§ Mr. Altonasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list in the Official Report the housing authorities that have applied for designation as rural areas to be excluded from the right-to-buy provisions of the Housing Act 1980.
§ Mr. StanleyAs at 4 December, 107 local authorities had applied for designation of all or part of their areas as rural areas under section 19 of the Housing Act 1980. They are listed below. The Act does not exclude dwellings situated in such areas from the right-to-buy, as the hon. Gentleman's question implies. It provides that where sales under the right-to-buy take place in such areas, the local authority may include in the conveyance or lease a covenant which either gives the landlord a 10-year right of pre-emption at market value or enables the landlord to require that the dwelling is resold to a person who has for she last three years lived or worked in a region designated by the Secretary of State.
List of local authorities:
- Allerdale
- Ashford
- Babergh
- Barnsley
- Berwick-upon-Tweed
- Beverley
- Bridgnorth
- Caradon
- Carrick
- Castle Morpeth
- Charnwood
- Cleethorpes
- Colchester
- Congleton
- Copeland
- Cotswold
- Craven
- Crewe and Nantwich
- Dacorum
- Dartford
- East Cambridgeshire
- East Devon
- East Hampshire
- Eden
- Epping Forest
- Forest of Dean
- Gedling
- Glanford
- Guildford
- Hambleton
- Harborough
- Harrogate
- Hart
- Hartlepool
- Horsham
- Huntingdon
- Kennet
- Kerrier
- Kirklees
404 - Leeds
- Leominster
- Maldon
- Medina
- Mid-Devon
- Mid-Suffolk
- Newbury
- New Forest
- North Cornwall
- North Devon
- North Dorset
- North Norfolk
- North Warwickshire
- North-West Leicestershire
- Oxford
- Pendle
- Penwith
- Peterborough
- Preston
- Purbeck
- Redditch
- Restormel
- Ribble Valley
- Richmondshire
- Rother
- Rushcliffe
- Ryedale
- St. Edmundsbury
- Salisbury
- Sedgemoor
- Sevenoaks
- Sheffield
- Shrewsbury and Atcham
- South Bucks
- South Cambridgeshire
- South Derbyshire
- South Hams
- South Herefordshire
- South Holland
- South Lakeland
- South Staffordshire
- South Wight
- Stroud
- Suffolk Coastal
- Tandridge
- Teignbridge
- Tewkesbury
- Thamesdown
- Teesdale
- The Wrekin
- Torridge
- Tunbridge Wells
- Tynedale
- Warwick
- Waverley
- Wealden
- Wear Valley
- Wellingborough
- West Derbyshire
- West Devon
- West Dorset
- West Lindsey
- West Somerset
- West Wiltshire
- Wimborne
- Winchester
- Wycombe
- Wyre Forest