C1C2C3F1SCHEDULE 3B Broad rental market area determinations and local housing allowance determinations
Sch. 3B modified (28.1.2021) by The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Modification) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/1519), arts. 1, 2
Sch. 3B modified (31.1.2022) by The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Amendment and Modification) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1380), arts. 1(1), 5
Sch. 3B modified (31.1.2023) by The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Modification) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/6), arts. 1(1), 2
C1C2C3Broad rental market areaF25
A broad rental market area must contain—
a
residential premises of a variety of types, including such premises held on a variety of tenures; and
b
sufficient privately rented residential premises to ensure that, in the rent officer’s opinion, the local housing allowance for the categories of dwelling in the area for which the rent officer is required to determine a local housing allowance is representative of the rents that a landlord might reasonably be expected to obtain in that area.
Sch. 3B inserted (20.3.2008) by Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Amendment Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2871), arts. 1(3), 4(4) (with art. 2)