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Prioritising Applications

         

All applications received will be assessed and placed in one of the following application bands, 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 Band Qualify Criteria

A+

(High Priority Need)

Applicants within this band are eligible for all properties via the choice based lettings scheme, providing the property entitlement criteria is met, where applicants are residing in:

  • A regeneration scheme within County Durham

A

(High  Housing Need)

  • Urgent medical reasons
  • Supply and demand transfers

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 statutorily 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 statutorily homeless with a full duty to be housed under part 7 of the Housing Act
  • Applicants occupying unsanitary, overcrowded (one bedroom short of requirements) or otherwise unsatisfactory housing.
  • Applicants who need to move due to medical or welfare grounds.
  • Applicants who need to move to a particular locality to avoid hardship.

Band C+

(General Housing Need)

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 statutorily homeless with a full duty to be used under part 7 of the Housing Act 1996
  • Applicants living in intensive supported housing where their support plan identifies ability to successfully move into an independent tenancy
  • Care leavers.

Band C

(General Housing Need)

Applicants who fall into one of the following preference groups:

  • Applicants occupying unsanitary, 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

Band D

(Other Housing Need)

Applicants who have a housing need which is not one of the statutory 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 been medically discharged.
  • Applicants wishing to live independently with no other 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 homelessness

Band E

(No Priority)

Applicants who are adequately housed and have no other housing need.

Band F

(Reduced Priority)

Applicants with a reduced priority within the scheme as a consequence of outstanding rent arrears (not caused by exceptional hardship) or unacceptable behaviour.


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