The Housing (Right to Buy) (Designated Rural Area and Designated Region) (England) Order 2019

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order designates the parish of Abbotskerswell in the district of Teignbridge as a rural area under section 157(1)(c) of the Housing Act 1985 (“the Act”).

The county of Devon is the designated region under section 157(3) of the Act in relation to dwelling-houses in the parish of Abbotskerswell.

The effect of this order is to enable a local authority or housing association which sells a dwelling house in a designated rural area under Part 5 of the Act (the right to buy) to impose a covenant requiring its consent to any further disposal unless that further disposal is an exempted disposal under section 160 of the Act. Under section 157(3) of the Act that consent cannot be withheld if the disposal is to a person who has throughout the preceding 3 years had either their principal home or place of work in a designated region in which the designated rural area falls.

Similar covenants as to consent may also be imposed in relation to a dwelling-house in the area designated by this Order that is sold voluntarily by a local authority under section 32 of the Act.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no significant impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.