Tenancy policy

Misuse of Housing Stock and the Allocations Scheme

The Council is committed to preventing the misuse of our housing stock and allocations system, to ensure our homes go to those most in need. Using robust, effective, and timely housing management processes, we will tackle unlawful subletting and tenancy misuse promptly and effectively.

Our Tenancy Fraud Policy, is being incorporated into Council’s overarching Fraud Policy. The purpose of a Fraud Policy in the context of Council housing is for:

• raising awareness of social housing fraud and its impact on the housing waiting list and communities.
• maximising the availability of Council properties by seeking to recover unlawfully rented and unoccupied homes.
• setting out a zero-tolerance approach to tenancy fraud, taking swift enforcement action and prosecuting those proven to have committed tenancy fraud, where appropriate.