Completing your Application Form for a Council or Housing Association Home

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1A. Your Details
Please provide your name and present address. Joint applicants will need to decide who to name as the lead applicant and complete their details in Section 1A.

1B. Household Details
This section is for the Joint Applicant and/or any other household members. Please provide the details of each person that you want to live with you and proof of ID.

Citizenship and immigration status

To help us decide your eligibility for rehousing, please provide the following documents for each member of your household.  

Photocopies will be accepted for postal and on-line applications but we will need to see the original documents at a later date:

• Passport (the page from your passport with your photograph
  and details).
• Any letters or permit from the UK Border Agency concerning immigration status.
• Any other documents.

1C. Why are you applying for housing?
Please tick all the relevant boxes (you can tick more than one box).

1D. Why are you applying for housing? Other information?
Please complete this section if you have been asked to leave your home.

2A. Put your current address first and then list all addresses you have lived at during the last five years including those outside the UK.
Say whether you were a council or housing association tenant, a home owner, renting privately, a lodger or living with parents (continue on a separate page if necessary).

Also if you have ever been a council or housing association tenant please provide the address, the dates that you lived there, the name of the association and your reason for leaving.

3A. Ownership of Property
Please provide details of any properties you or the joint applicant owns or have owned in the past. This includes property abroad.

3B. Earned Income
Please complete this section if anyone in your household is working, including if anyone is self employed.

3C. Who is your employer and those of other household members?
If you have answered YES to Section 3B please provide employment details for everyone in your household who is working.

3D. Benefits
If anyone in your household is claiming benefits please provide the details in this section.

3E. Savings/Investments
This section is for any other savings, investments or other source of income.

4A. Rent/Mortgage
Please say how much your rent or mortgage is and whether you pay weekly or monthly.

4B. Arrears
Please say if you have any rent arrears or mortgage arrears and how much they are.

5A. Relatives
Please provide the details of any relatives living in the Kingston Borough. If you are applying as a homeless household this information may determine whether you have a local connection.

5B. Children’s Education
Please provide the details of your children’s school or college.

5C. Disability/Health Problems
You may wish to tell us about any medical condition experienced by you or any member of your household that is affected by your housing. Assessments will only be carried out for anyone included as part of your housing application. Because someone is seriously ill it does not necessarily mean that the medical priority will be awarded. It will depend on whether the medical problem is made worse by your housing circumstances, and the degree to which this is happening.

5D. Support
Please provide details of any support or help that you are receiving. If you give us permission to contact the professionals that are providing you with help or support this may help us to assess your housing need.

5E. Areas to Live
Please indicate the types of properties and areas you want to be considered for. We require this information in case we need to make you a direct offer of accommodation or if you would like bids placed automatically for you. Due to the shortage of certain types of property we cannot guarantee to rehouse you in your chosen type of property or area and if you are very limited in your choice of properties or areas, it may be very difficult to rehouse you.

5F. Pets
Many of the properties owned by members of the Kingston Housing Partnership have policies relating to pet ownership. We do not allow cats or dogs in any properties which do not have sole use of, and direct access, to a garden.

Refusing a suitable property because you have a cat or dog will not be accepted as reasonable grounds for refusal.

6A. Type of Home
Please provide details of the type of home that you live in now.

6B. Room details

• Please give details of all rooms used by the people included in your application. Please provide length and width measurements in metres as this will help us to assess your housing need. Please leave blank any rooms that you do not have.

• Please tell us what floor level or levels your housing is on.

• Please indicate whether there is a lift.

6C. Home Ownership
Please say if you would like to receive any information about low cost Home Ownership Schemes.

6D. Extra Information
This section is for you to tell us about anything that you feel is relevant to your housing situation that you have not already told us about elsewhere on your form.

This question is to ensure that properties are not being allocated unfairly because of family links with employees of The Kingston Housing Partnership.

The Kingston Housing Partnership is strongly committed to promoting equal opportunities. As part of our policy we ask you for equality information at the time you apply for housing.

This information is only used for monitoring purposes in order to make sure that we are providing services fairly to all sections of the community and does not affect your application in any way.

If your first language is not English and you need help in understanding any letters or documents, we can make arrangements for an interpreter or translation.

This section is to alert you to the fact that it is a criminal offence to give false information to gain a tenancy. Please make sure that you have filled in all sections of the form and signed it before returning it to us. We cannot accept unsigned application forms and if you do not fully complete the form the assessment of your application will be delayed. If you are applying for a joint tenancy both partners must sign the form.