We use a point system as a guide when allocating housing.  The points system reflects the sort of situations mentioned in the legislation.

• Families with dependent children.
• Households consisting of or including someone with a particular need for settled accommodation on medical or welfare grounds.
• Households whose social or economic circumstances are such that they have difficulty in securing settled accommodation.
• Households consisting of or including someone who is expecting a child.
• Those occupying unsanitary or overcrowded housing or other unsatisfactory housing conditions.
• People who are homeless, living in temporary accommodation or occupying a home on insecure terms.
• People to whom the local authority owe a duty under the following homelessness legislation (i.e. people leaving prison or young people leaving care).

Please remember that having your name on the housing register is not a guarantee that you will eventually be offered a property.

Once your application has been accepted on to our housing register, it is awarded a certain number of points to reflect the conditions in which you live.

Points are given for such factors as medical conditions, overcrowding and lack of modern facilities.  The total points score of each applicant is then used as a guide in allocating properties.

Deferred Points

There will be some situations where an applicant has enough points to be offered a secure tenancy but this may not occur because of the reasons shown below.  In the first five of the cases mentioned below, the points will be deferred for a period of 12 months.

• Homeless applicants found to be intentionally homeless. 
• Applicants refusing an offer of accommodation and that refusal being seen to be unreasonable including people who have been offered accommodation to discharge the Council's duty to them as homeless. 
• Where enquiries are being made into a homeless application. 
• Applicants who put themselves in a worse position than needed in order to gain more points. 
• Applicants with a former tenant or current debt to the Council would not normally be re-housed until the debt is cleared therefore points will be deferred until then.  However, each case will be judged individually.

The Housing Application Form can be obtained from this page: Housing Allocations

Contact Details

Housing Services
South Derbyshire District Council
Civic Offices
Civic Way
Swadlincote
Derbyshire
DE11 0AH

Tel: 01283 595953 or 595778
Fax: 01283 595852
Minicom:  01283 595849
Online: online enquiry form
Email: housing@south-derbys.gov.uk

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