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Registration with the Scottish Housing Regulator

Introduction

Part of our role as Regulator is to provide advice and information about the registration process for organisations considering becoming an RSL, and to assess applications for admission to the register of social landlords. If you are considering registration with us, it is important that you contact us at the earliest opportunity in your development to ensure that registration requirements are understood from the outset.

This site should be useful to organisations involved in:

• local authority transfers to community ownership;

• Local Housing Organisations involved in second stage transfers from Glasgow Housing Association; and

• other bodies interested in becoming registered social landlords.

Regulation and the Scottish Housing Regulator

We:

• maintain a register of social landlords;

• set registration criteria;

• admit new landlords to the register; and

• have been delegated the regulation role by Scottish Ministers.

Being registered with the Scottish Housing Regulator means that a social landlord has to:

• meet challenging Performance Standards;

• allow us access to any records and information about or related to the organisation;

• be subject to periodic inspections; and

• be subject to statutory action by us should it fail to meet the standards required.

Registration criteria and process

• Guidance note SHR 08 sets out the criteria for admission to and removal from the register of social landlords.

• Further information about our registration criteria can be found here.

• Application form - for registration with the Scottish Housing Regulator, except for second stage transfers in Glasgow.


Applicants should note that tacit authorisation does not apply to applications to become a Registered Social landlord in Scotland. The Scottish Housing Regulator has a legitimate interest in ensuring that persons providing services to tenants are suitably qualified to do so and organisations are well managed and sustainable.

Organisations considering registration with the Scottish Housing Regulator should email us at shr@scottishhousingregulator.gsi.gov.uk or call (0141) 271 3810.

A list of other bodies which may be able to provide useful information can be found here.