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Summary

The 5 year housing plan, Homes for All ? published in January 2005 - sets out the Government's plans for taking forward its Choice Based Lettings (CBL) policy.

The aim is to have in place nationwide choice by 2010. The Government wants to build on the existing Communities and Local Government CBL target - for all local authorities to have adopted choice by 2010 - by extending choice based lettings to cover, not only local authority and housing association properties, but also low cost home ownership options and properties for rent from private landlords.

We also want to see CBL schemes developing on a regional and/or sub-regional basis. We believe that such schemes, involving a partnership of local authorities and registered social landlords - and working together with private landlords wherever possible - are the best way to achieve the greatest choice and flexibility in meeting home-seeker's housing needs.

We believe that there are a number of benefits from larger, cross-local authority, schemes: they enable partners to share ICT and advertising costs; for RSLs they cut the costs of being involved in several different schemes; they enable greater regional mobility; they break down artificial boundaries and recognise existing housing and labour markets: and they bring together a larger pool of available housing, giving home-seekers more choice and helping to ease localised problems of high demand.

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