Catalogue description Department of the Environment: Housing Private Rented Sector Division; Registered Files (HPRS series)

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Reference: AT 144
Title: Department of the Environment: Housing Private Rented Sector Division; Registered Files (HPRS series)
Description:

This series contains records of the Housing Private Rented Sector (HPRS) Division, which was a large division with several branches and a comparatively large amount of policy material survives across its areas of responsibility.
Date: 1974-1999
Related material:

H5 files in HLG 118 deal with similar subjects from an earlier period: HLG 118
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: HPRS series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, Housing Private Rented Sector, 1988-2002
Physical description: 158 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2018 Department for Communities and Local Government
Custodial history: Department of Environment 1988-1996, Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions 1997-2001, Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions 2001-2002, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister 2002-2006, Department for Communities and Local Government 2006-2018, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government 2018-
Selection and destruction information: Policy files are recommended for retention. Non-primary and routine files are not.
Accruals: Series is sccruing
Administrative / biographical background:

In 1988 the HPRS Division (Housing Private Rented Sector) was set up as part of the re-organisation of the Housing Divisions, which spawned the breaking up of the large and well established H prefix (see HLG 118).

Divisional responsibility was for the private rented sector and included the Rent Acts, assured tenancies, Rent Assessment Panels, the Rent Officer Service, leasehold reform, mansion blocks and service charges, mobile homes and house boats, houses in multiple occupation, empty (other than local authority) residential property, apportionment and redemption of rent charges (policy only; case work was conducted in the Rent Charges Unit at North West Regional Office) and ground rents.

In 1999 HPRS was given responsibility for preparing the Rent Officer Service for agency status and developing IT systems for the service. HPRS was also given responsibility for improving stock condition and stimulating investment in the private rented sector including through the use of Housing Investment Trusts.

In 2002 HPRS was replaced by the HPS (Housing Private Sector) prefix and division which covered all private sector housing, both owner occupied and private sector.

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