Tenant Consultations

Tell us your views: Allocations Policy

Our alloations policy explains how we place applicants on our waiting list. The current policy places applicants into 'bands' (Urgent, High, Medium and Standard) according to their circumstances, and within each band, applicanats are ordered by date of application.

You can read the full allocation policy here.

The current policy has been in place for two years and we are looking to make some changes to it. We feel these changes will better allow us to provide homes for those in most housing need and potentially increase the availability of larger family homes.

The changes we are proposing are as follows:  

• Under-occupancy: Increasing priority for those under-occupying their own socially rented property.  Currently, any social housing tenant who is under-occupying their home is placed on our Medium band. We propose to change this so that if they under-occupy by 2 beds they will be placed in our High band, and if they under-occupy by 3 beds or more they will be placed in our Urgent band. Those under occupying-by one bed would remain in our Medium band.
• Applicants moving for care, support or employment opportunities: Applicants applying to move in order to provide or receive care or support, or for employment opportunities, are currently placed on our High band. We are proposing to amend this so that they will be placed on our Medium band.
• Shared facilities: Those applicants who have to share cooking, toilet and/or bathing facilities with others who are not part of the same household are currently placed within our High band. We are proposing to break this category into two to distinguish between those who are sharing a home with their own family, and those who for example are sharing a property with friends as a short term solution. Those sharing with friends would be placed on our High band. Those sharing with their own family would be placed on our Medium band.

As outlined above we hope these changes will make it easier for those in larger family homes to downsize thus freeing up larger properties. We also feel the other changes will ensure that those most likely to be offered properties are in the greatest housing need.

We have created a survey to make it easy for you to share your thoughts. You can fill out the survey here.

The closing date for responses is 8th May

Thankyou for your time.