
1 
This Order may be cited as the Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 3rd June 1999.
2 
There are designated as rural areas for the purposes of section 1AA(3)(a) of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 (additional right to enfranchise) and section 17 of the Housing Act 1996 (the right to acquire)–
(a) the parishes named in the second column of Part I of the Schedule in the counties named in the first column, and
(b) the areas described in Part II of the Schedule and more particularly shown bounded by a black line and cross hatched on one of the maps entitled “Map referred to in the Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas) Order 1999” of which prints, signed by a member of the Senior Civil Service in the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, are deposited and available for inspection at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions.
3 
The references to the following parishes are deleted–
(a) in Schedule 1 to the Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas in the East) Order 1997, in Part III (Derbyshire) “Dronfield” and in Schedule 2 to that Order, in Part VI (Leicestershire) “Ashby Woulds” and “Oakethorpe and Donisthorpe”;
(b) in Schedule 1 to the Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas in the North East) Order 1997, in Part IX (Northumberland) “Tosson” and in Schedule 2 to that Order, in Part VI (Northumberland) “Broomley and Stocksfield”;
(c) in Schedule 2 to the Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas in the South West) Order 1997, in Part V (Devon) “Buckland Monachorum”,and any parish or other area which ceases accordingly to be specified in any of those Orders ceases to be designated for the purposes specified in article 2 of this Order so far as it is not otherwise designated by that article.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Hilary Armstrong
Minister of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
6th May 1999
SCHEDULE
Article 2
Part I

County Parish
Derbyshire Bakewell, Hatton
Devon Ashburton, Buckland Monachorum, Horrabridge
Essex Tollesbury
Kent Boughton in the Blean, Higham, Meopham, Newington (in the District of Swale)
Leicestershire Ashby Woulds, Oakethorpe and Donisthorpe
Lincolnshire Coningsby, Tattershall
Medway Towns Cuxton
North Somerset Locking
Northumberland Rothbury, Whitton and Tosson, Widdrington Station and Stobswood
Suffolk Rushmere
Warwickshire Binley Woods
West Yorkshire Clifford, East Keswick
Part II

 In Leicestershire, the parish of Castle Donington excluding the settlement of Castle Donington.
 In West Yorkshire, the unparished area of the borough of Pudsey excluding the settlements of Guiseley and Yeadon, and the unparished area of the county constituency of Elmet, bounded by the county constituency of Pontefract and Castleford, the county constituency of Normanton and the parishes of Swillington, Great and Little Preston, Austhorpe, Barwick in Elmet and Scholes, Parlington, Sturton Grange and Ledston excluding the settlements of Garforth, Great Preston and Kippax.
