🗺 What are we trying to do?

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We want Parliament to pass a new law — the Strategic Land Use Security Bill — to protect the UK’s long-term control over critical land assets. This means making sure land needed for homes, food, infrastructure, and environmental protection can’t be locked away by speculators or foreign entities.

🎯 What will this achieve?

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• Blocks harmful land banking and foreign monopolies
• Protects land needed for community needs and future generations
• Establishes a new legal framework to intervene in misuse or withholding of land

🏩 NATIONAL LEVEL – What should our MP do?

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✅ 1. Support or sponsor a draft bill

Push for the introduction of the Strategic Land Use Security Bill. This should include powers to:

• Audit land ownership and identify strategic sites
• Apply use-it-or-lose-it rules to land hoarding
• Limit speculative or hostile foreign control of land

✅ 2. Raise the issue in Parliament

Call for a statement from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities about:

• How the Government will secure strategic land assets
• Whether new powers will be introduced to prevent misuse of key land

✅ 3. Demand data transparency

Request the publication of data on:

• Who owns strategic land near infrastructure or settlements
• How much land is stalled or banked for speculative value

🏡 LOCAL LEVEL (EHDC) – What can be done right now?

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✅ 1. Map strategic land locally

Identify sites vital to housing, climate adaptation, energy, or food security and flag them in planning documents.

✅ 2. Use planning tools to challenge hoarding

• Refuse or delay permissions where applicants are known to stall delivery.
• Use Local Plan policies and phasing to prioritise trustworthy, active developers.

✅ 3. Declare strategic protection zones

Use Planning Position Statements (PPS) or guidance notes to:

• Declare land near key infrastructure or settlements as “strategic”
• Signal that the council will resist land speculation in these zones

🤝 What should our MP do locally?

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• Ask EHDC to publish a public register of stalled land
• Convene a public meeting on land control and community needs
• Include EHDC’s local strategy in briefings with ministers and select committees