Tenants Wary Of ‘Right to Transfer’ Regulations

Tenant groups have cautiously welcomed long-awaited rules on requesting stock transfers - but warned they may still allow councils to override tenants’ wishes too easily.   Under the plans, tenant groups can serve a notice saying they want their homes to be transferred to a new housing association. If certain criteria are met the council would then have to co-operate.  However a council can object to the secretary of state ‘where it can show clear evidence of a significant detrimental effect on the local authority’s ability to provide housing or other services in the wider authority area’. Read more on Inside Housing.