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Housing and Regeneration Bill

One way of avoiding this problem would be if the Homes and Communities Agency simply did not purchase burial grounds. Then we would not have this difficulty. Of course, the Minister may be able to explain why the Homes and Communities Agency must purchase burial grounds, although, for the life of me, I cannot think of a reason. The same argument could be reasonably applied to consecrated ground. I accept that there is a possible issue regarding town and community design when one is dealing with very large developments, but I would have thought that that would be exceedingly rare, and the actual ““need”” to purchase this land would have to be proved before such a situation arose.