Strategic Housing Market Assessment - North Devon District Council

SHMA: Torridge and North Devon Update
• a high housing defect;
• ready for move on from supported accommodation within Devon; and
• a Social need or to support the delivery of another service.
Medium Housing Need (Band C)
The following are examples of the type of situations that would qualify:
• overcrowded lacking 1 bedroom;
• under-occupying by 1 bedroom;
• children under 8 years old living on or above the third floor; and
• moves for work.
Low Housing Need (Band D)
The following are examples of the type of situations that would qualify:
• a non-statutory homeless household;
• applicants who are rough sleeping, have no fixed abode or are ‘sofa
surfing’;
• low health/ wellbeing need;
• shared facilities (for example toilet, bath, shower or kitchen);
• staying access to children outside of the travel to work area of each Devon
local authority;
• under notice to quit;
• households with a housing need but no local connection to Devon; and
• households who have been assessed as having deliberately worsened
their circumstances
No Housing Need (E)
This will normally include the following:
• applicants who live in a property that is adequate to meet their housing
need in terms of property type, size and facilities; and
• applicants who do not meet the housing need criteria within any of the
other bands (Emergency, High, Medium or Low housing need).
Full details of the scheme can be found at:
http://www.devonhomechoice.com/Data/Pub/StreamTemp/uvorzb2u.pdf
The need for affordable housing
4.3 This section opens with a profile of the total number of applicants registered
for social housing by Priority Band. It should be noted that trend data is not
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