buggie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don't understand how such high figures can be > put on land for sale from those providing public > service to those providing public service Until I read the next line I was about to say "this is Southwark we're talking about, the council responsible for Heygate". And then you wrote > - is someone trying to catch up after the Heygate > scandal?! In seriousness though, in my experience, a local authority is far from being one big happy family, and different departments will happily mug other departments to balance their own books. And that's within an authority, so to expect them to be different for anyone else (whilst desirable) is probably a pipe dream.