The answers

The questions people actually ask about community ownership, each answered with a quote from the legislation and a link to the section it came from.

These pages look different from the rest of this site, and that is the point. They are built in the client’s brand, read off the client’s own stylesheets rather than imposed on them. The platform takes a house style; it does not bring one.

Every one has been read and signed by a named person before publication. The publication gate refuses an unsigned answer and there is no way around it.

Has the Community Right to Buy started?

• Our pub's gone on the market and someone said there's a new community right to buy. Can we use it?
• So what can we actually do today?
• What actually changes when the new law does start?
• When does it start? Who decides that?
• If we did get the chance to buy it, where would the money come from?
• We're in Scotland. Does any of this apply to us?

What was, what has happened, and what is due

• Everyone says communities have had a right to save local buildings since 2011. How well has that actually worked?
• What's actually happened in the last two years? I keep hearing the law has changed.
• Is it worth waiting for the new law, or should we get on with it now?

The single most useful fact in the set

Quoted from section 95 of the Localism Act 2011: the interim moratorium is six weeks and the full moratorium is six months from the same date. So the six months includes the six weeks — it does not follow them — and the protected period is eighteen months.

Nearly every guide to this gets it wrong by implying six months of fundraising time. A group that plans on that basis is six weeks short.