493Standard of repair to be attained.
(1)The local housing authority shall not approve an application for a repairs grant unless they are satisfied that on completion of the relevant works the dwelling or, as the case may be, each of the dwellings to which the application relates will be in reasonable repair.
(2)If in the opinion of the authority the relevant works are more extensive than is necessary for the purpose of securing that the dwelling or dwellings attain that standard, the authority may, with the consent of the applicant, treat the application as varied so that the relevant works include only such works as seem to the authority to be necessasry for that purpose; and they may then approve the application as so varied.