VOA Right to Buy Manual

Contents of Manual

General

1. Origins

2. Housing Act 1985 Part V

3. Procedure for invoking RTB

4. Structural defects

5. Estimates of service charges etc

6. Restriction on recovery

7. General consent

8. Extension of RTB

9. Preserved RTB

10. Discount

11. Exceptions to the Right to Buy

Scope of assistance

12. General

13. Local and other authorities

14. Housing associations/societies or Housing Corporation

15. Intervention of Secretary of State

Procedure for s.127 valuations

16. Statutory time limits

17. Information from authority

18. Co-ordination

Valuation factors common to s.127 and s.128

19. General

20. Basis of valuation

21. Exceptions to general basis

22. Inspections

23. Improvements

24. Works of repair

25. Valuation of houses

26. Defective houses

27. Leasehold enfranchisement

28. Valuation of flats

29. Defective flats

30. Repairs and improvements to flats

31. Mining subsidence reports

32. Specialist reports

Determinations under the Housing Act 1985

33. Statutory determination role of DV

34. Statutory basis

35. DV's independence to be safeguarded: challenges

36. Choice of staff for determination cases

37. Definition of 'District Valuer'

38. Appointment of 'District Valuer'

39. Approach to DV by tenant

40. Representations

41. DV's role solely to value

42. Time limits and requests for information

Reports for s.127 valuations and s.128 determinations

43. S.127 valuation reports

44. S.128 determination reports

45. Content of reports

46. DV not to assist with service charge estimates

47. Disclosure to building societies and banks

Rural areas safeguard: s.157 HA 1985

48. General

49. Restrictive or pre-emption covenant

50. Designated regions in England: - National Parks and AONBs

51. Subsequent designation of AONBs

52. Designated rural areas

53. Subsequent designation of rural areas

54. Designations in Wales

55. Identification of dwellings

56. Valuation considerations - no covenant

57. S.157(2) and (3) covenant

58. Effect of s.157(2) & (3) covenant

59. Possible limited effect of covenant

60. S.157(4) covenant

61. Valuation basis

62. Valuation assistance to authorities

63. Determinations under s.158(1)

64. Urgency of valuation advice and determinations

65. Reports

Shared ownership leases

66. General

67. Valuations

68. Assistance to authorities

69. Determinations

Mortgages in RTB cases

70. General

71. Loans for service charges

72. Vesting of dwellings by mortgagee authorities

73. Valuation

74. Assistance to authorities

75. Determinations

Right to Acquire

76. General

77. Tenancies not bestowing the Right to Acquire

78. Statutory provisions

79. Exceptions to the Right to Acquire

80. Discount

81. Designated Rural Areas

82. DV's Services

Practice Note 1 : Right to Buy/Right to Acquire : Procedure for Determinations of Value under Section 128 Housing 1985

General

Time limits

Determination report

Confidential information

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