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The second point I want to emphasise is that, if the local authority fails properly to advertise the sale, any interested person is entitled to challenge the sale within the three-month time limit that applies in the planning context. So the question we are debating is whether the purchaser should be bound by the trust years later, because of the failure of the local authority to advertise, when no one has brought a legal challenge within the applicable time limits and when the land has been bought by a bona fide purchaser.