{"id":1713,"date":"2019-04-06T16:01:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T15:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheringtonpc.co.uk\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2019-04-06T16:01:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T15:01:03","slug":"application-process-for-affordable-housing-rental-at-the-high-street-barwood-homes-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sherington-pc.gov.uk\/index.php\/2019\/04\/06\/application-process-for-affordable-housing-rental-at-the-high-street-barwood-homes-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Application Process for Affordable Housing (Rental) at the High Street (Barwood Homes Development)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Within the Barwood Homes development on the High Street there will be 9 houses for rent and 2 for shared ownership. In both cases priority will be given to applicants with a local Sherington connection.\u00a0 This local connection is defined as follows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>Having lived in the Parish of Sherington for three (3) years or more out of the last five (5) years.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>OR<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><em>Working at least sixteen (16) hours per week or more within the boundaries of the Parish of Sherington.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>OR<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><em>Providing personal or physical support to a family member resident in the Parish of Sherington enabling that person to live independently in the community.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The allocation of the affordable rental properties will be managed by Milton Keynes Council.\u00a0 The process is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>1. Applications for housing is based on housing need.<br \/>\n2. The allocation of properties is managed by the Housing Access Team, the manager of the Housing Access team is Dawn Wilson.<br \/>\n3. If an individual or family wish to apply for housing an appointment will be made for an assessment on the Allocation Scheme by an Officer in the Neighbourhood Team.<br \/>\n4. An officer will notify the applicant within a week of the assessment and the outcome of the banding awarded (currently bands 1-5) new allocation scheme will be band A-C and the qualification with local connection will be established.<\/p>\n<p>Detailed information on MKC&#8217;s &#8220;Housing Options and Allocation Scheme&#8221; can be found by downloading the document from their website (the document is on the left hand side):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.milton-keynes.gov.uk\/housing\">Milton Keynes Council &#8211; Housing Web Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the first instance therefore contact needs to be made with the MKC Housing Dept in order to make an appointment for assessment.<\/p>\n<p>MK Council: 01908 691691 and ask for the Housing Department<span class=\"value left\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Please contact the Clerk and Brian Watts with any feedback.<\/p>\n<p>The application process for the shared ownership properties will be published in due course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within the Barwood Homes development on the High Street there will be 9 houses for rent and 2 for shared ownership. In both cases priority will be given to applicants with a local Sherington connection.\u00a0 This local connection is defined as follows: Having lived in the Parish of Sherington for three (3) years or more [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherington-pc.gov.uk\/index.php\/2019\/04\/06\/application-process-for-affordable-housing-rental-at-the-high-street-barwood-homes-development\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Application Process for Affordable Housing (Rental) at the High Street (Barwood Homes Development)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,14,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sherington-pc.gov.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sherington-pc.gov.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sherington-pc.gov.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherington-pc.gov.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherington-pc.gov.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherington-pc.gov.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sherington-pc.gov.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherington-pc.gov.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherington-pc.gov.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}