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Homemove magazine - important changes

Very few Homemove Magazines are being collected from Council Offices and Libraries, because of lack of demand. To save money and waste we will stop printing the magazines for collection from 16 December 2011 in the following areas:

  • Adur
  • Arun
  • Brighton & Hove
  • Chichester
  • Hastings
  • Lewes
  • Rother
  • Wealden
  • Worthing

You will still be able to go to your local council office to view the properties either on a computer or as a printed list, but you won’t be able to pick up a magazine to take home with you.

You can also look at the magazine on the 'Home' page of this website as before.

We want to make sure that everyone can view vacant properties once the magazine is withdrawn so please contact your local office if you feel you or someone you support will have difficulties. You may be able to have a list of properties sent to you in the post for free.

Need Help or Support?

Contact details for your local council or landlord are available on the 'Contact Us' page of this website.

We welcome your views on any aspect of this change.

 

Affordable Rented Properties

The Government has introduced a new and more flexible form of social housing, known as Affordable Rent, which will be offered by housing associations on some of the properties advertised in the Homemove magazine. These properties will be advertised with rents set at no more than 80% of the local market rent. Tenants who bid and are successful on these types of properties will be offered a flexible tenancy which will last for a minimum of five years.

Please make sure you look carefully at the advert before you bid to see what type of tenancy is being offered. If you have any questions about a property you should contact the landlord of the property directly.

Click here for additional information about how Affordable Rent properties are let in Mid Sussex.


Affinity Sutton

Starter Tenancies

Affinity Sutton will offer all new tenants a Starter Tenancy for 12 months. During this time extra support is given and if the tenancy is conducted satisfactorily it will be converted to a permanent Assured Tenancy.


Brighton & Hove City Council

Brighton & Hove's local lettings policy for Sheltered Housing schemes

In line with Brighton and Hove’s Local Lettings Plan for Sheltered schemes, first priority to move will be given to existing tenants within the same scheme; and second priority will be given to existing tenants who are living in another Brighton and Hove Sheltered scheme.

If you would like to discuss this or would like to speak to someone about Sheltered Housing in the city please call the Sheltered Housing Team on 01273 293255.

 

Priority for Working Households and those making a Positive Contribution to the City

To ensure that Brighton & Hove City Council promotes a positive contribution to the community up to 50% of all permanent social housing stock will be advertised with a priority being given to those who can show that the ingoing primary tenant(s) is/are working or is making a positive contribution to Brighton & Hove City. To ensure that the policy helps those on low incomes the following income caps apply:

For those needing a 2 or more bedroom property an income cap of £35,000 pa gross,
For households needing studio or 1 bedroom property an income cap of £17,000 pa gross income.

Working Households
For the purposes of this Allocations Scheme employment is described as having

  • permanent contract,
  • working as a temporary member of staff or
  • being self-employed.
Applicants will only qualify if the worker:
  • has been employed for 9 out of the last 12 months,
  • is currently in employment and
  • is working for a minimum of 16 hours per week.
Verification will be sought at point of application as well as point of offer under the same terms. Applicants must provide payslips, P60, bank statements or a verifying letter on headed paper in order to qualify (we may also contact employers directly for confirmation of employment) and any other relevant information we may need.

Volunteers

  • Volunteering for a continuous period of at least 6 months up to the point of application and the same at point of offer.
  • Volunteering must be for a not-for profit organisation or a charity and must be for a minimum of 32 hours per month.
  • Letter from Manager responsible for Volunteers confirming applicant’s involvement in a minimum of 32 hours per month of voluntary work in the requested area for over 6 months.
  • The Council reserves the right to refuse that volunteering is relevant for the Policy where it is in variance with Council policy and procedure.
Full Time Carers
  • If the prime applicant(s) provide care in an area of the City, the priority may be applied for in the area in which they provide care.
  • Carers must have been providing for a continuous period of at least 6 months up to the point of application and the same at point of offer.
  • Proof that full time care is required (this will be in the form of a care assessment from Adult Social Care or Children and Young Persons Trust in Brighton & Hove City Council)
  • A copy of the carers allowance that is being paid and proof of receipt of this.
Work & positive contribution and disability
Anyone with a proven chronic long term disability who works or volunteers (irrespective of hours

Email: homemove@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Phone: 01273 293 130
When contacting the Homemove Team please make sure they have your up-to-date landline, work and mobile phone numbers.

 

For information on the Homemove Service Review Group for Brighton & Hove applicants please click on the link below.

homemove service review group

 

Chichester District Council

Click here for part rent / part buy opportunities in Chichester


Hyde Martlet

Open morning at Sheltered Housing scheme The Orchards, Moulsecoomb Way, Brighton. Come between 10am – 12pm on Wednesday 8 February 2012 to have a look around the scheme and view inside one of the flats. If you would like further information please contact Housing Officer Natasha Mercer on 01273 766013.


Rother

Click here for information about Shared Ownership Apartments in Rother.


Housing and Care options for older people in East Sussex

Click here for a guide to services in East Sussex that can help older people live more comfortably or independently at home, and the options available to those who decide to move in later life. It is written for older people who rent their current homes as well as those who are owner-occupiers, regardless
of their income or savings.