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Conservative Manifesto - Right to Buy Question
chrisyboy
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Question…
Currently I live with my partner and 2 children in a HA property which is classed as in a ‘rural parish’. On this basis we currently do not have any rights to purchase the property. The parish is a small village where me and my partner have grown up, in an ideal world we would love to buy however houses coming up for sale are very few and far between, and when they do are well beyond our means. As we are classed as in ‘affordable rent’ our monthly rental is actually considerably more than both of my brother’s houses. We have started to save and ideally want to be in a position to buy in the next few years but unfortunatlely this may have to be outside of the village we have grown up in and love.
You all know this is coming, now the Conservative Party are in power again for the next 5 years, on top of the manifesto was to give HA tenants the right to buy their homes. I am no expert but I have been told that the ruling will remain that we can’t buy our property as still in a rural parish however Mr Cameron has quoted many times that ‘ALL’ HA tenants will have the right to buy
If this was the case that would be beyond a dream for us, is anyone out there gemmed up with this??
Any help will be much appreciated
Currently I live with my partner and 2 children in a HA property which is classed as in a ‘rural parish’. On this basis we currently do not have any rights to purchase the property. The parish is a small village where me and my partner have grown up, in an ideal world we would love to buy however houses coming up for sale are very few and far between, and when they do are well beyond our means. As we are classed as in ‘affordable rent’ our monthly rental is actually considerably more than both of my brother’s houses. We have started to save and ideally want to be in a position to buy in the next few years but unfortunatlely this may have to be outside of the village we have grown up in and love.
You all know this is coming, now the Conservative Party are in power again for the next 5 years, on top of the manifesto was to give HA tenants the right to buy their homes. I am no expert but I have been told that the ruling will remain that we can’t buy our property as still in a rural parish however Mr Cameron has quoted many times that ‘ALL’ HA tenants will have the right to buy
If this was the case that would be beyond a dream for us, is anyone out there gemmed up with this??
Any help will be much appreciated
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You realise this wont come in for at least a year, if at all.
So no, no-one will be able to answer your question. It was a policy, it's not gone through anything more than being written down in their manifesto.0 -
In 2010 they said no child benefit/tax credit cut or top down reorganisation of the NHS.....
Don't believe anything in that book is worth more than the paper it's written on.
Mind you as this is an unbelievably stupid policy, it'll probably be one of the few things they actually action.0
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