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It seems to me that, if I am promoting a project and want to build a railway line or a bridge or whatever, it remains open to me at any time to go to any landowner and say, "I want to buy this," or, "I want to buy that."
To be honest, if they are going to buy in those shops, they will not want to trudge all the stuff that they can buy there back to Birmingham when they can go to the Bullring and do the same.
We have already begun to do that in other pieces of legislation dealing with access to land, the community right to buy and the Scottish outdoor access code.
First, the prospective chief executive of the single authority referred to the efficiency of bulk buying. The new single authority will be a large consumer of services and will undoubtedly be able to benefit from bulk buying.