15 April, 2015
14 April, 2015
Key pledges include extending the Right to Buy to housing association tenants.
13 April, 2015
Key pledges include legislation to make three year tenancies the norm.
2 April, 2015
[2015] UKSC 275
2 April, 2015
New report from the National Housing Federation calls for affordable homes designed for older people with integrated care services to be built, and say that it’s essential that homes designed to suit older people are given as much priority as homes designed for first-time buyers and younger families.
2 April, 2015
Information from the Homes and Communities Agency about the regulatory framework which is made up of regulatory requirements, codes of practice, and regulatory guidance.
1 April, 2015
1 April, 2015
Report's finding include that bedroom tax has led to empty homes in some parts of the country as many social landlords in the North and the Midlands have surplus larger properties, and that often tenants simply can’t find a smaller unit to move too.
1 April, 2015
Guidance expands upon the Rent Standard, explaining how social housing rents are set and covers many other aspects of rent policy and interpretation.
31 March, 2015
New Scottish Government statistics show that Scottish Local Authorities received around 7,900 applications for homelessness assistance during October to December 2014, 5 per cent lower than in the same period in 2013.
30 March, 2015
Housing Minister sets out details of Right to Buy Social Mobility Fund which will particularly help those looking to move for work, to be nearer to family, or those whose properties are difficult to mortgage.
30 March, 2015
DCLG publishes summary of responses and confirms that it will remove the Pre-emption right following 100 per cent staircasing and undertake a review of shared ownership focusing on possible longer term options for change to report to Minsters in the summer.
30 March, 2015
New report finds that renters continue to be subject to poor levels of service and variable, often inexplicably high fees, and calls for ban on agents charging tenants for routine parts of letting process.
27 March, 2015
New regulations issued in relation to the form that local authorities are required to use in registering a 'repayment charge' - that allows local authorities to create a security for costs arising in connection with enforcement powers under the Housing (Scotland) Act 2006 - with the appropriate land register.
27 March, 2015
New guidance that explains the criteria for making a selective licensing scheme and discusses the types of evidence that local authorities will require to support an application, and highlights that from 27 March 2015 additional criteria for making a scheme will apply, and designations may be made to combat problems of poor property conditions, an influx of migration, a high level of deprivation or high levels of crime.
27 March, 2015
New regulations issued in relation to a local housing authority's power to designate parts of their area as subject to selective licensing - requiring privately rented dwellings in that area to be licensed by the housing authority - to extend the grounds on which a designation can be made to include poor property conditions, current or recent experience of large amounts of inward migration, high levels of deprivation, or high levels of crime.
27 March, 2015
New regulations issued that: amend the statutory powers of entry of officers of the Valuation Office Agency contained in the Local Government Finance Act 1988 and the Local Government Finance Act 1992, to insert a requirement to obtain authorisation from the First-tier Tribunal prior to exercising the powers; amend the notice period in the 1988 Act; and amend the fine level in the 1992 Act.
27 March, 2015
New Act that includes provisions relating to the duty of letting agents to publicise fees.
27 March, 2015
New regulations that specify persons that are not letting agents for the purposes of Chapter 3 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015.
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