Supplementary A - London Borough of Hillingdon

TENANTS HOME-SEEKERS DEFINING FEATURES OF APPLICANT
Band A
Time-
Limited
Top/
Emergency
Priority
Rating (time
limit is at
registering
partner’s
discretion)
Homeless
households owed
the main duty &
placed in temporary
accommodation
1. Landlord wants property back AND the council cannot find alternative suitable
temporary accommodation OR
2. Property is not suitable to meet applicant’s or a member of the applicant’s
household’s needs AND the only prospect of meeting them is in permanent
accommodation. (E.g. where they have obtained employment and are experiencing
severe financial hardship, medical or disability reasons, harassment, violence or
disrepair).
Statutory Duty Statutory Duty Closing Order issued (i.e. Property unfit for human habitation as advised by Environmental
Health where there is no alternative measure to render the property fit) OR similar duty
where emergency re-housing is essential e.g. CPO to enable site clearance for a roadwidening
scheme.
Enable
fostering/
adoption
Release
adapted
property
Enable fostering/
adoption
Where agreement has been reached to provide permanent accommodation on
recommendation by Social Services.
This is used once a specific child and parent arrangement is unable to commence because
of the housing situation, not in the general principle or intention of fostering or adoption.
Tenant does not require walk-in shower &/or wheelchair accessible features.
Defined as no longer meeting Mobility level 1 (DSL1) whereby a member of a household
uses a wheelchair indoors and outdoors all the time.
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