All applications received will be assessed and placed in one of 6 application groups, A to F. The table below sets out the groups and gives examples of those applicants who would be eligible to be placed in each group.
Allocation Group
Qualify Criteria
A+
High Priority Need
Applicants within this band are eligible for all properties via the choice based lettings scheme in the first instance in cases of:
Regeneration schemes within County Durham
A
High Housing Need
Urgent medical reasons
Supply and demand tranfers
Urgent medical cases are given priority over supply and demand transfers
B+
Multiple Housing need
Applicants with two or more housing needs (detailed in B) where at least one is in the following preference groups:
Homeless applicants accepted as staturorily homeless with a full duty to be housed under part 7 of the Housing Act due to violence or threat of violence.
Applicants who need to move due to high medical need
Applicants overcrowded by at least two bedrooms
Band B
Multiple Housing need
Applicants with two or more housing needs from the following preference groups:
Homeless applicants accepted as staturorily homeless with a full duty to be housed under part 7 of the Housing Act
applicants occupying unsanitory, overcrowded (one bedroom short of requirements) or otherwise unsatisfactory housing.
Band C+
Band C
Band D
Band E
Band F
Applicants who fall into one of the following preference groups:
Applicants who need to move due to high medical need
applicants overcrowded by at least two bedrooms
Homeless applicants accepted as staturorily homeless with a full duty to be used under part 7 of the Housing Act 1996
Applicants living in instensive supported housing where their support plan identifies ability to sucessfully move into an independent tenancy
Care leavers.
Applicants who fall into one of the following preference groups:
Applicants who need to move on medical or welfare grounds
Applicants who need to move to a particular locality to avoid hardship
Non statutory homeless
Applicants who have a housing need which is not one of the staturoty preference groups
Applicants leaving the armed forces who do not fall within the criteria of the homeless legislation and have served three years or longer or who have beed medically discharged.
Applicants wishing to live independently with no othe housing need
Applicants needing larger accommodation (outside the overcrowding criteria) with no housing need
Relationship breakdown with no housing need
Applicants threatened with homelessness within three months in order to prevent homelessnsess
Applicants who are adequately housed and have no other housing need.
Applicants with a reduced priority within the scheme as a consequence of outstanding rent arrears (not caused by exceptional hardship) or unacceptable behaviour.