Housing Needs Register information

Band A

Applicants with an Urgent Need to Move

  • Have been assessed as having Urgent Medical Priority or as having exceptional social circumstances that are seriously affected by current housing and would be helped with a change of housing. This includes applicants in immediate danger. 
  • A WHBC tenant who needs to move because his/her home is about to be demolished or redeveloped (subject to time limit).
  • A WHBC or RP tenant of a Welwyn Hatfield property with three or more bedrooms who is under occupying the property and will be giving up two or more bedrooms by moving.
  • A successor to a WHBC tenancy who is required to move, because the property is not suitable.
  • Succession. This applies to where we require successors to WHBC tenancies to move, and it is subject to a time limit. It also applies where there has been a previous succession but the Exceptional Circumstances Panel has agreed to make an offer of accommodation. 
  • Occupying a property subject to a compulsory purchase order and/ or WHBC has a statutory duty to move them.
  • Be statutorily overcrowded.