Land now £25,000
By Philip Wade
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an acre THE AVERAGE price of building land per acre during 1972 was more than £25,000 and the average price of an individual plot £5,000.
This was stated yesterday in the Digest of Building Land Prices', a new publication produced jointly by the Housebuilders' Federation and the Estates Gazette.
There were wide variations in land prices from area to area. An acre in Yorkshire cost less than £10,000 and an acre in Surrey fetched £100,000.
Individual plot prices ranged from €1,000 to more than €20,000.
SIT-IN strikers from the CAV factory at Fazakerley in Liverpool met leaders of the Liverpool Trades Council last night in a bid to win wider . support for their 16-week fight against closure. Workers at the Lucas Industrial Equipment factory, which occupies the same site as CAV, worked in without supervision or management for the second day running yesterday. They have accepted passes issued by the CAV occupation committee for entering and leaving the site. Lucas management refuses to accept the pass system and will not pay the LIE workers for their work. fight the threatened closure.
pletely in January next year.
35-acre site.
'The managing director told us the land had a f3.5m book value, but that the real value was something like £6m» value