Housing Act 1985

473 Improvement grants: determination of amount.

(1) The amount of an improvement grant shall be fixed by the local housing authority when they approve the application, and shall not exceed the appropriate percentage of the eligible expense.

(2) The authority shall notify the applicant of the amount of the grant together with the notification under section 471(1) (notification of estimated expense of relevant works).

(3) Where the authority redetermine the amount of the estimated expense under section 471(3) (new estimate where works cannot be carried out in accordance with original estimate), they shall make such other adjustments relating to the amount of the grant as appear to them to be appropriate; but the amount of the grant shall not be increased beyond the amount which could have been notified when the application was approved if the estimate contained in the application had been of the same amount as the further estimate.

(4) Where the authority redetermine the amount of the estimated expense under section 471(4) (re-determination where additional works prove necessary), the eligible expense under section 472 shall be re-calculated and if on the recalculation the amount of the eligible expense is greater than it was at the time when the application was approved, the amount of the grant shall be increased and the applicant notified accordingly.