Decanting
- The legal process of transferring tenants from one property to another.
- Most often associated with social housing and overseen by Decant Officers.
- Applied in situations where properties have fallen below or never attained an acceptable housing standard or via natural disasters e.g. flooding.
- Tenants may have a right to return to their original property following improvements or renovations - subject to time limits on length of occupation. Alternatively tenants may have no right to return but a right to remain at their new dwelling.
- Tenants may have no right to return and in some instances no right to be decanted and may simply be evicted.
Published: 24 September 2015 Last Updated: 17 November 2021