PART IIPROVISION OF HOUSING ACCOMMODATION
Disposal of land held for housing purposes
32Power to dispose of land held for purposes of this Part.
1
Without prejudice to the provisions of Part V (the right to buy), a local authority have power by this section, and not otherwise, to dispose of land held by them for the purposes of this Part.
2
A disposal under this section may be effected in any manner but, subject to subsection (3), shall not be made without the consent of the Secretary of State.
3
No consent is required for the letting of land under a secure tenancy or under what would be a secure tenancy but for any of paragraphs 2 to 12 of Schedule 1 (tenancies, other than long leases, which are not secure).
4
For the purposes of this section the grant of an option to purchase the freehold of, or any other interest in, land is a disposal and a consent given to such a disposal extends to a disposal made in pursuance of the option.
5
Sections 128 to 132 of the [1845 c. 18.] Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 (which require surplus land first to be offered to the original owner and to adjoining land-owners) do not apply to the sale by a local authority of land held by them for the purposes of this Part.