Choice of Housing Types

You can tell us the type of property and area you would like to live in and we take this into consideration.

To try and be as fair as possible in deciding who should be offered properties, we use a banding system. The system is based on your housing circumstances, suitability of the property, and any medical problems. Priority is also given within the bands for waiting time.

As banding will be assessed from the information given on the application, please answer all of the questions.

Joint applications: if you have children and you and your partner live apart, the form should be completed from where the children live.

A home visit will usually be carried out before we make a housing offer to make sure that your band reflects your circumstances.

When a vacancy occurs, it is usually offered to the applicant with the highest band , who is eligible for that type of property. However, because of the shortage of social housing and in order to make best use of all the available stock, there may be occasions when properties are prioritised for applicants who have particular medical needs.

For people with disabled persons there is a limited range of purpose built and adapted properties and people with disability will be considered for suitable vacancies on the basis of medical priority.

Level access housing will be allocated according to assessed medical priority.

Where applicants are in the same band the applicant who has been registered the longest will be offered the property.

Priority for houses will be given to applicants with dependent children.

Because there is a lack of four and five bed accommodation, priority for properties with three bedrooms and two living rooms (parlour type) will be given to larger families, to make best use of all the available stock

We reserve the right to determine the size of housing according to family size and housing need in view of the shortage of social housing in the district. The number of homes which become empty each year is far less than the number of applications we receive. For this reason the following is a guide to the type of property we will consider suitable:

Single person	Bedsit or 1 bedroom
Couple	1 bedroom
Two adults who do not live as a couple, for example, brother and sister.	2 bedrooms
Family with 1 child	2 bedrooms
Family with 2 children of the same sex where the eldest is aged up to 15.	2 bedrooms
Family with 2 children of opposite sex under the age of 10.	2 bedrooms
Family with 2 children of opposite sex with one aged 10 or over.	3 bedrooms
Family with 3 children of any sex under the age of 16.	3 bedrooms
Family with 4 children of any sex under the age of 10.	3 bedrooms
Family with 4 children of the same sex under the age of 16.	3 bedrooms
Family with 4 children of different sexes under the age of 16.	3/4 bedrooms
Family with 5 children of different sexes under the age of 16.	4 bedrooms

 

 

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Tel: 01304 872265