How are properties allocated?How are properties allocated?
Our register holds details of everyone who is asking for a home with us and it is split into many different lists. Within each list, applicants are registered in order of either the number of points they have or by the date they were awarded priority status:
- People who have been approved as homeless under legislation (priority date order)
- People who have been awarded priority on the grounds of social need (priority date order)
- People who have been awarded priority on the grounds of medical need (priority date order)
- Households with children living in flats who want to move into a house (points award order)
- Council tenants who want to transfer to another property -not ground floor (points award order)
- People who are not our tenants who want property that is not ground floor (points award order)
- People who want to move into ground floor property (points award order)
When a property becomes available to let we firstly look at each of the 3 'priority' lists on the Register - if the property is suitable for anyone on the priority lists it will go to them first, starting with the applicant with the earliest priority date. Both Council and non-Council tenants are on these lists.
If the property is not suitable for any 'priority' applicant it will go to one of the other lists, depending on what type of property it is e.g. bungalows will only go to people who are over 60 or have medical priority (category 1 and 2 only) and houses will only be allocated to households who need that size of accommodation.
So far as reasonably possible, properties will be distributed 75% to the Housing Register (non-Council tenants) and 25% to the Transfer Register (Council tenants).
