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Housing and Regeneration Act

Housing Regeneration

Key Benefits

The Act supports delivery of housing supply through the creation of the Homes and Communities Agency, and reforms social housing and social housing regulation to promote better services for tenants.

The Housing and Regeneration Act would support the delivery of the three million new homes by 2020 that are needed to meet growing demand and rising aspirations.

By bringing together land and housing, and shifting from simply grant funding social housing to investing in infrastructure, the Homes and Communities Agency would support the regeneration and delivery of new social and affordable housing, both social and private. It would also make better use of surplus public sector land and maximise the potential for brownfield development.

The Bill would also provide an opportunity to modernise powers on establishing new settlements like eco-towns, and simplify the ways in which the Homes and Communities Agency would facilitate delivery of these projects.

It would reform regulation of social housing, to provide better services for tenants.

The Bill would implement an ECHR ruling on Gypsies and Travellers, and other miscellaneous provisions.
Housing Regeneration
Act of Parliament
Housing Regeneration
Explanatory Notes
Housing Regeneration
Regulatory Impact assessment
Housing Regeneration
Territorial Extent
United Kingdom
Theme
Economic Stability
Housing Regeneration

The Bill applies to England and Wales, although there will be some consequential changes required in relation to Scotland. The Government will work closely with the Devolved Administrations on the responsibilities they have in this area.

Related Documents

  • Delivering Housing and Regeneration: Communities England and the future of social housing regulation - also consults on tenant ballots and stock options
  • Tenant Empowerment
  • Housing Green Paper (including the Housing Revenue Account)
  • Building Regulations
  • Code for Sustainable Homes
  • Changes to the Right to Buy
  • Tolerated Trespassers
  • Leasehold Enfranchisement Rules
  • The Hills Review of Social Housing
  • The Cave Review of Social Housing Regulation

Existing Legislation in this area

  • The Leasehold Reform Act 1967
  • The New Towns Act 1981
  • Building Act 1984
  • Housing Associations Act 1985
  • Housing Act 1988
  • Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993
  • Housing Act 1996
  • Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996
  • Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002

Comments

If you have any comments on the Bill you can email them to:

housingandregeneration.bill@communities.gsi.gov.uk

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