Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Housing (Right to Acquire) (Discount) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st April 1997.

(2) In this Order "area" means a "local government area" as defined by section 270 of the Local Government Act 1972(2).

Amounts of Discount

2. The following amounts of discount are specified for the purpose of section 17(1)(a) of the Housing Act 1996 (the right to acquire)-

(a)£16,000 where a dwelling is in one of the areas specified in Schedule 1 to this Order;

(b)£13,500 where a dwelling is in one of the areas specified in Schedule 2 to this Order;

(c)£11,000 where a dwelling is in one of the areas specified in Schedule 3 to this Order;

(d)£10,000 where a dwelling is in one of the areas specified in Schedule 4 to this Order; and

(e)£9,000 where a dwelling is in one of the areas specified in Schedule 5 to this Order.

Article 2(a)

SCHEDULE 1DISCOUNT OF £16,000

PART IGREATER LONDON

Barnet,

Brent,

Camden,

City of London,

Ealing,

Hackney,

Hammersmith & Fulham,

Haringey,

Harrow,

Hillingdon,

Hounslow,

Islington,

Kensington & Chelsea,

Kingston upon Thames,

Lambeth,

Merton,

Richmond upon Thames,

Southwark,

Tower Hamlets,

Wandsworth,

Westminster.

PART IICORNWALL AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY

The Isles of Scilly.

Article 2(b)

SCHEDULE 2DISCOUNT OF £13,500

PART IGREATER LONDON

Barking & Dagenham,

Bexley,

Bromley,

Croydon,

Enfield,

Greenwich,

Havering,

Lewisham,

Newham,

Redbridge,

Sutton,

Waltham Forest.

PART IIBERKSHIRE

Bracknell Forest,

Slough,

Windsor & Maidenhead,

Wokingham.

PART IIIBUCKINGHAMSHIRE

Chiltern,

South Buckinghamshire.

PART IVCAMBRIDGESHIRE

Cambridge.

PART VESSEX

Brentwood,

Epping Forest,

Harlow.

PART VIHAMPSHIRE

Hart,

Rushmoor.

PART VIIHERTFORDSHIRE

Broxbourne,

Dacorum,

East Hertfordshire,

Hertsmere,

St Albans,

Stevenage,

Three Rivers,

Watford,

Welwyn Hatfield.

PART VIIIKENT

Sevenoaks,

Tonbridge & Malling.

PART IXOXFORDSHIRE

Oxford.

PART XSURREY

Elmbridge,

Epsom & Ewell,

Guildford,

Mole Valley,

Reigate & Banstead,

Runnymede,

Spelthorne,

Surrey Heath,

Tandridge,

Waverley,

Woking.

Article 2(c)

SCHEDULE 3DISCOUNT OF £11,000

PART IBEDFORDSHIRE

Mid Bedfordshire,

South Bedfordshire.

PART IIBERKSHIRE

Newbury,

Reading.

PART IIIBUCKINGHAMSHIRE

Aylesbury Vale,

Wycombe.

PART IVCAMBRIDGESHIRE

South Cambridgeshire.

PART VDORSET

Christchurch,

East Dorset,

Purbeck,

West Dorset,

Weymouth & Portland.

PART VIEAST SUSSEX

Eastbourne,

Lewes,

Wealden.

PART VIIESSEX(3)

Basildon,

Castle Point,

Chelmsford,

Maldon,

Rochford,

Southend-on-Sea,

Thurrock,

Uttlesford.

PART VIIIGLOUCESTERSHIRE

Cheltenham,

Cotswold.

PART IXHAMPSHIRE

Basingstoke & Deane,

East Hampshire,

New Forest,

Test Valley,

Winchester.

PART XHERTFORDSHIRE

North Hertfordshire.

PART XIKENT(4)

Ashford,

Canterbury,

Dartford,

Dover,

Gravesham,

Maidstone,

Rochester upon Medway,

Tunbridge Wells.

PART XIIOXFORDSHIRE

South Oxfordshire,

West Oxfordshire,

Vale of White Horse.

PART XIIIWARWICKSHIRE

Stratford-upon-Avon,

Warwick.

PART XIVWEST MIDLANDS

Solihull.

PART XVWEST SUSSEX

Adur,

Arun,

Chichester,

Crawley,

Horsham,

Mid Sussex,

Worthing.

PART XVIWILTSHIRE

Salisbury.

PART XVIIOTHER AREAS(5)

Bath & North East Somerset,

Brighton & Hove,

Luton,

Poole.

Article 2(d)

SCHEDULE 4DISCOUNT OF £10,000

PART IBEDFORDSHIRE

North Bedfordshire.

PART IICAMBRIDGESHIRE(6)

East Cambridgeshire,

Huntingdonshire,

Peterborough.

PART IIICHESHIRE(7)

Chester,

Congleton,

Crewe & Nantwich,

Ellesmere Port and Neston,

Halton,

Macclesfield,

Vale Royal,

Warrington.

PART IVCORNWALL & THE ISLES OF SCILLY

Carrick,

Penwith.

PART VCUMBRIA

Allerdale,

Barrow-in-Furness,

Carlisle,

Copeland,

Eden,

South Lakeland.

PART VIDERBYSHIRE

Chesterfield,

Derbyshire Dales,

High Peak,

North East Derbyshire.

PART VIIDEVON(8)

East Devon,

Exeter,

Mid Devon,

North Devon,

Plymouth,

South Hams,

Teignbridge,

Torbay,

West Devon.

PART VIIIDORSET

North Dorset.

PART IXDURHAM

Durham,

Easington.

PART XEAST SUSSEX

Hastings,

Rother.

PART XIESSEX

Braintree,

Colchester,

Tendring.

PART XIIGLOUCESTERSHIRE

Forest of Dean,

Gloucester,

Stroud,

Tewkesbury.

PART XIIIGREATER MANCHESTER

Bolton,

Bury,

Manchester,

Salford,

Stockport,

Tameside,

Trafford,

Wigan.

PART XIVHAMPSHIRE

Eastleigh,

Fareham,

Gosport,

Havant.

PART XVHEREFORD & WORCESTER(9)

Bromsgrove,

Hereford,

Leominster,

Malvern Hills,

Redditch,

South Herefordshire,

Worcester,

Wychavon,

Wyre Forest.

PART XVIKENT(10)

Gillingham,

Shepway,

Swale,

Thanet.

PART XVIILANCASHIRE(11)

Blackburn,

Blackpool,

Burnley,

Chorley,

Fylde,

Hyndburn,

Lancaster,

Pendle,

Preston,

Ribble Valley,

Rossendale,

South Ribble,

West Lancashire,

Wyre.

PART XVIIILEICESTERSHIRE

Blaby,

Harborough,

Oadby & Wigston.

PART XIXMERSEYSIDE

Knowsley,

Liverpool,

Sefton,

St Helens,

Wirral.

PART XXNORFOLK

Broadland,

Norwich.

PART XXINORTH YORKSHIRE

Craven,

Hambleton,

Harrogate,

Richmondshire,

Ryedale,

Scarborough,

Selby.

PART XXIINORTHAMPTONSHIRE

Corby,

Daventry,

East Northamptonshire,

Kettering,

Northampton,

South Northamptonshire,

Wellingborough.

PART XXIIINORTHUMBERLAND

Alnwick,

Berwick-upon-Tweed,

Blyth Valley,

Castle Morpeth,

Tynedale,

Wansbeck.

PART XXIVOXFORDSHIRE

Cherwell.

PART XXVSHROPSHIRE(12)

Bridgnorth,

Oswestry,

Shrewsbury and Atcham,

South Shropshire,

The Wrekin.

PART XXVISOMERSET

Mendip,

Sedgemoor,

South Somerset,

Taunton Deane,

West Somerset.

PART XXVIISOUTH YORKSHIRE

Doncaster,

Sheffield.

PART XXVIIISTAFFORDSHIRE

Cannock Chase,

East Staffordshire,

Lichfield,

South Staffordshire,

Stafford,

Staffordshire Moorlands,

Tamworth.

PART XXIXSUFFOLK

Ipswich,

St Edmundsbury,

Suffolk Coastal.

PART XXXTYNE AND WEAR

Gateshead,

Newcastle upon Tyne,

North Tyneside,

South Tyneside,

Sunderland.

PART XXXIWARWICKSHIRE

North Warwickshire,

Rugby.

PART XXXIIWEST MIDLANDS

Birmingham,

Coventry,

Dudley,

Sandwell,

Walsall,

Wolverhampton.

PART XXXIIIWEST YORKSHIRE

Bradford,

Leeds,

Wakefield.

PART XXXIVWILTSHIRE

Kennet,

North Wiltshire,

West Wiltshire.

PART XXXVOTHER AREAS(13)

Bristol,

Leicester,

Darlington,

East Riding of Yorkshire,

Hartlepool,

Isle of Wight,

Kingston upon Hull,

Middlesborough,

Milton Keynes,

North Somerset,

Portsmouth,

Redcar & Cleveland,

Rutland,

South Gloucestershire,

Southampton,

Stoke-on-Trent,

Thamesdown,

York.

Article 2(e)

SCHEDULE 5DISCOUNT OF £9,000

PART ICAMBRIDGESHIRE

Fenland.

PART IICORNWALL AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY

Caradon,

Kerrier,

North Cornwall,

Restormel.

PART IIIDERBYSHIRE

Amber Valley,

Bolsover,

Erewash,

South Derbyshire.

PART IVDEVON

Torridge.

PART VDURHAM

Chester-le-Street,

Derwentside,

Sedgefield,

Teesdale,

Wear Valley.

PART VIGREATER MANCHESTER

Oldham,

Rochdale.

PART VIILEICESTERSHIRE

Charnwood,

Hinckley and Bosworth,

Melton,

North West Leicestershire.

PART VIIILINCOLNSHIRE

Boston,

East Lindsey,

Lincoln,

North Kesteven,

South Holland,

South Kesteven,

West Lindsey.

PART IXNORFOLK

Breckland,

Great Yarmouth,

King's Lynn and West Norfolk,

North Norfolk,

South Norfolk.

PART XNOTTINGHAMSHIRE(14)

Ashfield,

Bassetlaw,

Broxtowe,

Gedling,

Mansfield,

Newark and Sherwood,

Nottingham,

Rushcliffe.

PART XISHROPSHIRE

North Shropshire.

PART XIISOUTH YORKSHIRE

Barnsley,

Rotherham.

PART XIIISTAFFORDSHIRE

Newcastle-under-Lyme.

PART XIVSUFFOLK

Babergh,

Forest Heath,

Mid Suffolk,

Waveney.

PART XVWARWICKSHIRE

Nuneaton and Bedworth.

PART XVIWEST YORKSHIRE

Calderdale,

Kirklees.

PART XVIIOTHER AREAS(15)

Derby,

North Lincolnshire,

North East Lincolnshire,

Stockton-on-Tees.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order specifies 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 will be able to do so with a discount from the purchase price. The amount of the discount will vary according to the area in which the dwelling is situated.