🏠 How Your Housing Application Is Assessed
If you apply to join the housing register, here’s what happens next:
✅ Step 1 – Checking Your Application
We will:
- Check if you are eligible
- Look at your housing needs
- Possibly visit your home to understand your situation better
📊 Step 2 – Your Priority Band
Once we assess your application, we will place you in a band from A to D:
- Band A – Urgent housing need
- Band B – High priority
- Band C – Medium priority
- Band D – Low priority
You’ll get a letter explaining your band and a registration card.
❌ If You’re Not Eligible
We’ll write to you and explain why.
You have the right to ask for a review of the decision.
📄 Read our Right to Request a Review leaflet
📌 How We Decide Priority
By law, we must give priority to:
- People who are homeless
- People who are overcrowded or live in poor conditions
- People who need to move for medical or disability reasons
- People who need to move to avoid hardship
We also look at:
- Your income and savings
- Your local connection to Tendring
- Your rental history and behaviour as a tenant
🎖 Extra Priority
You may get extra priority if:
- You or your partner work 16+ hours a week and have done so for 12 months
- You’ve been approved for fostering or adoption
- You or someone in your household is in the armed forces or was honourably discharged in the last 5 years
🏘 How We Offer Homes
We offer homes to people with the highest priority on the register.
Sometimes we offer homes to:
- People in an emergency
- People with special care needs
- People moving from one council home to another
- Homeless applicants in temporary housing
📄 Read our guide to council accommodation
