2000 No. 1622
HOUSING, ENGLAND

The Housing (Right to Acquire) (Discount) Order 2000

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
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 19961 hereby makes the following Order:—

Citation, commencement and interpretation1.

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Housing (Right to Acquire) (Discount) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 17th July 2000.

(2)

In this Order “area” means “county” or “district” as defined in relation to England by section 270 of the Local Government Act 19722, a London borough or the City of London.

Amount of discount2.

(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 19853, as it applies by virtue of regulation 2(1) of the Housing (Right to Acquire) Regulations 19974, the amount of discount shall be 50% of the value so determined of the dwelling.

Revocation3.

The Housing (Right to Acquire) (Discount) Order 19995 and the Housing (Right to Acquire) (Discount) (Amendment) Order 19996 are 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 for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Nick Raynsford
Minister of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

SCHEDULE

Article 2(1)

Column 1

Column 2

Bath and North East Somerset

£11,000

Bedfordshire

£10,000

Berkshire

Windsor and Maidenhead

£16,000

Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Wokingham

£13,500

Blackburn and Darwen

£10,000

Blackpool

£11,000

Bournemouth

£11,000

Brighton and Hove

£11,000

City of Bristol

£11,000

Buckinghamshire

South Buckinghamshire

£16,000

Chiltern, Wycombe

£13,500

Aylesbury Vale

£11,000

Cambridgeshire

Cambridge

£13,500

Huntingdonshire, South Cambridge

£11,000

East Cambridgeshire, Fenland

£10,000

Cheshire

Macclesfield

£11,000

Chester, Congleton, Crewe and Nantwich, Ellesmere Port and Neston, Vale Royal

£10,000

Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly

The Isles of Scilly

£16,000

Caradon, Carrick, Kerrier, North Cornwall, Penwith, Restormel

£10,000

Cumbria

£10,000

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

South Hams, Teignbridge, West Devon

£11,000

East Devon, Exeter, Mid Devon, North Devon, Torridge

£10,000

Dorset

Christchurch

£13,500

East Dorset, North Dorset, Purbeck, West Dorset, Weymouth and Portland

£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

£13,500

Basildon, Brentwood, Castle Point, Chelmsford, Harlow, Rochford, Uttlesford

£11,000

Braintree, Colchester, Maldon, 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, 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, Greenwich, Lewisham, Newham, Redbridge, Sutton, Waltham Forest

£13,500

Havering

£11,000

Greater Manchester

Manchester, Rochdale, Stockport, Trafford

£11,000

Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Salford, Tameside, Wigan

£10,000

Halton

£10,000

Hampshire

Basingstoke and Dean, East Hampshire, Hart, Rushmoor

£13,500

Eastleigh, Fareham, Gosport, Havant, New Forest, Test Valley, Winchester

£11,000

Hartlepool

£9,000

Herefordshire

£10,000

Hertfordshire

Three Rivers

£16,000

Broxbourne, Dacorum, Hertsmere, St. Albans, Watford, Welwyn Hatfield

£13,500

East Hertfordshire, North Hertfordshire, Stevenage

£11,000

Isle of Wight

£10,000

Kent

Sevenoaks, Tonbridge and Malling

£13,500

Ashford, Canterbury, Dartford, Gravesham, Maidstone, Swale, Tunbridge Wells

£11,000

Dover, Shepway, Thanet

£10,000

City of Kingston-upon-Hull

£10,000

Lancashire

Fylde, Preston, Ribble Valley, West Lancashire, Wyre

£11,000

Burnley, Chorley, Hyndburn, Lancaster, Pendle, Rossendale, South Ribble

£10,000

Leicester

£10,000

Leicestershire

£10,000

Lincolnshire

Lincoln, North Kesteven

£10,000

Boston, East Lindsey, South Holland, South Kesteven, West Lindsey

£9,000

Luton

£11,000

The Medway Towns

£11,000

Merseyside

£10,000

Middlesbrough

£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

£10,000

North East Lincolnshire

£9,000

North Lincolnshire

£9,000

North Somerset

£11,000

Northumberland

Alnwick, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Castle Morpeth, Tynedale

£10,000

Byth Valley, Wansbeck

£9,000

North Yorkshire

Harrogate

£11,000

Craven, Hambleton, Richmondshire, Ryedale, Scarborough, Selby

£10,000

Nottingham

£10,000

Nottinghamshire

Gedling, Rushcliffe

£10,000

Ashfield, Bassetlaw, Broxtowe, Mansfield, Newark and Sherwood

£9,000

Oxfordshire

Oxford, West Oxfordshire

£13,500

Cherwell, South Oxfordshire, Vale of White Horse

£11,000

Peterborough

£10,000

Plymouth

£11,000

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

£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

£11,000

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

Crawley, Horsham

£13,500

Adur, Arun, Chichester, Mid Sussex, Worthing

£11,000

West Yorkshire

£10,000

Wiltshire

£11,000

Worcestershire

Bromsgrove

£11,000

Malvern Hills, Redditch, Worcester, Wychavon, Wyre Forest

£10,000

York

£11,000

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order specifies for local authority areas in England the amount of discount for the purposes of section 17 of the Housing Act 1996 (the right to acquire). 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. The amount of the discount varies according to the area in which the dwelling is situated. However, 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 1999, as amended, and in doing so changes the amount of discount payable in 43 local authority areas.