1998 No. 2014
The Housing (Right To Acquire) (Discount) Order 1998
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, as respects England, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 17(1) and (5) of the Housing Act 19961 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:
Citation, commencement and interpretation1
1
This Order may be cited as the Housing (Right To Acquire) (Discount) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 9th September 1998.
2
In this Order “area” means a “county” or “district” as defined by section 270 of the Local Government Act 19722, a London borough or the City of London.
Amounts of Discount2
The following amounts of discount are specified for the purpose of section 17(1)(a) of the Housing Act 1996 (the right to acquire)—
a
£16,000 where a dwelling is in one of the areas specified in Schedule 1 to this Order;
b
£13,500 where a dwelling is in one of the areas specified in Schedule 2 to this Order;
c
£11,000 where a dwelling is in one of the areas specified in Schedule 3 to this Order;
d
£10,000 where a dwelling is in one of the areas specified in Schedule 4 to this Order; and
e
£9,000 where a dwelling is in one of the areas specified in Schedule 5 to this Order.
Revocation3
The Housing (Right to Acquire) (Discount) Order 19973 is hereby revoked.
Application4
Articles 1 to 3 of this Order do not apply in a case where a notice has been served claiming to exercise the right to acquire before this Order comes into force.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
SCHEDULE 1DISCOUNT OF £16,000
PART IBUCKINGHAMSHIRE
South Buckinghamshire.
PART 2CORNWALL AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY
The Isles of Scilly.
PART 3GREATER LONDON
Barnet,
Brent,
Camden,
City of London,
Ealing,
Hackney,
Hammersmith & Fulham,
Haringey,
Harrow,
Hillingdon,
Hounslow,
Islington,
Kensington & Chelsea,
Kingston upon Thames,
Lambeth,
Merton,
Richmond upon Thames,
Southwark,
Tower Hamlets,
Wandsworth,
Westminster.
PART 4HERTFORDSHIRE
Three Rivers.
SCHEDULE 2DISCOUNT OF £13,500
PART 1BERKSHIRE
Bracknell Forest,
Slough,
Windsor & Maidenhead,
Wokingham.
PART 2BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
Chiltern,
Wycombe.
PART 3CAMBRIDGESHIRE
Cambridge.
PART 4ESSEX
Brentwood,
Epping Forest,
Harlow.
PART 5GREATER LONDON
Barking & Dagenham,
Bexley,
Bromley,
Croydon,
Enfield,
Greenwich,
Havering,
Lewisham,
Newham,
Redbridge,
Sutton,
Waltham Forest.
PART 6HAMPSHIRE
Basingstoke & Deane,
East Hampshire,
Hart,
Rushmoor,
Winchester.
PART 7HERTFORDSHIRE
Broxbourne,
Dacorum,
East Hertfordshire,
Hertsmere,
North Hertfordshire,
St Albans,
Stevenage,
Watford,
Welwyn Hatfield.
PART 8KENT
Sevenoaks,
Tonbridge & Malling.
PART 9OXFORDSHIRE
Oxford.
PART 10SURREY
Elmbridge,
Epsom & Ewell,
Guildford,
Mole Valley,
Reigate & Banstead,
Runnymede,
Spelthorne,
Surrey Heath,
Tandridge,
Waverley,
Woking.
PART 11WEST SUSSEX
Crawley,
Mid Sussex.
SCHEDULE 3
PART 1BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET
Bath and North East Somerset.
PART 2BEDFORDSHIRE
Mid Bedfordshire,
North Bedfordshire,
South Bedfordshire.
PART 3BERKSHIRE
West Berkshire,
Reading.
PART 4BOURNEMOUTH
Bournemouth.
PART 5BRIGHTON AND HOVE
Brighton and Hove.
PART 6BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
Aylesbury Vale.
PART 7CAMBRIDGESHIRE
South Cambridgeshire.
PART 8CHESHIRE
Chester,
Macclesfield.
PART 9CITY OF BRISTOL
City of Bristol.
PART 10CUMBRIA
Barrow-in-Furness,
South Lakeland.
PART 11DEVON
East Devon,
North Devon,
South Hams.
PART 12DORSET
Christchurch,
East Dorset,
North Dorset,
Purbeck,
West Dorset,
Weymouth & Portland.
PART 13DURHAM
Durham.
PART 14EAST SUSSEX
Eastbourne,
Lewes,
Wealden.
PART 15ESSEX
Basildon,
Castle Point,
Chelmsford,
Colchester,
Maldon,
Rochford,
Uttlesford.
PART 16GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Cheltenham,
Cotswold.
PART 17GREATER MANCHESTER
Manchester,
Stockport,
Tameside,
Trafford.
PART 18HAMPSHIRE
Eastleigh,
Fareham,
Gosport,
Havant,
New Forest,
Test Valley.
PART 19KENT
Ashford,
Canterbury,
Dartford,
Dover,
Gravesham,
Maidstone,
Swale,
Thanet,
Tunbridge Wells.
PART 20LANCASHIRE
Fylde,
Ribble Valley,
West Lancashire.
PART 21LUTON
Luton.
PART 22MEDWAY TOWNS
Medway Towns.
PART 23MERSEYSIDE
Liverpool.
PART 24MILTON KEYNES
Milton Keynes.
PART 25NORTH SOMERSET
North Somerset.
PART 26NORTH YORKSHIRE
Harrogate.
PART 27OXFORDSHIRE
Cherwell,
South Oxfordshire,
Vale of White Horse,
West Oxfordshire.
PART 28POOLE
Poole.
PART 29PORTSMOUTH
Portsmouth.
PART 30SOUTHAMPTON
Southampton.
PART 31SOUTHEND-ON-SEA
Southend-on-Sea.
PART 32SOUTH YORKSHIRE
Sheffield.
PART 33SWINDON
Swindon.
PART 34THURROCK
Thurrock.
PART 35TYNE AND WEAR
North Tyneside.
PART 36WARWICKSHIRE
Stratford-upon-Avon,
Warwick.
PART 37WEST MIDLANDS
Birmingham,
Solihull.
PART 38WEST SUSSEX
Adur,
Arun,
Chichester,
Horsham,
Worthing.
PART 39WEST YORKSHIRE
Leeds.
PART 40WILTSHIRE
Kennet,
North Wiltshire,
Salisbury,
West Wiltshire.
PART 41WORCESTERSHIRE
Bromsgrove.
PART 42YORK
York.
SCHEDULE 4DISCOUNT OF £10,000
PART 1BLACKBURN
Blackburn.
PART 2BLACKPOOL
Blackpool.
PART 3CAMBRIDGESHIRE
East Cambridgeshire,
Huntingdonshire.
PART 4CHESHIRE
Congleton,
Crewe & Nantwich,
Ellesmere Port and Neston,
Vale Royal.
PART 5CITY OF KINGSON-UPON-HULL
City of Kingston-Upon-Hull.
PART 6CORNWALL & THE ISLES OF SCILLY
Caradon,
Carrick,
Kerrier,
North Cornwall,
Penwith,
Restormel.
PART 7CUMBRIA
Allerdale,
Carlisle,
Copeland,
Eden.
PART 8DARLINGTON
Darlington.
PART 9DERBYSHIRE
Chesterfield,
Derbyshire Dales,
Erewash,
High Peak,
North East Derbyshire,
South Derbyshire.
PART 10DEVON
Exeter,
Mid Devon,
Teignbridge,
Torridge,
West Devon.
PART 11DURHAM
Chester-le-Street,
Derwentside,
Easington,
Sedgefield,
Teeside,
Wear Valley.
PART 12EAST RIDING OF YORKSHRIE
East Riding of Yorkshire.
PART 13EAST SUSSEX
Hastings,
Rother.
PART 14ESSEX
Braintree,
Tendring.
PART 15GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Forest of Dean,
Gloucester,
Stroud,
Tewkesbury.
PART 16GREATER MANCHESTER
Bolton,
Bury,
Oldham,
Rochdale,
Salford,
Wigan.
PART 17HALTON
Halton.
PART 18HARTLEPOOL
Hartlepool.
PART 19HEREFORDSHIRE
Herefordshire.
PART 20ISLE OF WIGHT
Isle of Wight.
PART 21KENT
Shepway.
PART 22LANCASHIRE
Burnley,
Chorley,
Hyndburn,
Lancaster,
Pendle,
Preston,
Rossendale,
South Ribble,
Wyre.
PART 23LEICESTER
Leicester.
PART 24LEICESTERSHIRE
Blaby,
Charnwood,
Harborough,
Melton,
North West Leicestershire,
Oadby & Wigston.
PART 25LINCOLNSHIRE
Lincoln,
North Kesteven.
PART 26MERSEYSIDE
Knowsley,
Sefton,
St Helens,
Wirral.
PART 27MIDDLESBROUGH
Middlesbrough.
PART 28NORFOLK
Broadland,
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk,
Norwich.
PART 29NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE
North East Lincolnshire.
PART 30NORTH YORKSHIRE
Craven,
Hambleton,
Richmondshire,
Ryedale,
Scarborough,
Selby.
PART 31NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
Corby,
Daventry,
East Northamptonshire,
Kettering,
Northampton,
South Northamptonshire,
Wellingborough.
PART 32NORTHUMBERLAND
Alnwick,
Berwick-upon-Tweed,
Blyth Valley,
Castle Morpeth,
Tynedale,
Wansbeck.
PART 33NOTTINGHAM
Nottingham.
PART 34NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
Bassetlaw,
Broxtowe,
Gedling,
Rushcliffe.
PART 35PETERBOROUGH
Peterborough.
PART 36PLYMOUTH
Plymouth.
PART 37REDCAR AND CLEVELAND
Redcar and Cleveland.
PART 38RUTLAND
Rutland.
PART 39SHROPSHIRE
Bridgnorth,
North Shropshire,
Oswestry,
Shrewsbury and Atcham,
South Shropshire.
PART 40SOMERSET
Mendip,
Sedgemoor,
South Somerset,
Taunton Deane,
West Somerset.
PART 41SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
South Gloucestershire.
PART 42SOUTH YORKSHIRE
Barnsley,
Doncaster,
Rotherham.
PART 43STAFFORDSHIRE
Cannock Chase,
East Staffordshire,
Lichfield,
Newcastle-under-Lyme,
South Staffordshire,
Stafford,
Staffordshire Moorlands,
Tamworth.
PART 44STOCKTON-ON-TEES
Stockton-on-Tees.
PART 45STOKE-ON-TRENT
Stoke-on-Trent.
PART 46SUFFOLK
Babergh,
Forest Heath,
Ipswich,
St Edmundsbury,
Suffolk Coastal.
PART 47THE WREKIN
The Wrekin.
PART 48TORBAY
Torbay.
PART 49TYNE AND WEAR
Gateshead,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
South Tyneside,
Sunderland.
PART 50WARRINGTON
Warrington.
PART 51WARWICKSHIRE
North Warwickshire,
Rugby.
PART 52WEST MIDLANDS
Coventry,
Dudley,
Sandwell,
Walsall,
Wolverhampton.
PART 53WEST YORKSHIRE
Bradford,
Calderdale,
Kirklees,
Wakefield.
PART 54WORCESTERSHIRE
Malvern Hills,
Redditch,
Worcester,
Wychavon,
Wyre Forest.
SCHEDULE 5DISCOUNT OF £9,000
PART 1CAMBRIDGESHIRE
Fenland.
PART 2DERBY
Derby.
PART 3DERBYSHIRE
Amber Valley,
Bolsover.
PART 4LEICESTERSHIRE
Hinckley and Bosworth.
PART 5LINCOLNSHIRE
Boston,
East Lindsey,
South Holland,
South Kesteven,
West Lindsey.
PART 6NORFOLK
Breckland,
Great Yarmouth,
North Norfolk,
South Norfolk.
PART 7NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE
North Lincolnshire.
PART 8NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
Ashfield,
Mansfield,
Newark and Sherwood.
PART 9SUFFOLK
Mid Suffolk,
Waveney.
PART 10WARWICKSHIRE
Nuneaton and Bedworth.
(This note is not part of the Order)