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The ten most recent good practice and guidance documents published on the housing site.

• Local Authority Housing Statistics: 2011/12 - Guidance notes for completion

  This page contains guidance notes for the completion of the Local Authority Housing Statistics: 2011/12.

  • Added:  17 May 2012
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Good practice and guidance

• Reinvigorating Right to Buy and One for One Replacement: Fact Sheet for Lenders

  This fact sheet provides information for lenders who are currently providing mortgage finance to council or housing association tenants exercising their Right to Buy.

  • Added:  12 March 2012
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Good practice and guidance

• Reinvigorating Right to Buy and One for One Replacement: Information for Local Authorities

  This guide sets out the key information for Local Authorities about how the new changes to the Right to Buy policy will affect them.

  • Added:  12 March 2012
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Good practice and guidance

• Table of debt associated with Housing Revenue Account properties - 1 March 2012

  This model should be used to calculate the amount of debt that could be supported by individual properties sold under the Right to Buy.

  • Added:  8 March 2012
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Good practice and guidance

• Bringing Empty Homes back into use: Application guidance for Community and Voluntary Groups

  This guidance sets out the requirements, assessment criteria and timetable for applications where funding is sought from the Empty Homes Community Grants Fund, by not-for-profit community and voluntary groups not intending to become Registered Providers.

  • Added:  24 January 2012
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Good practice and guidance

• Build Now, Pay Later

  This note summaries the use of Build Now, Pay Later payment terms on the disposal of surplus public sector land and how it would work in practice.

  • Added:  21 December 2011
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Good practice and guidance

• The Public Request to Order Disposal process: A simple explanation

  This note provides a basic description of the request process that applies to both the Statutory and Non-Statutory Request processes.

  • Added:  5 October 2011
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Good practice and guidance

• Public Request to Order Disposal: Request Form

  This form is provided for applicants to help exercise your right under the Community Right to Reclaim Land to seek to bring under-used or unused land or property back into a beneficial use.

  • Added:  5 October 2011
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Good practice and guidance

• Top tips for tenants: Assured shorthold tenancies

  These tips are for people who are or who are thinking of becoming an assured shorthold tenant.

  • Added:  3 September 2011
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Manuals leaflets and booklets; Good practice and guidance

• Top tips for landlords: Assured shorthold tenancies

  These tips are for landlords who have let or who intend to let a property on an assured shorthold tenancy.

  • Added:  3 September 2011
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Manuals leaflets and booklets; Good practice and guidance