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Housing and Regeneration Bill

Key Benefits The Bill 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 Bill 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.

Bill Text

Explanatory Notes

Regulatory Impact assessment

Theme
Economic Stability

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