House of Commons - Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions - Fifth Report

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Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: Housing, Planning,
Local Government and the Regions - Fifth Report

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 27 April 2004.

CONTENTS

Terms of Reference

Summary
1 Introduction

A Decent Home for all?
The target
The baseline
The terms of this inquiry

2 The definition of a Decent Home

Criterion 1: Meeting the current minimum standard for housing
Criterion 2: A reasonable state of repair
Criterion 3: Reasonably modern facilities and services
Criterion 4: A reasonable degree of thermal comfort
Is thermal 'comfort' comfortable?
Eradicating fuel poverty and lowering carbon emissions - coordinated policy-making?
Measurement Methodology
Aspects excluded from the definition
Internal noise insulation
Too basic to be decent?
Decent Homes in relation to the Sustainable Communities agenda
Decent Homes Plus?

3 Progress towards the 2010 target

The rate of progress
The social housing sector
The Private housing sector
The cost of reaching the target
The private housing sector

4 Social housing

Local Authority housing
The separation of stock management from strategic housing management
The funding models available to local authorities
The tension between tenant choice and Government funding options
A level playing field?
Registered Social Landlords
Dowry Funding
Demolition and sale as a means to achieve the target

5 The private sector

The applicability of the target in the private sector
The private rented sector
The owner-occupied sector
Enforcement
Funding

6 Conclusion
Conclusions and recommendations
Formal Minutes
Witnesses
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE

Tuesday 9 December 2003
Tuesday 16 December 2003
Tuesday 13 January 2004
Tuesday 28 January 2004
Monday 2 February 2004
Written Evidence
List of supplementary written evidence
Reports from the ODPM Committee since 2003

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Prepared 7 May 2004