Council housing priority bands

You are classed as band A priority if:

• you have been assessed as having an Urgent Medical Priority that is seriously affected by your current housing and would be helped with a change of housing
• you have exceptional social circumstances that are seriously affected by your current housing and would be helped with a change of housing (including if you are in immediate danger)
• your are a council tenant who needs to move because your home is about to be demolished or redeveloped (subject to time limit)
• you are a council (or Registered Provider) tenant with three or more bedrooms (which you don't occupy) and you will free up two or more bedrooms by moving
• you have inherited your council home (successor to a council tenancy) and need to move (subject to time limit) because the property is not suitable
• you have inherited your council home (successor to a council tenancy) but the Senior Officer Panel has agreed to make you an offer of accommodation
• you are in a property subject to a compulsory purchase order we have a statutory duty to move you
• you are living in a property classed as  statutorily overcrowded.