Localism Act. The 2011 Localism Act brought new powers and opportunities for Parish and Town Councils including: ● Community Right to Bid (Assets of Community Value) This allows Local Councils a chance to prepare a business plan and secure funding to bid to buy facilities or buildings that are important to them. Examples could be a local pub, village shop, allotment, library, or community centre etc. If a Local Council considers that a particular asset is or would be valuable to the local community it can nominate the asset to Rotherham Council with a request to get it listed. Rotherham Council can refuse to list the asset but if they do they must explain their reasons to the Local Council. There is no right of appeal for Local Councils, but owners do have the right of appeal against the asset being listed. Once listed, if the asset comes up for sale, the owner must tell Rotherham Council who will impose a moratorium on the sale. There is a 6 week moratorium to allow a Local Council to express an interest, if they do, then the moratorium period is extended to 6 months to allow the Local Council to prepare a bid, however, once all bids are in, the owner can sell the asset to the bidder of their choice. ● Community Asset Transfer Community Asset Transfer is not the same as Community Right to Bid. Community Asset Transfer deals with an asset that is already in public ownership and allows for transfer of that asset to communities (Parish or Town Councils) at less than its market value if this can be agreed between those participating. Rotherham Council agrees to enter this voluntary process with all Local Councils in the Borough. Rotherham Councils Community Asset Transfer policy and relating information is available to download from the Council Website: community-asset-transfer-policy (xxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx) Appendix 3 - Community Asset Transfer Flowchart.pdf (xxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx) xxx.xxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx/xxxxxxxxx/xxxx/000/xxxxx-xxxxx-xxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxx- transfer ● Community Right to Challenge This community right gives Local Councils, either as a single parish or a cluster of parishes the opportunity to “express an interest” in running a service currently provided by Rotherham Council. Expressions of interest that comply with the requirements set out in the Act will trigger a procurement exercise conducted by Rotherham Council in compliance with the Act and its own procurement procedures. Rotherham Council undertakes to communicate the outcome of the procurement exercise to involv...
Localism Act. The 2011 Localism Act brought new powers and opportunities for Parish and Town Councils including: l Community Right to Bid (Assets of Community Value) This allows local councils a chance to prepare a business plan and secure funding to bid to buy facilities or buildings that are important to them. Examples could be a local pub, village shop, allotment, library, or community centre etc. If a Local Council considers that a particular asset is or would be valuable to the local community it can nominate the asset to RMBC with a request to get it listed. RMBC can refuse to list the asset but if they do they must explain their reasons to the Local Council. There is no right of appeal for local councils, but owners do have the right of appeal against the asset being listed. Once listed, if the asset comes up for sale, the owner must tell RMBC who will impose a moratorium on the sale. There is a 6 week moratorium to allow a Local Council to express an interest, if they do, then the moratorium period is extended to 6 months to allow the Local Council to prepare a bid, however, once all bids are in, the owner can sell the asset to the bidder of their choice.
