§ '. Part XV of the Housing Act 1985 (grants for work of improvement, repair and conversion) is amended in accordance with Schedule (COMMONS PARTS GRANTS) so as to provide for a new form of grant towards the costs of works required for the improvement or repair of the common parts of a building containing one or more flats.'.—[Mr. Robert B. Jones.]
§ Brought up, and read the First time.
§ Mr. Robert B. Jones (Hertfordshire, West)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Paul Deal)With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: new clause 16—Grants for flats and maisonettes—
'For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that a repair and improvement grant under the Housing Act 1985 may be given notwithstanding that the repair or improvement benefits more than one dwelling house or flat.'.Amendment No. 1, new schedule—Common Parts Grants—
§ 1. — (1) Section 460 of the Housing Act 1985 (general description of main grants) is amended as follows.
§ (2) In subsection (1) omit the word "and" after the reference to special grants and after the reference to repairs grants insert "common parts grants (sections 498A to 498G)".
§ (3) In subsection (2) for paragraphs (b) and (c) substitute—"
- (b) the improvement or repair of dwellings,
- (c) the improvement or repair of the common parts of a building including one or more flats, and"
§ 2. In section 462(1) of the Housing Act 1985 (preliminary condition for grants: the age of the property), after paragraph (b) insert ", or
- (c) a common parts grant in respect of a building which was erected after 2nd October 1961.".
§ 3. In section 463(1) of the Housing Act 1985 (preliminary condition for eligibility for grant: the interest of the applicant in 502 the property) for "may entertain an application for a grant only if' substitute "shall not entertain an application for a grant, other than an application for a common parts grant, unless".
§ 4. After section 464 of the Housing Act 1985 insert—