Durham Key Options

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 occupying unsanitory, overcrowded (0ne bedroom short) or otherwise unsatisfactory housing
• 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.