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The ten most recent legislation and policy documents published on the housing site.

• Housing and Regeneration Bill - Impact Assessment

  Details the impact of the provisions within the Housing and Regeneration Bill.

  • Added:  16 November 2007
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Impact assessments; Legislation and policy

• Delivering Housing and Regeneration: Communities England and the future of social housing regulation

  This consultation invites comments on the role of Communities England and the Government's proposals for the future system of regulating social housing providers.

  • Added:  19 June 2007
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Consultation documents; Legislation and policy

• Report of the independent review of social housing regulation led by Professor Martin Cave, Director of Management under Regulation at Warwick University.

  A report by Professor Martin Cave. Published 19 June 2007.

  • Added:  19 June 2007
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Legislation and policy

• Guidance for Local Authorities and Housing Management Organisations : Contracting out of Anti-social Behaviour Order functions

  This guidance is statutory, but tries to avoid being prescriptive. It provides local authorities and HMOs with a framework to follow whilst allowing flexibility based on local circumstances. It outlines those areas which the Government expects local.

  • Added:  11 May 2007
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Good practice and guidance; Legislation and policy

• The Cave Review of Social Housing Regulation: (i) Responses to the Call for Evidence (ii) Tenant's Views

  This document contains all the evidence received from respondents, including a seperate document on Tenants views. Published 29 March 2007.

  • Added:  29 March 2007
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Legislation and policy; Consultation responses

• Tackling Youth Homelessness - Policy Briefing 18

  This briefing focuses on the work of central Government, local authorities and the voluntary and community sector to prevent and tackle youth homelessness.

  • Added:  7 March 2007
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Reports and summaries; Legislation and policy

• Landlord and Tenant Act 1954: Section 57 - Consultation Paper

  Consultation period 28 February 2007 to 25 May 2007.

  • Added:  28 February 2007
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Consultation documents; Legislation and policy

• Framework for planning and commissioning of services related to health needs of homeless people

  A framework to involve key homelessness care stakeholders in joint planning to improve access of homeless people to local health services and to promote joint commissioning of these services where appropriate. Published January 2007.

  • Added:  23 January 2007
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Legislation and policy; Good practice and guidance

• Government Response to the Communities and Local Government Committee's Report on the Planning-gain Supplement

  Published 19 December 2006.

  • Added:  19 December 2006
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Legislation and policy

• Independent review of regulation of social housing: Issues paper for residents

  Cave review of the regulation of social housing - issues for residents. Published December 2006.

  • Added:  14 December 2006
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Consultation documents; Legislation and policy