Statutory Instruments
HOUSING, ENGLAND
Made
15th April 2002
Laid before Parliament
19th April 2002
Coming into force
10th May 2002
The Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 17(1)(a) and (5) of the Housing Act 1996(1) hereby makes the following Order:
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Housing (Right to Acquire) (Discount) Order 2002 and shall come into force on 10th May 2002.
(2) In this Order “area” means a county or district in England, a London borough, or the City of London.
2.—(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(2), as it applies by virtue of regulation 2(1) of the Housing (Right to Acquire) Regulations 1997(3), the amount of discount shall be 50% of the value so determined of the dwelling.
3. The Housing (Right to Acquire) (Discount) Order 2001(4) is hereby revoked.
4. 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 Transport, Local Government and the Regions.
Falconer
Minister of State,
Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
15th April 2002
Article 2(1)
| Column 1 | Column 2 |
|---|---|
| Bath and North East Somerset | £11,000 |
| Bedfordshire | |
| Bedford, Mid Bedfordshire, South Bedfordshire | £11,000 |
| Berkshire | |
| Reading, Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead, Wokingham | £16,000 |
| Bracknell Forest, West Berkshire | £13,500 |
| Blackburn with Darwen | £9,000 |
| Blackpool | £9,000 |
| Bournemouth | £11,000 |
| Brighton and Hove | £16,000 |
| Bristol | £13,500 |
| Buckinghamshire | |
| Chiltern, South Buckinghamshire | £16,000 |
| Aylesbury Vale, Wycombe | £13,500 |
| Cambridgeshire | |
| Cambridge | £16,000 |
| South Cambridge | £13,500 |
| East Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire | £11,000 |
| 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 |
| Carrick | £11,000 |
| Caradon, Kerrier, North Cornwall, Penwith, Restormel | £10,000 |
| Cumbria | |
| South Lakeland | £10,000 |
| Allerdale, Barrow-in-Furness, Carlisle, Copeland, Eden | £9,000 |
| Darlington | £9,000 |
| Derby | £9,000 |
| Derbyshire | |
| Derbyshire Dales, High Peak | £10,000 |
| Amber Valley, Bolsover, Chesterfield, Erewash, North East Derbyshire, South Derbyshire | £9,000 |
| Devon | |
| South Hams, West Devon | £11,000 |
| East Devon, Exeter, Mid Devon, North Devon, Teignbridge, Torridge | £10,000 |
| Dorset | |
| Christchurch, East Dorset | £13,500 |
| North Dorset, Purbeck, West Dorset | £11,000 |
| Weymouth and Portland | £10,000 |
| Durham | £9,000 |
| East Riding of Yorkshire | £9,000 |
| East Sussex | |
| Eastbourne | £16,000 |
| Wealden | £13,500 |
| Hastings, Lewes, Rother | £11,000 |
| Essex | |
| Brentwood, Epping Forest | £16,000 |
| Basildon, Chelmsford, Harlow, Uttlesford | £13,500 |
| Castle Point, Colchester, Maldon, Rochford | £11,000 |
| Braintree, Tendring | £10,000 |
| Gloucestershire | |
| Cheltenham, Cotswold | £13,500 |
| Forest of Dean, Gloucester, Stroud, Tewkesbury | £10,000 |
| Greater London | |
| Barnet, Bexley, Brent, Bromley, Camden, City of London, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Haringey, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Kingston upon Thames, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Richmond upon Thames, Southwark, Sutton, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth, Westminster | £16,000 |
| Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Waltham Forest | £13,500 |
| Barking and Dagenham | £11,000 |
| Greater Manchester | |
| Stockport | £11,000 |
| Manchester, Trafford | £10,000 |
| Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Tameside, Wigan | £9,000 |
| Halton | £9,000 |
| Hampshire | |
| Hart, Rushmoor, Winchester | £16,000 |
| Basingstoke and Dean, East Hampshire | £13,500 |
| Eastleigh, Fareham, Gosport, Havant, New Forest, Test Valley | £11,000 |
| Hartlepool | £9,000 |
| Herefordshire | £10,000 |
| Hertfordshire | |
| Broxbourne, Dacorum, Hertsmere, St. Albans, Three Rivers, Watford, Welwyn Hatfield | £16,000 |
| East Hertfordshire, North Hertfordshire, Stevenage | £13,500 |
| Isle of Wight | £10,000 |
| Kent | |
| Sevenoaks | £16,000 |
| Tonbridge and Malling, Tunbridge Wells | £13,500 |
| Dartford, Gravesham, Maidstone | £11,000 |
| Ashford, Canterbury, Dover, Shepway, Swale, Thanet | £10,000 |
| Kingston-upon-Hull | £9,000 |
| Lancashire | |
| Ribble Valley | £10,000 |
| Burnley, Chorley, Fylde, Hyndburn, Lancaster, Pendle, Preston, Rossendale, South Ribble, West Lancashire, Wyre | £ 9,000 |
| Leicester | £9,000 |
| Leicestershire | |
| Harborough | £10,000 |
| Blaby, Charnwood, Hinckley and Bosworth, Melton, North West Leicestershire, Oadby and Wigston | £9,000 |
| Lincolnshire | £9,000 |
| Luton | £10,000 |
| Medway | £10,000 |
| Merseyside | |
| Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens, Wirral | £9,000 |
| Middlesbrough | £9,000 |
| Milton Keynes | £10,000 |
| Norfolk | £9,000 |
| Northamptonshire | |
| Daventry, Northampton, South Northamptonshire | £10,000 |
| Corby, East Northamptonshire, Kettering, Wellingborough | £9,000 |
| North East Lincolnshire | £9,000 |
| North Lincolnshire | £9,000 |
| North Somerset | £13,500 |
| Northumberland | £9,000 |
| North Yorkshire | |
| Harrogate | £11,000 |
| Craven, Hambleton, Richmondshire, Ryedale, Selby | £10,000 |
| Scarborough | £9,000 |
| Nottingham | £9,000 |
| Nottinghamshire | |
| Rushcliffe | £10,000 |
| Ashfield, Bassetlaw, Broxtowe, Gedling, Mansfield, Newark and Sherwood | £9,000 |
| Oxfordshire | |
| Oxford | £16,000 |
| South Oxfordshire, West Oxfordshire, Vale of White Horse | £13,500 |
| Cherwell | £11,000 |
| Peterborough | £9,000 |
| Plymouth | £9,000 |
| Poole | £11,000 |
| Portsmouth | £11,000 |
| Redcar and Cleveland | £9,000 |
| Rutland | £10,000 |
| Shropshire | |
| Bridgnorth, Shrewsbury and Atcham, South Shropshire | £10,000 |
| Oswestry, 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 | |
| Sheffield | £10,000 |
| Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham | £9,000 |
| Staffordshire | |
| Lichfield | £10,000 |
| Cannock Chase, East Staffordshire, Newcastle-under-Lyme, South Staffordshire, Stafford, Staffordshire Moorlands, Tamworth | £ 9,000 |
| Stockton-on-Tees | £9,000 |
| Stoke-on-Trent | £9,000 |
| Suffolk | |
| St Edmundsbury | £11,000 |
| Babergh, Forest Heath, Ipswich, Mid Suffolk, Suffolk Coastal | £10,000 |
| Waveney | £9,000 |
| Surrey | £16,000 |
| Swindon | £11,000 |
| Telford and the Wrekin | £9,000 |
| Thurrock | £11,000 |
| Torbay | £10,000 |
| Tyne and Wear | £9,000 |
| Warrington | £9,000 |
| Warwickshire | |
| Stratford-upon-Avon | £16,000 |
| Warwick | £13,500 |
| North Warwickshire, Nuneaton and Bedworth, Rugby | £9,000 |
| West Midlands | |
| Solihull | £13,500 |
| Birmingham | £11,000 |
| Coventry | £10,000 |
| Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall, Wolverhampton | £9,000 |
| West Sussex | |
| Adur, Chichester, Crawley, Horsham, | £13,500 |
| Mid Sussex | |
| Arun, Worthing | £11,000 |
| West Yorkshire | |
| Leeds | £10,000 |
| Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Wakefield | £9,000 |
| Wiltshire | |
| Salisbury | £13,500 |
| Kennett, North Wiltshire | £11,000 |
| West Wiltshire | £10,000 |
| Worcestershire | |
| Malvern Hills, Worcester, Wychavon | £11,000 |
| Bromsgrove, Redditch | £10,000 |
| Wyre Forest | £9,000 |
| York | £10,000 |
(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 Housing Act 1996 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 2001, and in doing so changes the amount of discount payable in 146 local authority areas.
1996 c. 52. The Secretary of State’s functions under section 17, so far as they are exercisable 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), Art.2; see the entry in Schedule 1 for the Housing Act 1996.