# The Housing (Right To Acquire) (Discount) Order 1998 S.I. 1998/2014 · made 12 August 1998 This Order specifies the amount of discount for the purposes of section 17 of the Housing Act 1996 (supplemental provisions on the right to acquire). Tenants of registered social landlords who have a right to acquire their homes under section 16 of the 1996 Act are able to do so with a discount from the purchase price. The amount of the discount varies according to the area in which the dwelling is situated. Made under: Housing Act 1996 (Section 17) ## Introductory text HOUSING, ENGLAND Made 12th August 1998 Laid before Parliament 19th August 1998 Coming into force 9th September 1998 The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, as respects England, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 17(1) and (5) of the Housing Act 1996 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order: ## 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation (1) This Order may be cited as the Housing (Right To Acquire) (Discount) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 9th September 1998. (2) In this Order “area” means a “county” or “district” as defined by section 270 of the Local Government Act 1972, a London borough or the City of London. ## 2 Amounts of Discount The following amounts of discount are specified for the purpose of section 17(1)(a) of the Housing Act 1996 (the right to acquire)— (a) £16,000 where a dwelling is in one of the areas specified in Schedule 1 to this Order; (b) £13,500 where a dwelling is in one of the areas specified in Schedule 2 to this Order; (c) £11,000 where a dwelling is in one of the areas specified in Schedule 3 to this Order; (d) £10,000 where a dwelling is in one of the areas specified in Schedule 4 to this Order; and (e) £9,000 where a dwelling is in one of the areas specified in Schedule 5 to this Order. ## 3 Revocation The Housing (Right to Acquire) (Discount) Order 1997 is hereby revoked. ## 4 Application Articles 1 to 3 of this Order do not apply in a case where a notice has been served claiming to exercise the right to acquire before this Order comes into force. ## Signature Signed by authority of the Secretary of State Hilary Armstrong Minister of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 12th August 1998 ## Schedule 1: DISCOUNT OF £16,000 ## I BUCKINGHAMSHIRE South Buckinghamshire. ## 2 CORNWALL AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY The Isles of Scilly. ## 3 GREATER LONDON Barnet, Brent, Camden, City of London, Ealing, Hackney, Hammersmith & Fulham, Haringey, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Kensington & Chelsea, Kingston upon Thames, Lambeth, Merton, Richmond upon Thames, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth, Westminster. ## 4 HERTFORDSHIRE Three Rivers. ## Schedule 2: DISCOUNT OF £13,500 ## 1 BERKSHIRE Bracknell Forest, Slough, Windsor & Maidenhead, Wokingham. ## 2 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE Chiltern, Wycombe. ## 3 CAMBRIDGESHIRE Cambridge. ## 4 ESSEX Brentwood, Epping Forest, Harlow. ## 5 GREATER LONDON Barking & Dagenham, Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Enfield, Greenwich, Havering, Lewisham, Newham, Redbridge, Sutton, Waltham Forest. ## 6 HAMPSHIRE Basingstoke & Deane, East Hampshire, Hart, Rushmoor, Winchester. ## 7 HERTFORDSHIRE Broxbourne, Dacorum, East Hertfordshire, Hertsmere, North Hertfordshire, St Albans, Stevenage, Watford, Welwyn Hatfield. ## 8 KENT Sevenoaks, Tonbridge & Malling. ## 9 OXFORDSHIRE Oxford. ## 10 SURREY Elmbridge, Epsom & Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate & Banstead, Runnymede, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Waverley, Woking. ## 11 WEST SUSSEX Crawley, Mid Sussex. ## 1 BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET Bath and North East Somerset. ## 2 BEDFORDSHIRE Mid Bedfordshire, North Bedfordshire, South Bedfordshire. ## 3 BERKSHIRE West Berkshire, Reading. ## 4 BOURNEMOUTH Bournemouth. ## 5 BRIGHTON AND HOVE Brighton and Hove. ## 6 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE Aylesbury Vale. ## 7 CAMBRIDGESHIRE South Cambridgeshire. ## 8 CHESHIRE Chester, Macclesfield. ## 9 CITY OF BRISTOL City of Bristol. ## 10 CUMBRIA Barrow-in-Furness, South Lakeland. ## 11 DEVON East Devon, North Devon, South Hams. ## 12 DORSET Christchurch, East Dorset, North Dorset, Purbeck, West Dorset, Weymouth & Portland. ## 13 DURHAM Durham. ## 14 EAST SUSSEX Eastbourne, Lewes, Wealden. ## 15 ESSEX Basildon, Castle Point, Chelmsford, Colchester, Maldon, Rochford, Uttlesford. ## 16 GLOUCESTERSHIRE Cheltenham, Cotswold. ## 17 GREATER MANCHESTER Manchester, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford. ## 18 HAMPSHIRE Eastleigh, Fareham, Gosport, Havant, New Forest, Test Valley. ## 19 KENT Ashford, Canterbury, Dartford, Dover, Gravesham, Maidstone, Swale, Thanet, Tunbridge Wells. ## 20 LANCASHIRE Fylde, Ribble Valley, West Lancashire. ## 21 LUTON Luton. ## 22 MEDWAY TOWNS Medway Towns. ## 23 MERSEYSIDE Liverpool. ## 24 MILTON KEYNES Milton Keynes. ## 25 NORTH SOMERSET North Somerset. ## 26 NORTH YORKSHIRE Harrogate. ## 27 OXFORDSHIRE Cherwell, South Oxfordshire, Vale of White Horse, West Oxfordshire. ## 28 POOLE Poole. ## 29 PORTSMOUTH Portsmouth. ## 30 SOUTHAMPTON Southampton. ## 31 SOUTHEND-ON-SEA Southend-on-Sea. ## 32 SOUTH YORKSHIRE Sheffield. ## 33 SWINDON Swindon. ## 34 THURROCK Thurrock. ## 35 TYNE AND WEAR North Tyneside. ## 36 WARWICKSHIRE Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick. ## 37 WEST MIDLANDS Birmingham, Solihull. ## 38 WEST SUSSEX Adur, Arun, Chichester, Horsham, Worthing. ## 39 WEST YORKSHIRE Leeds. ## 40 WILTSHIRE Kennet, North Wiltshire, Salisbury, West Wiltshire. ## 41 WORCESTERSHIRE Bromsgrove. ## 42 YORK York. ## Schedule 4: DISCOUNT OF £10,000 ## 1 BLACKBURN Blackburn. ## 2 BLACKPOOL Blackpool. ## 3 CAMBRIDGESHIRE East Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire. ## 4 CHESHIRE Congleton, Crewe & Nantwich, Ellesmere Port and Neston, Vale Royal. ## 5 CITY OF KINGSON-UPON-HULL City of Kingston-Upon-Hull. ## 6 CORNWALL & THE ISLES OF SCILLY Caradon, Carrick, Kerrier, North Cornwall, Penwith, Restormel. ## 7 CUMBRIA Allerdale, Carlisle, Copeland, Eden. ## 8 DARLINGTON Darlington. ## 9 DERBYSHIRE Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, Erewash, High Peak, North East Derbyshire, South Derbyshire. ## 10 DEVON Exeter, Mid Devon, Teignbridge, Torridge, West Devon. ## 11 DURHAM Chester-le-Street, Derwentside, Easington, Sedgefield, Teeside, Wear Valley. ## 12 EAST RIDING OF YORKSHRIE East Riding of Yorkshire. ## 13 EAST SUSSEX Hastings, Rother. ## 14 ESSEX Braintree, Tendring. ## 15 GLOUCESTERSHIRE Forest of Dean, Gloucester, Stroud, Tewkesbury. ## 16 GREATER MANCHESTER Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Wigan. ## 17 HALTON Halton. ## 18 HARTLEPOOL Hartlepool. ## 19 HEREFORDSHIRE Herefordshire. ## 20 ISLE OF WIGHT Isle of Wight. ## 21 KENT Shepway. ## 22 LANCASHIRE Burnley, Chorley, Hyndburn, Lancaster, Pendle, Preston, Rossendale, South Ribble, Wyre. ## 23 LEICESTER Leicester. ## 24 LEICESTERSHIRE Blaby, Charnwood, Harborough, Melton, North West Leicestershire, Oadby & Wigston. ## 25 LINCOLNSHIRE Lincoln, North Kesteven. ## 26 MERSEYSIDE Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens, Wirral. ## 27 MIDDLESBROUGH Middlesbrough. ## 28 NORFOLK Broadland, King’s Lynn and West Norfolk, Norwich. ## 29 NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE North East Lincolnshire. ## 30 NORTH YORKSHIRE Craven, Hambleton, Richmondshire, Ryedale, Scarborough, Selby. ## 31 NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Corby, Daventry, East Northamptonshire, Kettering, Northampton, South Northamptonshire, Wellingborough. ## 32 NORTHUMBERLAND Alnwick, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Blyth Valley, Castle Morpeth, Tynedale, Wansbeck. ## 33 NOTTINGHAM Nottingham. ## 34 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE Bassetlaw, Broxtowe, Gedling, Rushcliffe. ## 35 PETERBOROUGH Peterborough. ## 36 PLYMOUTH Plymouth. ## 37 REDCAR AND CLEVELAND Redcar and Cleveland. ## 38 RUTLAND Rutland. ## 39 SHROPSHIRE Bridgnorth, North Shropshire, Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Atcham, South Shropshire. ## 40 SOMERSET Mendip, Sedgemoor, South Somerset, Taunton Deane, West Somerset. ## 41 SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE South Gloucestershire. ## 42 SOUTH YORKSHIRE Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham. ## 43 STAFFORDSHIRE Cannock Chase, East Staffordshire, Lichfield, Newcastle-under-Lyme, South Staffordshire, Stafford, Staffordshire Moorlands, Tamworth. ## 44 STOCKTON-ON-TEES Stockton-on-Tees. ## 45 STOKE-ON-TRENT Stoke-on-Trent. ## 46 SUFFOLK Babergh, Forest Heath, Ipswich, St Edmundsbury, Suffolk Coastal. ## 47 THE WREKIN The Wrekin. ## 48 TORBAY Torbay. ## 49 TYNE AND WEAR Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, South Tyneside, Sunderland. ## 50 WARRINGTON Warrington. ## 51 WARWICKSHIRE North Warwickshire, Rugby. ## 52 WEST MIDLANDS Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall, Wolverhampton. ## 53 WEST YORKSHIRE Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Wakefield. ## 54 WORCESTERSHIRE Malvern Hills, Redditch, Worcester, Wychavon, Wyre Forest. ## Schedule 5: DISCOUNT OF £9,000 ## 1 CAMBRIDGESHIRE Fenland. ## 2 DERBY Derby. ## 3 DERBYSHIRE Amber Valley, Bolsover. ## 4 LEICESTERSHIRE Hinckley and Bosworth. ## 5 LINCOLNSHIRE Boston, East Lindsey, South Holland, South Kesteven, West Lindsey. ## 6 NORFOLK Breckland, Great Yarmouth, North Norfolk, South Norfolk. ## 7 NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE North Lincolnshire. ## 8 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE Ashfield, Mansfield, Newark and Sherwood. ## 9 SUFFOLK Mid Suffolk, Waveney. ## 10 WARWICKSHIRE Nuneaton and Bedworth. ## Explanatory note (This note is not part of the Order) This Order specifies the amount of discount for the purposes of section 17 of the Housing Act 1996 (supplemental provisions on the right to acquire). Tenants of registered social landlords who have a right to acquire their homes under section 16 of the 1996 Act are able to do so with a discount from the purchase price. The amount of the discount varies according to the area in which the dwelling is situated. The Order replaces the Housing (Right to Acquire) (Discount) Order 1997. Under this Order, some areas are in different discount bands from before and the Order takes into account changes in local authority areas and names. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2014 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/housing-right-to-acquire-discount-order-1998 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.