Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian About 75,000 public assets, worth about £15bn, have been sold by English councils since 2010, in part to plug holes in their budgets, research by IPPR has found. An average of 6,000 council assets – such as playing fields, community centres, libraries, youth clubs and swimming ...
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