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The Housing (Right to Buy or Acquire) (Designated Rural Areas etc.) (England) Order 2024

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Contents: 6 provisions
  1. Title and introductory text
  2. 1 Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation
  3. 2 Designated rural areas
  4. 3 Designated region
  5. 4 Amendment to the 1997 Order
  6. SCHEDULE Designation of rural areas

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6 provisions

Title and introductory text

This Statutory Instrument has been made to correct an error in S.I. 1997/622 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument. 2024 No. 1309 Housing, England The Housing (Right to Buy or Acquire) (Designated Rural Areas etc.) (England) Order 2024 Made 9th December 2024 Laid before Parliament 11th December 2024 Coming into force 2nd January 2025 The Secretary of State makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 157(1)(c) and (3)(a) of the Housing Act 1985 and section 184(1)(b) of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008.

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1 Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation

(1) This Order may be cited as the Housing (Right to Buy or Acquire) (Designated Rural Areas etc.) (England) Order 2024 and comes into force on 2nd January 2025. (2) This Order extends to England and Wales. (3) In this Order— “the Act” means the Housing Act 1985; “the 1997 Order” means the Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas in the North West and Merseyside) Order 1997.

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2 Designated rural areas

The areas specified in the Schedule are designated as rural areas for the purposes of section 157(1) of the Act.

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3 Designated region

In relation to a dwelling-house which is situated in a rural area designated by article 2, the region designated for the purposes of section 157(3) of the Act is the County of Herefordshire.

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4 Amendment to the 1997 Order

In Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the 1997 Order (Cheshire)— (a) omit “Moolton”, and (b) after “Mouldsworth” insert Moulton”.

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SCHEDULE Designation of rural areas

Article 2 In the County of Herefordshire the parishes of— Abbeydore, Aconbury, Acton Beauchamp, Adforton, Allensmore, Almeley, Ashperton, Aston Ingham, Avenbury, Aylton, Aymestrey, Bacton, Birley with Upper Hill, Bishops Frome, Bishopstone, Blakemere, Bodenham, Bolstone, Bosbury, Brampton Abbotts, Brampton Bryan, Bredenbury, Bredwardine, Breinton, Bridge Sollars, Brilley, Brimfield, Brinsop & Wormsley, Brobury with Monnington on Wye, Brockhampton (North Herefordshire), Buckton & Coxall, Burghill, Burrington, Byford, Byton, Callow, Canon Frome, Canon Pyon, Castle Frome, Clifford, Coddington, Collington, Combe, Cradley, Craswall, Croft and Yarpole, Cusop, Dewsall, Dilwyn, Dinedor, Dinmore, Docklow & Hampton Wafer, Donnington, Dormington, Dorstone, Downton, Dulas, Eardisland, Eardisley, Eaton Bishop, Edvin Loach & Saltmarshe, Edwyn Ralph, Eggleton, Elton, Evesbatch, Ewyas Harold, Eye, Moreton & Ashton, Eyton, Felton, Ford & Stoke Prior, Ganarew, Garway, Grafton, Grendon Bishop, Hampton Bishop, Hampton Charles, Hatfield & Newhampton, Haywood, Hentland, Holme Lacy, Hope Mansell, Hope under Dinmore, Humber, Huntington, Kenchester, Kentchurch, Kilpeck, Kimbolton, Kings Pyon, Kingsland, Kingstone, Kington Rural, Kinnersley, Kinsham, Knill, Leinthall Starkes, Leintwardine, Letton, Leysters, Lingen, Linton (North Herefordshire), Linton (South Herefordshire), Little Birch, Little Cowarne, Little Dewchurch, Little Hereford, Little Marcle, Llancillo, Llandinabo, Llangarron, Llanrothal, Llanveynoe, Llanwarne, Longtown, Lower Harpton, Lucton, Luston, Lyonshall, Madley, Mansell Gamage, Mansel Lacy, Marden, Marstow, Mathon, Michaelchurch Escley, Middleton on the Hill, Moccas, Monkland & Stretford, Mordiford, Moreton Jeffries, Much Birch, Much Cowarne, Much Dewchurch, Much Marcle, Munsley, Newton (North Herefordshire), Newton (South Herefordshire), Norton, Norton Canon, Ocle Pychard, Orcop, Orleton, Pembridge, Pencombe with Grendon Warren, Pencoyd, Peterchurch, Peterstow, Pipe and Lyde, Pipe Aston, Pixley, Preston on Wye, Preston Wynne, Pudlestone, Putley, Richard’s Castle, Rodd, Nash & Little Brampton, Rowlstone, Sarnesfield, Sellack, Shobdon, Sollers Hope, St Margarets, St Weonards, Stanford Bishop, Stapleton, Staunton on Arrow, Staunton on Wye, Stoke Edith, Stoke Lacy, Stretton Grandison, Stretton Sugwas, Sutton St Nicholas, Tarrington, Tedstone Delamere, Tedstone Wafer, Thornbury, Thruxton, Titley, Tretire with Michaelchurch, Turnastone, Tyberton, Ullingswick, Upper Sapey, Upton Bishop, Vowchurch, Wacton, Walford, Walford, Letton & Newton, Walterstone, Wellington, Wellington Heath, Welsh Newton, Weobley, Westhide, Weston Beggard, Weston under Penyard, Whitbourne, Whitchurch, Whitney on Wye, Wigmore, Willersley & Winforton, Willey, Withington, Wolferlow, Woolhope, Yarkhill, Yatton, Yazor.

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