The council has had a housing register for a number of years. In July 2002, important changes were made to the law on housing registers. Before the changes in the law, the council had a housing register and a separate transfer list for existing tenants who wanted to move. The law now says that all applications for housing and all lettings to accommodation must be done through one single register.

The housing register is a record of all eligible persons who apply to the council for alternative accommodation. The Council uses the housing register to record the different housing needs of applicants and to decide who should be offered council or housing association accommodation. All permanent lettings to council housing or by nomination to housing association accommodation must be made from the housing register, including transfer requests from existing tenants.

An application to join the housing register does not guarantee that the Council will be able to provide alternative accommodation and accommodation will only be offered to those with the highest priority on the housing register.

Use the links above to see more of the allocations policy. The information given in these pages is a brief summary of the Council's Allocation Policy.

From 2010, all local housing authorities have to operate a choice based lettings scheme for the allocation of social housing. To find out more, please see our Choice Based Lettings page.

To see the kind of service you can expect from us, please see our Service Standard for Allocations.

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