The Localism Act 2011 places a duty on local housing authorities to prepare and publish a Tenancy Strategy. These strategies set out the matters to which private registered providers of social housing are to have regard in formulating their policies on tenancies in terms of:
- The kinds of tenancies they grant
- The circumstances in which they will grant a tenancy of a particular kind
- Where they grant tenancies for a certain term, the length of the terms, and
- The circumstances in which they will grant a further tenancy on the coming to an end of an existing tenancy