Council housing

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Overcrowding
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Housing band definitions

APPENDIX A – HOUSING NEEDS BANDS
Extracted from Housing Allocations Policy 2011 (Summary version)

HOUSING NEEDS BAND ‘A’

1. Applicants who need to move urgently because of a critical medical or welfare need, including emergencies.

2. Applicants who, at the discretion of the Council, need to move urgently because there are critical safeguarding circumstances.

3. Tenants of the Council or of partner housing associations who have been approved for an emergency management transfer because of harassment, domestic violence or hate crime, including cases agreed through reciprocal arrangements with other local authorities.

4. Haringey Council tenants and partner housing association tenants living in Haringey who are under-occupying a family home (with three or more bedrooms) and are willing to transfer to a home that has at least two fewer bedrooms.

5. Haringey Council tenants and partner housing association tenants living in Haringey who are under-occupying a two-bedroom family home and are willing to transfer to a bedsit or one-bedroom home.

6. Haringey Council tenants and partner housing association tenants living in Haringey who are occupying a specially-adapted home and are willing to transfer to a home that is more appropriate to their needs.

7. Applicants who have a right of succession to a Council tenancy or where the Council has exercised its discretion to those not entitled to succeed but are under-occupying their accommodation (or occupying a specially-adapted home) and are required to move to somewhere smaller and/or more appropriate to their needs.

8. Haringey Council tenants and partner housing association tenants living in Haringey who require extensive disabled facilities that can be provided more appropriately in alternative accommodation.

9. Applicants who are in severe need and have been accepted for rehousing, by Haringey Council, under the homelessness legislation.

10. Haringey Council tenants and partner housing association tenants living in Haringey who need to be permanently decanted in order to enable essential repairs or redevelopment to be carried out, or as part of a regeneration scheme in Haringey.

11. Applicants who are required to leave their homes as a result of an prohibition order served by the Council or the Fire Service in relation to the premises.

12. Applicants (including young care leavers and people leaving hospital, residential care and supported housing) who are nominated for move-on accommodation by named agencies in accordance with an agreed nominations agreement that includes specific quotas.

13. Retiring service tenants who are living in Council accommodation and for whom

Haringey Council has a contractual obligation to provide accommodation.

14. Situations where it is in the overriding interests of the Council to prioritise an allocation of housing to a particular household and/or it is necessary to fulfil an urgent statutory or legal duty.

15. Applicants (except homeless households for whom the Council has accepted a rehousing duty) who have two or more needs in Band B.

Note: Applicants assessed as meeting Housing Needs Band A criteria but with no local connection with Haringey will be placed in Band

C, except in those cases of emergency management transfer through reciprocal arrangements with other local authorities.

 

HOUSING NEEDS BAND ‘B’

1. Applicants who need to move because they have been assessed as having a serious medical or welfare need.

2. Haringey Council tenants and partner housing association tenants living in Haringey who are severely overcrowded and have at least two rooms less than the number of rooms to which they would be entitled to under Haringey’s Housing Allocations Policy. This includes reception rooms that could reasonably be used as bedrooms.

3. Adult (aged over 25) members of the households of Council and partner housing association tenants living in Haringey who require single person accommodation, and where the household is severely overcrowded and has at least two rooms less than the number of rooms to which they would be entitled under Haringey’s Allocations Policy. This includes reception rooms that could reasonably be used as bedrooms.

4. Applicants for whom Haringey Council has accepted a full rehousing duty under the homelessness legislation.

5. Applicants who need to move to a particular locality in the Borough, where failure to meet that need would cause hardship to themselves or to others.

6. Applicants living in accommodation for which an improvement notice has been served, or is about to be served, by Haringey Council in relation to the applicant’s dwelling and the Council has determined that the dwelling must be vacated because the remedies that are needed to reduce the hazard will require the property to be vacated for a significant period of time or will make the property unsuitable for occupation by the applicant.

7. Applicants with 4 or more needs in Housing Needs Band C.

8. Applicants who, at the discretion of the Council, need to move urgently because there are serious safeguarding circumstances.

Note: Applicants assessed as meeting Housing Needs Band B criteria but with no local connection with Haringey will be placed in Band

D. They will have a lower relative priority than those applicants in Band D who do have a local connection, regardless of those applicants having later ‘effective dates’.