Band A

• Critical Medical/Welfare award – to include emergency situations

• Releasing a property in need (Council or housing association property within the sub-region) or where it prevents the Council making expensive alterations to the property.

• Tenants Incentive Scheme currently in 3 or 4 bed accommodation moving into smaller accommodation (Council or housing association property in sub-region).
• Two or more assessed housing needs in Band B (does not apply to accepted homeless households as they are dealt with as accepted homeless in particular need).

• Accepted homeless in particular need.

• Nominations (move-on) from specified agencies.

• Adhac (applicants who have been given notice from a tied agricultural property).

• Relationship breakdowns (council properties where they are under-occupying but have been assessed as having housing need).

• Successions (Council properties where they are under-occupying but have been assessed as having housing need).

• Negotiated Surrender – Council or housing association tenants who give up their home to move into prison but have not broken their tenancy conditions – must be agreed with landlord in writing and priority given when released.

   

Band B

• Serious Medical/Welfare award.

• Tenants Incentive Scheme currently in 2 or 1 bedroom accommodation moving to smaller accommodation (Council or housing association property within the sub-region)
• Overcrowding in permanent social housing in the sub-region.

• Accepted homeless cases.

• Applicants threatened with homelessness who are likely to lose their accommodation through no fault of their own, for which there is no legal redress, who are assessed by the particular scheme Council as likely to be in priority need and who are receiving housing advice from the particular scheme Council to prevent homelessness. (Please note, this would require a homeless prevention referral from the particular scheme Council's advice and homeless service.  This priority award is subject to a 3 month time limit).

• A prohibition order or demolition order has been served, or is about to be served in relation to the applicant’s dwelling by the Private Sector Housing Team of the particular scheme Council. This indicates that the property contains one or more category 1 hazards that probably cannot be remedied.

• Those applicants required to leave their homes as a result of an emergency prohibition order served in relation to the premises under the Housing Act 2004.

• An improvement notice has been, or is about to be, served in relation to the applicant’s dwelling by the Private Sector Housing Team of the particular scheme Council and:

         -   The remedies that are needed to reduce the hazard will require the property to be      
             vacated for a significant period of time

         -   The cost of the remedies are beyond the means of the applicant (where applicable) 
 
         -   The remedies will make the property unsuitable for occupation by the applicant.

• Multiple needs - If someone has four or more needs in Band C, they will be moved to Band B.
• Applicants assessed as meeting Band A criteria but with no local connection to the sub-region.

   

Band C

• Moderate medical/welfare award.

• Notice to quit.
• Applicants who are homeless or threatened with homelessness who are assessed by the particular scheme Council as not in priority need.
• Applicants who following a homelessness application have been deemed by the particular scheme Council to be in priority need but intentionally homelessness.
• No fixed abode.
• Overcrowded in private rented accommodation or social housing outside the sub-region or where the local authority is unable to re-let that property due to its agreement with the landlord.
• Fixed term licensees (supported housing schemes).
• Shared facilities with family or friends.
• Lacking facilities e.g. no washing facilities, no bathroom, no cooking facilities, no heating.
• A hazard awareness notice has been served by the Private Sector Housing Team of the particular scheme Council, in relation to a category 1 or 2 hazard at the applicant’s dwelling and:

         -   the remedies that are needed to reduce the hazard will require the property to be
             vacated for a significant period of time; or

         -   the cost of the remedies are beyond the means of the applicant (where applicable); or

         -   the remedies will make the property unsuitable for occupation by the applicant

• A suspended improvement notice or prohibition order exists but a foreseeable change in the applicant’s circumstances will cause it to become active and result in a high priority situation.
• Applicants assessed as meeting Band B criteria but with no local connection to the sub-region.

   

Band D

Band E