Finding a home: a choice based lettings service from Tamworth Borough Council

Welcome to the website of the choice based lettings service from Tamworth Borough Council - Finding a Home. This is a new way of finding a home in Tamworth for people applying for social housing, which enables greater choice to decide where you want to live and when you want to move.

If you are are not on the housing register, you can apply anytime by filling in a form, available from us directly (see contact us) and also by download through the main Tamworth Borough Council website .

Please note:

Our advertised properties still may be occupied; therefore we kindly ask that you do not disturb the existing tenant.

Feature Property

Carlcroft, Stonydelph, B77 4DL
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What is choice based lettings?

Choice based lettings means local authorities advertise their housing vacancies to all applicants. Applicants are given the opportunity to apply (or bid) for advertised properties which are suitable for their needs. The applicant with the highest priority under the scheme becomes the successful applicant. Priority is given to those with more urgent housing needs, and then in order of waiting time. For example, where applicants with the same priority have bid for the same property, the applicant who has been waiting the longest should be allocated the property.

How does it work?

You can view all properties available for letting in several ways:

here online on our website at www.findingahometamworth.co.uk every Tuesday at midnight for a period of one week
on posters advertised at Tamworth Borough Council offices (Marmion house) every Wednesday
through your support worker or agency

Each property advert tells you where the property is, how many bedrooms there are, if its suitable for pets, how much the rent is, who is eligible to bid and photographs.

Our properties are advertised weekly.

You can bid for up to 3 properties per week that you are eligible for that interest you. You can place your bid at anytime during the bidding cycle. You do not need to place a bid as soon as the cycle opens: the property is allocated to the applicant in the highest housing need, not to the applicant who has placed their bid first.

Nominations

Tamworth Borough Council is working to expand choice to our customers through our Finding a Home choice based lettings service. We are currently setting up nominations agreements with other social landlords, such as Waterloo Housing Association.

Nominations mean that we are given the rights to advertise certain properties that belong to another landlord. Our housing applicants can then place bids on these properties, and the landlord lets to the successful applicant.

Please note, the lettings criteria for other landlords is often different from that of Tamworth Borough Council’s: please make sure you read and understand who is able to bid on each nomination property before you make your bid.

You will now see on the property advert information on the landlord of the property, and also the lettings criteria specific to that landlord.

For more information on nominations, click here