2001 No. 1501
HOUSING, ENGLAND
The Housing (Right to Acquire) (Discount) Order 2001
Made 19th April 2001
Laid before Parliament 27th April 2001
Coming into force 18th May 2001

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 17(1)(a) and (5) of the Housing Act 1996 hereby makes the following Order:—
1996 c. 52. The Secretary of State’s functions under section 17, so far as they are excercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I.1999/672), Article 2; see the entry in Schedule 1 for the Housing Act 1996.

1 Citation, commencement and interpretation
1 This Order may be cited as the Housing (Right to Acquire) (Discount) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 18th May 2001.
2 In this Order “area” means “county” or “district” as defined by section 270 of the Local Government Act 1972, a London borough or the City of London.
1972 c. 70.

2 Amount of Discount
1 Subject to paragraph (2), in relation to a dwelling in an area specified in Column 1 of the Schedule to this Order, the sum specified in Column 2 of that Schedule is the specified amount of discount for the purposes of section 17(1)(a) of the Housing Act 1996 (the right to acquire).
2 Where the amount of discount under paragraph (1) is greater than 50% of the value of the dwelling at the relevant time determined in accordance with section 127 of the Housing Act 1985, as it applies by virtue of regulation 2(1) of the Housing (Right to Acquire) Regulations 1997, the amount of discount shall be 50% of the value so determined of the dwelling.
1985 c. 68.
S.I.1997/619.

3 Revocation
The Housing (Right to Acquire) (Discount) Order 2000 is hereby revoked.
S.I.2000/1622.

4 Application
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 for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Nick Raynsford Minister of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 19th April 2001
SCHEDULE
Column 1	Column 2
Bath and North East Somerset	£11,000
Bedfordshire	
South Bedfordshire	£13,500
Bedford, Mid Bedfordshire	£11,000
Berkshire	
Windsor and Maidenhead	£16,000
Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Wokingham	£13,500
Blackburn and Darwen	£10,000
Blackpool	£10,000
Bournemouth	£11,000
Brighton and Hove	£13,500
City of Bristol	£11,000
Buckinghamshire	
Chiltern, South Buckinghamshire	£16,000
Aylesbury Vale, Wycombe	£13,500
Cambridgeshire	
Cambridge	£13,500
South Cambridge	£11,000
East Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire	£10,000
Fenland	£9,000
Cheshire	
Macclesfield	£11,000
Chester, Congleton, Vale Royal	£10,000
Crewe and Nantwich, Ellesmere Port and Neston	£9,000
Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly	
The Isles of Scilly	£16,000
Caradon, Carrick, Kerrier, North Cornwall, Penwith, Restormel	£10,000
Cumbria	
Barrow-in-Furness, Eden, South Lakeland	£10,000
Allerdale, Carlisle, Copeland	£9,000
Darlington	£10,000
Derby	£9,000
Derbyshire	
Derbyshire Dales, Erewash, High Peak, North East Derbyshire	£10,000
Amber Valley, Bolsover, Chesterfield, South Derbyshire	£9,000
Devon	£10,000
Dorset	£11,000
Durham	
Chester-le-Street, Derwentside, Durham	£10,000
Easington, Sedgefield, Teesdale, Wear Valley	£9,000
East Riding of Yorkshire	£10,000
East Sussex	£11,000
Essex	
Epping Forest	£16,000
Basildon, Brentwood, Chelmsford, Harlow, Uttlesford	£13,500
Braintree, Castle Point, Colchester, Maldon, Rochford	£11,000
Tendring	£10,000
Gloucestershire	
Cheltenham, Cotswold	£11,000
Forest of Dean, Gloucester, Stroud, Tewkesbury	£10,000
Greater London	
Barnet, Brent, Camden, City of London, Ealing, Enfield, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Haringey, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Kingston upon Thames, Lambeth, Merton, Richmond upon Thames, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth, Westminster	£16,000
Barking and Dagenham, Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Havering, Lewisham, Newham, Redbridge, Sutton, Waltham Forest	£13,500
Greater Manchester	
Stockport	£11,000
Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan	£10,000
Halton	£10,000
Hampshire	
Basingstoke and Dean, East Hampshire, Hart, Rushmoor, Winchester	£13,500
Eastleigh, Fareham, Gosport, Havant, New Forest, Test Valley	£11,000
Hartlepool	£9,000
Herefordshire	£10,000
Hertfordshire	
Dacorum, Hertsmere, Three Rivers, Watford	£16,000
Broxbourne, East Hertfordshire, St. Albans, Welwyn Hatfield	£13,500
North Hertfordshire, Stevenage	£11,000
Isle of Wight	£10,000
Kent	
Sevenoaks, Tonbridge and Malling, Tunbridge Wells	£13,500
Ashford, Canterbury, Dartford, Dover, Gravesham, Maidstone, Shepway, Swale, Thanet	£11,000
City of Kingston-upon-Hull	£10,000
Lancashire	
Chorley, Fylde, Lancaster, Preston, Ribble Valley, South Ribble, West Lancashire, Wyre	£10,000
Burnley, Hyndburn, Pendle, Rossendale	£9,000
Leicester	£10,000
Leicestershire	£10,000
Lincolnshire	£9,000
Luton	£11,000
The Medway Towns	£11,000
Merseyside	
Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens	£10,000
Wirral	£9,000
Middlesborough	£9,000
Milton Keynes	£11,000
Norfolk	
Broadland, King’s Lynn and West Norfolk, Norwich	£10,000
Breckland, Great Yarmouth, North Norfolk, South Norfolk	£9,000
Northamptonshire	
South Northamptonshire	£11,000
Corby, Daventry, East Northamptonshire, Kettering, Northampton, Wellingborough	£10,000
North East Lincolnshire	£9,000
North Lincolnshire	£9,000
North Somerset	£11,000
Northumberland	
Castle Morpeth, Tynedale	£10,000
Alnwick, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Blyth Valley, Wansbeck	£9,000
North Yorkshire	
Harrogate	£11,000
Craven, Hambleton, Richmondshire, Ryedale, Scarborough, Selby	£10,000
Nottingham	£10,000
Nottinghamshire	
Bassetlaw, Gedling, Newark and Sherwood, Rushcliffe	£10,000
Ashfield, Broxtowe, Mansfield	£9,000
Oxfordshire	
Oxford, South Oxfordshire, West Oxfordshire, Vale of White Horse	£13,500
Cherwell	£11,000
Peterborough	£10,000
Plymouth	£10,000
Poole	£11,000
Portsmouth	£11,000
Redcar and Cleveland	£9,000
Rutland	£10,000
Shropshire	
Bridgnorth, Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Atcham, South Shropshire	£10,000
North Shropshire	£9,000
Somerset	
Taunton Deane	£11,000
Mendip, Sedgemoor, South Somerset, West Somerset	£10,000
Southampton	£11,000
Southend-on-Sea	£11,000
South Gloucestershire	£11,000
South Yorkshire	
Doncaster, Sheffield	£10,000
Barnsley, Rotherham	£9,000
Staffordshire	
Cannock Chase, Lichfield, South Staffordshire, Stafford, Staffordshire Moorlands, Tamworth	£10,000
East Staffordshire, Newcastle-under-Lyme	£9,000
Stockton-on-Tees	£9,000
Stoke-on-Trent	£9,000
Suffolk	
Babergh, Forest Heath, Ipswich, Mid Suffolk, St Edmundsbury, Suffolk Coastal	£10,000
Waveney	£9,000
Surrey	£13,500
Swindon	£11,000
Telford and the Wrekin	£10,000
Thurrock	£11,000
Torbay	£10,000
Tyne and Wear	£10,000
Warrington	£10,000
Warwickshire	
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick	£11,000
North Warwickshire, Nuneaton and Bedworth, Rugby	£10,000
West Midlands	
Birmingham, Solihull	£11,000
Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall, Wolverhampton	£10,000
West Sussex	
Arun, Chichester, Crawley, Horsham, Mid Sussex	£13,500
Adur, Worthing	£11,000
West Yorkshire	
Bradford, Kirklees, Leeds	£10,000
Calderdale, Wakefield	£9,000
Wiltshire	£11,000
Worcestershire	
Malvern Hills, Worcester, Wychavon	£11,000
Bromsgrove, Redditch, Wyre Forest	£10,000
York	£10,000
Article 2(1)

(This note is not part of the Order)
Tenants of registered social landlords who have a right to acquire their homes under sections 16 and 17 of the 1996 Act are able to do so with a discount from the purchase price. This Order specifies for local authority areas in England the amount of discount to be given on the exercise of that right. The amount of the discount varies according to the area in which the dwelling is situated. In any event, the maximum discount a tenant may receive is limited by this Order to 50% of the market value of the dwelling.
The Order replaces the Housing (Right to Acquire) (Discount) Order 2000, and in doing so changes the amount of discount payable in 73 local authority areas.