Paragraph 5

(1)

The landlord shall send copies of its written response to the applicant’s case within the period referred to in paragraph 4(1)(b) above both to the district valuer and to the applicant, and, where the landlord does not accept the applicant’s case as respects any matter, the response shall include a statement of its grounds for disputing it, and any modification which the landlord proposes to the price in the light of the applicant’s case.

(2)

The landlord shall within that same period inform the district valuer and the applicant in writing of the extent to which the following factors (where relevant to the dispute) have been taken into account in reaching the proposed purchase price or disposal cost –

(a)

any subsidence attributable to mining which affects or may affect the property to which the acquisition relates;

(b)

the existence of any defects in the structure of any buildings included in the property to which the acquisition relates or any disrepair in such buildings, and the existence of any relevant designation under Part XVI of the 1985 Act;

(c)

the nature and extent of any works reasonably necessary to put the buildings included in the acquisition into the state of repair required by the landlord’s repairing obligations;

(d)

the number of properties which have become available for reletting to new tenants during each of the last four years;

(e)

details of any costs and income associated with the property to which the acquisition relates not detailed elsewhere;

(f)

information about sales to persons having the right to buy under Part V of the 1985 Act of dwelling-houses occurring within the property to which the acquisition relates and its locality during the period of four years preceding the relevant date, and details of any claims to exercise the right to buy which have not yet been completed.