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Housing and Regeneration Bill

The only circumstances in which the HCA might find itself in possession of a burial ground are because it would inherit it as a transfer of surplus land, for example. Certainly, over the past five or six years very strange pieces of land came into the possession of English Partnerships. I cannot recall a burial ground ever coming in but I recall a phone call one day when we inherited land near Chester Zoo, when one of my officials was very perplexed to find that he had dug up a giraffe with anthrax. That was without a doubt the most exotic thing that ever happened to us. But I can foresee circumstances in which the HCA might inherit a burial ground or part of one that might have been annexed to an old hospital or some other institution that came into its possession.