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(1) This Order may be cited as the Housing (Right to Acquire) (Discount) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st April 1997.
(2) In this Order “area” means a “local government area” as defined by section 270 of the Local Government Act 1972.
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The following amounts of discount are specified for the purpose of section 17(1)(a) of the Housing Act 1996 (the right to acquire)—
(a) £16,000 where a dwelling is in one of the areas specified in Schedule 1 to this Order;
(b) £13,500 where a dwelling is in one of the areas specified in Schedule 2 to this Order;
(c) £11,000 where a dwelling is in one of the areas specified in Schedule 3 to this Order;
(d) £10,000 where a dwelling is in one of the areas specified in Schedule 4 to this Order; and
(e) £9,000 where a dwelling is in one of the areas specified in Schedule 5 to this Order.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
David Curry
Minister of State,
Department of the Environment.
5th March 1997
SCHEDULE 1
Article 2(a)
PART I

 Barnet,
 Brent,
 Camden,
 City of London,
 Ealing,
 Hackney,
 Hammersmith & Fulham,
 Haringey,
 Harrow,
 Hillingdon,
 Hounslow,
 Islington,
 Kensington & Chelsea,
 Kingston upon Thames,
 Lambeth,
 Merton,
 Richmond upon Thames,
 Southwark,
 Tower Hamlets,
 Wandsworth,
 Westminster.

PART II

 The Isles of Scilly.

SCHEDULE 2
Article 2(b)
PART I

 Barking & Dagenham,
 Bexley,
 Bromley,
 Croydon,
 Enfield,
 Greenwich,
 Havering,
 Lewisham,
 Newham,
 Redbridge,
 Sutton,
 Waltham Forest.

PART II

 Bracknell Forest,
 Slough,
 Windsor & Maidenhead,
 Wokingham.

PART III

 Chiltern,
 South Buckinghamshire.

PART IV

 Cambridge.

PART V

 Brentwood,
 Epping Forest,
 Harlow.

PART VI

 Hart,
 Rushmoor.

PART VII

 Broxbourne,
 Dacorum,
 East Hertfordshire,
 Hertsmere,
 St Albans,
 Stevenage,
 Three Rivers,
 Watford,
 Welwyn Hatfield.

PART VIII

 Sevenoaks,
 Tonbridge & Malling.

PART IX

 Oxford.

PART X

 Elmbridge,
 Epsom & Ewell,
 Guildford,
 Mole Valley,
 Reigate & Banstead,
 Runnymede,
 Spelthorne,
 Surrey Heath,
 Tandridge,
 Waverley,
 Woking.

SCHEDULE 3
Article 2(c)
PART I

 Mid Bedfordshire,
 South Bedfordshire.

PART II

 Newbury,
 Reading.

PART III

 Aylesbury Vale,
 Wycombe.

PART IV

 South Cambridgeshire.

PART V

 Christchurch,
 East Dorset,
 Purbeck,
 West Dorset,
 Weymouth & Portland.

PART VI

 Eastbourne,
 Lewes,
 Wealden.

PART VII

 Basildon,
 Castle Point,
 Chelmsford,
 Maldon,
 Rochford,
 Southend-on-Sea,
 Thurrock,
 Uttlesford.

PART VIII

 Cheltenham,
 Cotswold.

PART IX

 Basingstoke & Deane,
 East Hampshire,
 New Forest,
 Test Valley,
 Winchester.

PART X

 North Hertfordshire.

PART XI

 Ashford,
 Canterbury,
 Dartford,
 Dover,
 Gravesham,
 Maidstone,
 Rochester upon Medway,
 Tunbridge Wells.

PART XII

 South Oxfordshire,
 West Oxfordshire,
 Vale of White Horse.

PART XIII

 Stratford-upon-Avon,
 Warwick.

PART XIV

 Solihull.

PART XV

 Adur,
 Arun,
 Chichester,
 Crawley,
 Horsham,
 Mid Sussex,
 Worthing.

PART XVI

 Salisbury.

PART XVII

 Bath & North East Somerset,
 Brighton & Hove,
 Luton,
 Poole.

SCHEDULE 4
Article 2(d)
PART I

 North Bedfordshire.

PART II

 East Cambridgeshire,
 Huntingdonshire,
 Peterborough.

PART III

 Chester,
 Congleton,
 Crewe & Nantwich,
 Ellesmere Port and Neston,
 Halton,
 Macclesfield,
 Vale Royal,
 Warrington.

PART IV

 Carrick,
 Penwith.

PART V

 Allerdale,
 Barrow-in-Furness,
 Carlisle,
 Copeland,
 Eden,
 South Lakeland.

PART VI

 Chesterfield,
 Derbyshire Dales,
 High Peak,
 North East Derbyshire.

PART VII

 East Devon,
 Exeter,
 Mid Devon,
 North Devon,
 Plymouth,
 South Hams,
 Teignbridge,
 Torbay,
 West Devon.

PART VIII

 North Dorset.

PART IX

 Durham,
 Easington.

PART X

 Hastings,
 Rother.

PART XI

 Braintree,
 Colchester,
 Tendring.

PART XII

 Forest of Dean,
 Gloucester,
 Stroud,
 Tewkesbury.

PART XIII

 Bolton,
 Bury,
 Manchester,
 Salford,
 Stockport,
 Tameside,
 Trafford,
 Wigan.

PART XIV

 Eastleigh,
 Fareham,
 Gosport,
 Havant.

PART XV

 Bromsgrove,
 Hereford,
 Leominster,
 Malvern Hills,
 Redditch,
 South Herefordshire,
 Worcester,
 Wychavon,
 Wyre Forest.

PART XVI

 Gillingham,
 Shepway,
 Swale,
 Thanet.

PART XVII

 Blackburn,
 Blackpool,
 Burnley,
 Chorley,
 Fylde,
 Hyndburn,
 Lancaster,
 Pendle,
 Preston,
 Ribble Valley,
 Rossendale,
 South Ribble,
 West Lancashire,
 Wyre.

PART XVIII

 Blaby,
 Harborough,
 Oadby & Wigston.

PART XIX

 Knowsley,
 Liverpool,
 Sefton,
 St Helens,
 Wirral.

PART XX

 Broadland,
 Norwich.

PART XXI

 Craven,
 Hambleton,
 Harrogate,
 Richmondshire,
 Ryedale,
 Scarborough,
 Selby.

PART XXII

 Corby,
 Daventry,
 East Northamptonshire,
 Kettering,
 Northampton,
 South Northamptonshire,
 Wellingborough.

PART XXIII

 Alnwick,
 Berwick-upon-Tweed,
 Blyth Valley,
 Castle Morpeth,
 Tynedale,
 Wansbeck.

PART XXIV

 Cherwell.

PART XXV

 Bridgnorth,
 Oswestry,
 Shrewsbury and Atcham,
 South Shropshire,
 The Wrekin.

PART XXVI

 Mendip,
 Sedgemoor,
 South Somerset,
 Taunton Deane,
 West Somerset.

PART XXVII

 Doncaster,
 Sheffield.

PART XXVIII

 Cannock Chase,
 East Staffordshire,
 Lichfield,
 South Staffordshire,
 Stafford,
 Staffordshire Moorlands,
 Tamworth.

PART XXIX

 Ipswich,
 St Edmundsbury,
 Suffolk Coastal.

PART XXX

 Gateshead,
 Newcastle upon Tyne,
 North Tyneside,
 South Tyneside,
 Sunderland.

PART XXXI

 North Warwickshire,
 Rugby.

PART XXXII

 Birmingham,
 Coventry,
 Dudley,
 Sandwell,
 Walsall,
 Wolverhampton.

PART XXXIII

 Bradford,
 Leeds,
 Wakefield.

PART XXXIV

 Kennet,
 North Wiltshire,
 West Wiltshire.

PART XXXV

 Bristol,
 Leicester,
 Darlington,
 East Riding of Yorkshire,
 Hartlepool,
 Isle of Wight,
 Kingston upon Hull,
 Middlesborough,
 Milton Keynes,
 North Somerset,
 Portsmouth,
 Redcar & Cleveland,
 Rutland,
 South Gloucestershire,
 Southampton,
 Stoke-on-Trent,
 Thamesdown,
 York.

SCHEDULE 5
Article 2(e)
PART I

 Fenland.

PART II

 Caradon,
 Kerrier,
 North Cornwall,
 Restormel.

PART III

 Amber Valley,
 Bolsover,
 Erewash,
 South Derbyshire.

PART IV

 Torridge.

PART V

 Chester-le-Street,
 Derwentside,
 Sedgefield,
 Teesdale,
 Wear Valley.

PART VI

 Oldham,
 Rochdale.

PART VII

 Charnwood,
 Hinckley and Bosworth,
 Melton,
 North West Leicestershire.

PART VIII

 Boston,
 East Lindsey,
 Lincoln,
 North Kesteven,
 South Holland,
 South Kesteven,
 West Lindsey.

PART IX

 Breckland,
 Great Yarmouth,
 King’s Lynn and West Norfolk,
 North Norfolk,
 South Norfolk.

PART X

 Ashfield,
 Bassetlaw,
 Broxtowe,
 Gedling,
 Mansfield,
 Newark and Sherwood,
 Nottingham,
 Rushcliffe.

PART XI

 North Shropshire.

PART XII

 Barnsley,
 Rotherham.

PART XIII

 Newcastle-under-Lyme.

PART XIV

 Babergh,
 Forest Heath,
 Mid Suffolk,
 Waveney.

PART XV

 Nuneaton and Bedworth.

PART XVI

 Calderdale,
 Kirklees.

PART XVII

 Derby,
 North Lincolnshire,
 North East Lincolnshire,
 Stockton-on-Tees.
