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Summary

The Office of the Deputy Prime Minster (ODPM) commissioned research designed to identify key issues related to the impact of the Decent Homes Policy on Right to Buy leaseholders. The overall objective of this study was to explore the practice and cost of service charges being billed to leaseholders in former RTB properties to pay for repairs resulting from local authorities' obligations to bring all council properties up to the decent homes standard by 2010. Specifically the study aimed to explore: 

• the typical major works programmes authorities are undertaking;
• the extent to which works are to meet the decent homes standard and which go beyond the decent homes standard and in what circumstances;
• authorities' policies in relation to charging leaseholders for these works;
• whether costs are in line with Communities and Local Government's expectations of standard costs under the Decent Homes programme;
• the extent to which costs are influenced by the scale and approach to undertaking the repairs, for example undertaking works on an ad hoc basis or obtaining significant economies of scale with large contractors over a large number of stock and estates.

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