From Next year, Councils will be free to design and run incentive schemes to release housing.
The government said it will not require them to ask permission before offering grants to people prepared to move out.

Currently councils must get government consent each year for the grant schemes, which are worth £11m in total.

Councils in the east and south gave 827 grants to tenants last year to help them buy a new home.

The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is consulting over the move, which it says will cut red tape, until 18 October.

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Housing Today

Postscript

To join in the consultation, see www.housing.odpm.gov.uk/information/consult/cis/pdf/conpaper.pdf