Information Required
The application forms ask you to provide personal information in confidence. Inaccurate information can lead to confusion and disappointment, and false information will lead to your application being cancelled.
Before any offer of accommodation can be made, the Council will need to check the details of your application. It is likely this will take place during a home visit, when you may be asked to provide information such as:
- Proof you live at your address, for example your rent book, driving licence, benefits payment book or bank statement
- Birth certificates for your family
- Proof of pregnancy for women who are pregnant, for example confirmation of your expected date of delivery from your doctor
- Written proof that you no longer have a legal or financial interest in a property (if you previously owned a property)
- Proof of any financial settlement you received from the sale of any property you owned
- Legal proof (if you are divorced or separated), for example a Residency Order, confirming that your children will live with you as their principal home before being accepted for family accommodation.
Contact agreements giving access for weekend or overnight visits will not qualify for family accommodation.
If you knowingly give false information or withhold information relevant to your application, you may be prosecuted.
The Council also reserves the right to remove an applicant from the Housing Register or to take action to repossess any tenancy obtained by the provision of false information, or the withholding of relevant information by the applicant, tenant, or a person acting on the tenant’s instigation.
If you are unable to verify the information you have provided in your application, it will not be possible to proceed with an offer of accommodation.
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