Housing Allocations Policy

The Transfer List: How Points Are Awarded

The Transfer List: How points are awarded- A Summary*

CATEGORY	NUMBER OF POINTS
Overcrowding	10 points for each additional bedroom the household needs
Excess bedrooms	10 points for each excess bedroom
Children in flats	5 points per child under 14
Length of Council tenancy	1 point for each year of tenancy
Medical points	See section Medical Points
Waiting time	2 points for every 6 months on the waiting list

* For detailed rules refer to relevant section.

OVERCROWDING

See Overcrowding Section

AN EXCESS NUMBER OF BEDROOMS (UNDER- OCCUPATION)

The applicant shall be awarded points for under-occupation if they are living in a property with more bedrooms than he/she needs and wishes to move to a smaller property.

Points shall be awarded at a rate of 10 points for each extra bedroom not required by the applicant in meeting his/her accommodation needs as set out in the accommodation section of this policy.

Notes

Applicants who have chosen an additional bedroom in accordance with the section What size of accommodation can be chosen? will have these points calculated on the basis of the difference between the size of their current home and the size they have requested.

For example, a transfer applicant lives in a 3 bedroom property and asks to transfer to a 2 bedroom property, the difference between what they have and what they want is 1, so they would be awarded 10 points for one excess bedroom.

Transfer applicants who are underoccupying accommodation as defined by the Under-Occupation section above of this policy may choose to be held for 1 bedroom more than they require to help utilise stock.

CHILDREN LIVING IN BLOCKS OF FLATS WITH A COMMON ENTRANCE

Applicants who currently live in a property where their main entrance door is accessed through an enclosed common entrance will be awarded 5 points for each child under 14 who is part of the applicant’s household at the date of application or subsequently becomes part of the household.

Where a child for whom points were originally awarded leaves the applicant’s household or applies for housing the points will be deducted. If the child subsequently returns to the family home the points will not be reinstated.

Points will be awarded even where the applicant wishes to transfer to a similar property.

LENGTH OF CURRENT COUNCIL TENANCY

Applicants will be awarded 1 point for each complete year of their current tenancy up to the date they applied to transfer. No more tenancy points will be awarded unless the applicant cancels their application and reapplies at a later date.

An applicant who has succeeded to a tenancy will receive tenancy points for their tenancy only. However, if a spouse or co-habitee has succeeded to the tenancy from their partner, tenancy points will be awarded from the date the succeeding spouse or co-habitee moved into the property.

Tenancy points will not be awarded to sheltered or ground level applications lodged after 17 June 1996.

MEDICAL POINTS

See Medical Points

WAITING TIME

See Waiting Time