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The banding system

When you apply to join the register your application is assessed and placed into 1 of 5 bands. Which band you join is decided by an officer following an assessment of your current housing circumstances.

Band one (urgent rehousing)

  • Overriding medical or community care priority
  • Property demolished due to disrepair or compulsory purchase
  • Property deemed unsuitable by the Council’s private sector housing team for habitation due to disrepair, stability or lack of amenities.
  • Statutory overcrowding as defined in the Housing Act 1985, unless caused deliberately.
  • Accepted as homeless and in priority need.
  • High medical priority and substantial disrepair.
  • The applicant is satisfied that a member of the household has medical priority and is a victim of harassment, violence, abuse or at significant harm.
  • Partner Social Landlord tenant who is overcrowded by 2 or more bedrooms.
  • Rehousing required to avoid child being taken into care.
  • Partner Social Landlord tenant who is under occupying a property by 2 or more bedrooms.

Band two (priority rehousing)

  • Accepted as threatened with homelessness (including tied accommodation, agricultural workers, others on service tenancies)
  • Intentionally homeless applicants.
  • Tenants overcrowded by 2 bedrooms or more.(not partner RSL tenant)
  • Other Homeless including non-priority groups and those who have refused a reasonable offer of accommodation in the public or private sector resulting in the Council discharging its homelessness duty
  • Proven harassment, violence, abuse or other proven risk.
  • High medical or community care priority.
  • Lacking one or more – internal toilet, bathroom or kitchen facilities.
  • Partner Social landlord tenant overcrowded by one bedroom.
  • Medium medical and disrepair.
  • Sharing facilities (kitchen, bathroom) and insufficient bedspace for household.
  • Repairs notice
  • Partner social landlord tenant under occupying by one bedroom.
  • Social landlord tenants in sheltered accommodation who want to move to another sheltered scheme.
  • Separated family due to no suitable accommodation.
  • Need to move on social or welfare grounds, i.e., specialist medical treatment, children leaving care, education/training

Band three (in need of rehousing)

  • Medium or community care medical priority.
  • Tenant overcrowded by one bedroom (not partner RSL tenant)
  • Low medical priority and disrepair.
  • Low disrepair.
  • Shared facilities (kitchen/bathroom) and sufficient bedspace for household.
  • Child under 7 years old living on a 2nd floor or above.

Band four

  • Generally their current accommodation is of the right size and has all facilities.
  • Low medical priority.
  • Reciprocal arrangements with other local authority
  • Child under 7 years old living in first floor or ground floor flat/maisonette.

Band five

  • Applicants who do not have a local connection with Peterborough unless they need to move on social and welfare grounds.
  • Applicants with sufficient resources to purchase a property (outright or by way of a mortgage) or who can afford to rent privately
  • Owner occupiers who:
  1. are adequately housed, or
  2. have sufficient resources to finance the purchase of a suitable property (outright or by way of a mortgage)or
  3. have sufficient resources to rent privately and in the circumstances it would be reasonable for them to do so, or own or rent a property elsewhere which it would be reasonable for them to occupy.