.

You must say why you think the property is being underused and what you think it could be used for.

The department or agency won鈥檛 sell if:

• the land or buildings aren鈥檛 safe for your proposed use, for example if they鈥檙e part of a port, army barracks or on a flood plain
• they鈥檝e plans for the land, such as for a railway or road
• the cost of selling wouldn鈥檛 be good value for the taxpayer, for example if moving to another site would cost more than the value of the property

You鈥檒l get a letter telling you the result of your application.

Further information

Contact the Government Property Unit about property owned by the government and national agencies.

Contact the Planning Casework Unit about property owned by local councils and public bodies.