Banding & Priority

ASSESSING HOUSING NEED: PRIORITY FOR REHOUSING

This Scheme is a banding scheme. Qualifying applicants are placed in one of five bands ranging from A (high) to E (low) which reflects their housing need and the Council’s priorities for housingallocation. 

If the applicants’ circumstances meet more than one award criterion, the application will be placed in the highest band applicable.

Detailed definitions for each category are defined below:

Band A

All Applicants
  • Exceptional circumstances
  • National Witness Protection Scheme
  • MAPPA
  • Approved management transfers from outside the borough (Reciprocal Agreements – S16.4.8)
     

Transfer Tenants                                      (Basildon Council/Registered Provider/Sempra Homes)
  • Management Transfers
  • Decants – in a home due for demolition or major repairs
  • Underoccupancy (Downsizing) - tenants downsizing to non-family accommodation.
     

Basildon Council Tenants
  • Eligible under the Transfer Plus Scheme
  • Standard Allocation Exceptions
  • Successions – required to move to a smaller property
  • Tenants in upper sheltered accommodation (no lift) with a medical need for ground floor and wish to remain in the same sheltered scheme
     

Band B

Applicants with a Local Residence Connection

 

 

 
  • Medical/Welfare Level 1 award
  • Lacking two or more bedrooms
  • Living in housing which is insanitary or in serious disrepair presenting an immediate or imminent threat to life or serious bodily injury
  • Homeless applicants in temporary accommodation provided by Basildon Council after 6 months
  • Homeless applicants accepted by Basildon Council, in supported accommodation ready to move on
  • Homeless at Home applicants (with a main housing duty accepted by Basildon Council)
  • Approved Child leaving care nominations
  • Applicants in partner-provided supported accommodation ready to move on
  • Applicants who meet the armed forces residence criteria with urgent housing needs
     

Transfer Tenants                                      (Basildon Council/Registered Provider)
  • Held a secure/assured/fixed term/introductory tenancy in Brooke House for more than 12 months – subject to criteria - See Appendix 6
     

Transfer Tenants (Basildon Council/Registered Provider/Sempra Homes)
  • Statutory overcrowding
  • In a home with specialist adaptations no longer needed
  • Downsizing from a 4-bed property or above to a 2-bed property
  • Band A Downsizer (refusal of first offer)
     

Basildon Council Tenants
  • Non statutory Successions – subject to approval
  • Band A Transfer Plus scheme (refusal of first offer)
     

Band C

Applicants with a Local residence connection

 
  • Medical/Welfare Level 2 award
  • Lacking one bedroom
  • Living in housing which is insanitary or in serious disrepair not addressed within a reasonable timescale
  • Hardship applicants
  • Homeless applicants in temporary accommodation (less than 6 months)
  • Homeless applicants in supported accommodation not ready to move on
     

Applicants without a Local Residence Connection

 

 

 

 

 
  • Medical/Welfare Level 1 award
  • Lacking two or more bedrooms
  • Living in housing which is insanitary or in serious disrepair presenting an immediate or imminent threat to life or serious bodily injury
  • Homeless applicants in temporary accommodation provided by Basildon Council after 6 months 
  • Homeless applicants accepted by Basildon Council, in supported accommodation ready to move on
  • Homeless at Home applicants (with a main housing duty accepted by Basildon Council)
     

Transfer Tenants                                      (Basildon Council/Registered Provider/Sempra Homes)
  • Underoccupancy (Downsizing) – Tenants downsizing to family-sized accommodation

 

Band D

Applicants with a Local Residence Connection
  • Sharing kitchen or bathroom facilities with persons not considered as part of the housing application
  • Qualifying applicants moving to sheltered (including moving to another sheltered scheme)
  • Non-priority homeless/other homelessness/under notice

Applicants without a Local Residence Connection

 

 

 

 

 
  • Hardship applicants
  • Medical/Welfare Level 2 award
  • Lacking one bedroom
  • Homeless applicants in temporary accommodation provided by Basildon Council less than 6 months
  • Living in housing which is insanitary or in serious disrepair not addressed within a reasonable timescale
  • Homeless applicants in supported accommodation not ready to move on
  • Approved under the Right to Move – appendix 3

Band E

Applicants with a Local Residence Connection

 
  • Sheltered housing with local residence connection but fail the financial limits test
  • In Basildon Council partner-provided supported housing, including Child in Care nominations, not ready to move on into independent living accommodation.
  • Homeless applicants placed in interim accommodation by Basildon Council
     

Applicants without a Local Residence Connection

 

 
  • Non-priority homeless/other homelessness/under notice 
  • Sheltered housing who fail the local residence connection and/or financial limits test

 

All applicants
  • Extra care scheme only
  • Unacceptable Behaviour