ABSTRACT
Quite apart from security of tenure, secure tenants have a number of other rights which are incorporated in the so-called ‘Tenants’ Charter’. The improvement programmes of local authority landlords have been severely affected by cuts in capital spending. Section 106A gives a right to secure and introductory tenants whose local authority landlord is intending to dispose of its dwellings to a private sector landlord, to be consulted prior to the disposal. Secure tenants have the right to either pay the freehold or be granted a long lease of the dwelling-house in which they are living. The price payable for the dwelling-house is its market value at the time when the tenant serves notice under s. 122 claiming to exercise the right to buy (RTB), less the discount to which the purchaser is entitled. A tenant wishing to exercise the RTB must serve a notice on the landlord.
