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Section 87: Housing strategies and statements

Local Government Act 2003 · 2003 c. 26View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 7: Housing finance etc

The Welsh Ministers may—

require a local housing authority in Wales to have a strategy in respect of such matters relating to housing as the Welsh Ministers may specify, and
impose requirements with respect to—
the ends that the strategy is to be designed to achieve,
the formulation of policy for the purposes of the strategy, or
review of the strategy.

The Welsh Ministers may require a local housing authority in Wales, by such time as the Welsh Ministers may specify, to prepare and supply the Welsh Ministers with a statement setting out such material of either of the following descriptions as the Welsh Ministers may specify—

a strategy that the authority is required to have under subsection (1);
other material relating to housing.

The Welsh Ministers may, in relation to a statement whose preparation and supply is required under subsection (2), impose requirements with respect to—

the contents of the statement;
the form of the statement;
the statement's supply to the Welsh Ministers.

In this section—

  • "housing" includes accommodation needs for gypsies and travellers within the meaning of ...

    • section 225 of the Housing Act 2004, in the case of a local housing authority in England;

    • Part 3 of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014, in the case of a local housing authority in Wales;

  • "local housing authority" has the same meaning as in the Housing Act 1985 (c. 68).

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