The Housing (Right to Buy) (Designated Rural Areas and Designated Regions) (England) Order 1981
This Order designates certain areas in England as rural areas for the purposes of section 19 of the Housing Act 1980 (“the 1980 Act”). Under that section where a dwelling-house disposed of in pursuance of Chapter I of Part I of the 1980 Act is situated in a National Park, or an area designated under section 87 of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 as an area of outstanding natural beauty, or an area designated as a rural area, the conveyance or grant effecting that disposal may contain a covenant—limiting the freedom of the purchaser and his successors in title to dispose of the dwelling-house by conveying the freehold or assigning the lease, or granting certain kinds of lease or sub-lease other than with the written consent of the landlord; orgiving the landlord a right of pre-emption.