Catalogue description Department of the Environment and Successors: Housing Action Trusts Branch: Registered Files (HAT Prefix Series)

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Reference: AT 157
Title: Department of the Environment and Successors: Housing Action Trusts Branch: Registered Files (HAT Prefix Series)
Description:

This series contains records relating to sponsorship of the Housing Action Trusts (HATs) by the Department of the Environment and its successors (DETR, DTLR, ODPM, DCLG), including policy on their management and on the disposal of their assets
Date: 1996-2006
Arrangement:

The records are arranged in former reference order within accessions
Related material:

See AT 139

See AT 142
Former reference in its original department: HAT Prefix
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department for Communities and Local Government, 2006-2018

Department of the Environment, Local Authority Housing Finance Division, 1989-1997

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, Local Authority Housing Finance, 1997-2001

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, 2002-2006
Physical description: file(s)
Access conditions: Records not yet transferred
Immediate source of acquisition:

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Accruals: The series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

Housing Action Trusts (HATs) were set up under the provisions of the Housing Act 1988 to regenerate priority housing estates. The setting up of individual HATs was superintended by Housing Management and Estate Action Division (HMEA). Once set up sponsorship of the HATs was the responsibility of the HAT Branch which sat at first in Regeneration Division 1, but later moved to Local Authority Housing Finance (LAH). Each HAT was run by a Board appointed by the Secretary of State. There were 8 HATs - North Hull, Stonebridge, Tower Hamlets, Liverpool, Waltham Forest and Castle Vale. The properties managed by the HATs were progressively transferred to Housing Associations as they were regenerated. The HATs were all wound up by 2007 and residual responsibilities passed to English Partnerships

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