Policy papers and consultations

​​This call for evidence seeks to understand the impact of the leaseholder protections where a leasehold property is owned by 2 or more individuals.​

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 4 April 2024

• Call for evidence: Jointly owned properties

  Background: The Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA) provides far-reaching…

Government will begin naming and shaming failing social housing landlords on social media.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 2 April 2024

• Naming and shaming failing social housing landlords

  The Department will highlight poor practice by social housing landlords…

Consultation seeking views on a regulatory Competence and Conduct Standard for social housing staff including qualification requirements.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 28 March 2024

• Consultation on a direction to the Regulator of Social Housing to set a Competence and Conduct Standard for social housing

  Scope of the consultation Topic of this consultation: This consultation…

• Annex E: Summary of the Social Housing Professionalisation Review

  In this document, we set out the following: The background to the…

Proposals on standards registered providers must meet so tenants live in safe, quality homes, have choice and protection, and can hold landlords to account.

• From: Regulator of Social Housing
• Updated: 29 February 2024

Proposed guidance on how RSH uses, and intends to use, its statutory regulatory and enforcement powers and certain general powers following legislative changes

• From: Regulator of Social Housing
• Updated: 29 February 2024

This consultation seeks views from local housing authorities, social housing landlords, tenants and applicants on proposals to amend social housing allocation rules.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 30 January 2024

This consultation seeks views on Directions from the Secretary of State to the Regulator of Social Housing in relation to the provision of information on tenants’ rights and complaints.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 19 January 2024

A consultation on new requirements under ‘Awaab’s Law’, including timescales for repairs in the social rented sector.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 9 January 2024

Government planning policy for traveller sites which should be read in conjunction with the National Planning Policy Framework.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
• Updated: 19 December 2023

This consultation seeks views on capping the maximum ground rent that residential leaseholders can be required to pay in England and Wales.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 8 December 2023

Impact assessment for the government’s consultation “modern leasehold: restricting ground rent for existing leases”. ​

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 6 December 2023

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is consulting on proposed replacement legislation for the Vagrancy Act.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 2 others
• Updated: 28 November 2023

This consultation seeks views on a number of reforms to the leasehold and commonhold system following recommendations in the Law Commission’s reports published in July 2020.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 27 November 2023

The Regulator of Social Housing is consulting on its equality objectives.

• From: Regulator of Social Housing
• Updated: 19 October 2023

The Regulator of Social Housing’s updated equality objectives were finalised in October 2023

• From: Regulator of Social Housing
• Updated: 19 October 2023

Reforms to shared ownership rents for new shared owners including switching the maximum amount that shared ownership rents can increase by once a year from the Retail Prices Index (RPI) plus 0.5%, to the Consumer Prices Inde…

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 12 October 2023

The outcomes of the review into the operation of the Housing Health and Safety Rating System.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 7 September 2023

The Regulator of Social Housing is consulting on proposed changes to its fees principles and levels in line with recent legislative and government requirements.

• From: Regulator of Social Housing
• Updated: 5 September 2023

The ONS are seeking views on our ambitious plans for the transformation of our household financial statistics.

• From: Office for National Statistics
• Updated: 17 August 2023

This call for evidence will help to inform the deliberations of the Older People’s Housing Taskforce.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Updated: 24 July 2023