However, this is where housing policy development in Westminster and Holyrood go their separate ways.

As we report this week, Scotland has now begun promoting its inaugural ‘social housing charter’ which Scottish ministers hope will become law in March. The document is intended to spell out to providers and their tenants what constitutes good service and will form the basis of regulation under a proposed new independent watchdog. Any of this sound familiar to English landlords…?

The majority of our online readers who responded to our survey on the future of social housing regulation in England called for the Tenant Services Authority to be saved. When they look north of the border they will feel more than a little aggrieved.

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