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Liverpool\u2019s Metro Mayor, Steve Rotheram<\/a> has established England\u2019s first Land Commission to review the use of public land for community wealth building<\/h2>\n

Since the 1980s, public land has come to be primarily treated as a financial asset, serving as collateral against which banks create mortgage debt.<\/p>\n

This has led to rising house prices<\/a> and housing shortages and has reduced overall productivity, with an increasing share of investment diverted to land from other more productive areas.<\/p>\n

Making the best use of public land<\/h3>\n

Steve Rotheram said: \u201cThe unprecedented circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic<\/a>, with all its economic consequences, make it even more important for us to ensure that we can wring the maximum possible community value from our land assets to encourage sustainable economic recovery.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve brought together a Commission made up of senior figures from the worlds of academia, property development and planning.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have challenged them to think imaginatively and come back to me with radical recommendations for how we can make the best use of publicly-owned land to make this the fairest and most socially inclusive city region in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough success stories such as Baltic Creative we\u2019ve already seen alternative, socially-conscious approaches to land management in the city region.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t wait to hear the Commission\u2019s recommendations for how we improve the management and use of land to deliver the greatest benefit for the people of the Liverpool City Region<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The commission, which has its first meeting today (9 September) will be coordinated by the Combined Authority in collaboration with think tank the Centre for Local Economic Strategies<\/a> (CLES).<\/p>\n

Commissioners will participate in four online meetings, over the course of September, October and November 2020 and CLES will take responsibility for drafting the final report, based on the output of the meetings.<\/p>\n

\u2018Seize the moment\u2019<\/h3>\n

Neil McInroy, director of CLES, commented: \u201cWe are very excited to be working with Liverpool City Region on this important community wealth building project.<\/p>\n

\u201cFar too often, land use in the UK has ended up being dominated by the pursuit of corporate profit, rather than serving the economic, social and environmental needs of the whole community.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s fanciful to wait for things to \u2018go back to normal\u2019 after Covid-19 \u2013 instead we should seize the moment to do things differently.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Land Commission is a pioneering step in this direction, that will serve as an example for other city regions across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

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