Council Plans To Strip Tenants Of Right To Buy

Lambeth Council has angered its residents and ministers by pledging to strip tenants of the Right to Buy when their homes are replaced during its largest-ever estate regeneration programme. The Labour-led south London authority has unveiled plans to shift tenants with ‘secure’ council tenancies to an ‘enhanced’ form of ‘assured lifetime’ tenancy when they move into replacement homes. According to council papers, the new tenancy will match those offered by councils “as closely as possible”. In addition to losing the Right to Buy, the new tenancy will exclude the ‘Right to Manage’, which allows tenants to take over the running of their homes and the ‘Right to Transfer’, used to trigger the transfer of homes to a housing association. Residents will also cease to be tenants of Lambeth Council once their homes are replaced. It is understood the social housing rent cut is therefore also unlikely to apply to HfL stock. Read more on Inside Housing.