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Housing Application Information

Guidance Notes

Welcome to Havering’s Housing Register online application form. Please note that this application is for new housing applications only. If you are already on the housing register, but want to notify a change of circumstances, complete the change of circumstances form to update your details.

About the on-line form

You will be asked for information about you and all the people included in your application. This means you have to provide full names, dates of birth, income, address history and any history of unacceptable behaviour to complete the form. It is a good idea to have all this information ready before you start. However, you can partially complete and save the form so that you can access it again at a later date.

The Housing Application form is completed in two parts. Once you have completed the form below, you will then need to complete the second part of your Housing Application on our portal (My Havering Account)

As soon as both parts of the form have been fully completed and submitted, your Housing Application will then be automatically passed to the Housing Choice and Applications team for an initial assessment. As part of this, your Housing Application will be assessed to determine your eligibility and qualification criteria for joining the Housing Register and the final outcome will be provided by email.

Before filling the form it is advisable to check whether you would meet the Qualification Criteria to join Havering’s Housing Register. We recommend you read the full Housing Allocation scheme which is available on the website at Havering Housing Allocation Scheme.

If you have any problems completing the application form

Please use our Ask Housing contact form if you have any issues completing the application, alternatively you can contact the Housing Choice and Applications Team on 01708 434130 or email housingneeds@havering.gov.uk

Privacy statement and information sharing

The information you provide in the pre-assessment from will be used to assess your social housing application.

We are permitted by law, in order to prevent and detect fraud or any other criminal activity, to share some of the information provided by you with other agencies making lawful requests for such information.

In addition, we may take part in data matching exercises for example under the National Fraud Initiative to verify the information which you provide. We may also cross check the information you provide with credit reference agencies or through the National Association of Fraud investigators for the purposes of fraud prevention. This sort of data sharing is in addition to the sharing we carry out with your consent

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1. Main Applicant Details

Title*

First Name*

Family/Surname*

Date of Birth*

Gender*

Transgender

National insurance number*

First language*

Ethnicity*

What is your family composition*

Please tick here if this is a joint application

2. Current Address

No fixed address

House name/number and street name*

Postcode*

Building Name

Number

Suffix

Street*

Address Line 2

Address Line 3

Address Line 4

When did you move into this address*

3. Correspondence Address (if different to above)

If you have no permanent address and wish for letters from us to be sent to a friend or relative's home please give their details here

House name/number and street name*

Postcode

Building Name

Number

Suffix

Street

Address Line 2

Address Line 3

Address Line 4

4. Your Contact Details

Please provide a correct phone number AND email address, as we cannot process your application without this information

Home Phone

Work Phone

Mobile Phone*

Email Address*

5. Eligibility Criteria - Immigration Status

The following questions will help in deciding if you might be eligible for social housing. If you are not, you can still obtain housing advice.

Are you living in the UK now?*

Are you a British or Irish Citizen or a Commonwealth citizen with right of abode?*

6. Qualification Criteria

Only applicants who meet the qualification criteria set out below will be included on the housing register.

(a) Age

The following questions will help in deciding if you might be eligible for social housing. If you are not, you can still obtain housing advice.

Are you 18 or over?*

Are you under 18 and accepted as homeless by Havering Council or Social Care Department?*

(b) Residency

Do you currently live in London Borough of Havering?*

Have you lived in the London Borough of Havering continuously for 6 years?*

Are you accepted as homeless but have not lived in the borough of Havering continuously for 6 years?*

Are you accepted as homeless and placed in temporary accommodation by Havering Council outside the borough?*

Are you a care leaver or a resident placed in residential or supported accommodation by Havering Council outside the borough?*

Are you currently serving in the British Armed Forces or Reserve Forces or have served in the last 5 years?*

Are you a bereaved spouse/civil partner of a member of the regular Armed Forces leaving Services family accommodation following the death of a spouse or partner (where the death is wholly or partly attributable to their service)?*

Are you a serving or former member of the Reserve Forces who needs to move because of a serious injury, medical condition or disability, sustained as a result of their service?*

Do you need to move to Havering where there is a genuine intention to take up an offer of work under the 'Right to Move' scheme?*

Do you need to move for exceptional reasons, e.g. need to be near specialist medical or support services which are only available in Havering?*

Do you need to move because your existing council home is too big for your needs?*

Do you need to move from your existing council home due to fire, flood or risk of violence?*

Do you own or part own or have an interest in a property, either in the UK or abroad?*

Have you previously owned a property which you sold in the last 5 years?*

Do you own a property and due to serious medical condition unable to remain in the property and cannot afford alternative accommodation in the private market?*

Do you own a property, are aged over 60 and unable to remain in the property?*

(d) Financial details

Household Savings*

Income of prime applicant per year*

Income of joint applicant per year

Are you a serving or former member of the Armed Forces who received financial compensation due to injury sustained on active service?*

Do you owe the Council any amount of arrears or other debts. This includes:
a) Current rent arrears
b) Former tenant rent arrears
c) Council tax arrears
d) Rechargeable repairs due to damage of property

Please state the amount you owe

(e) Unacceptable behaviour

Have you or a member of your household been involved in the following unacceptable behaviour where formal action has been taken within the last 2 years?

Housing or welfare benefits related fraud?*

Sub-letting a Council or Housing Association property?*

Tenancy obtained by a false statement?*

Threatened or used violence towards council employees, contractors or members?*

Subject to a anti-social behaviour order (ASBO)?*

Racial harassment?

Damage caused to or not looked after your council property?*

Injunction or non molestation order?*