{"id":69,"date":"2016-12-01T20:46:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T20:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"\/?page_id=69"},"modified":"2021-07-21T12:56:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T11:56:11","slug":"the-housing-register","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/?page_id=69","title":{"rendered":"The Homeseekers Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Body\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homeseekerplus.co.uk\/choice\/login.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"C-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-122 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/eastingtonclt.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/homeseeker1.jpg\" alt=\"homeseeker1\" width=\"320\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/homeseeker1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/homeseeker1-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span class=\"C-1\">Because Affordable Homes are built on \u2018exception sites\u2019, they classed in with \u2018social housing\u2019 in general &#8211; this means that \u00a0applicants will need to be on the \u00a0\u2018Homeseeker Plus\u2019 \u00a0register. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The Homeseeker Plus\u00a0Partnership is a group of councils and housing providers who work together to provide homes across Gloucestershire &amp; West Oxfordshire.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span class=\"C-1\">Homeseeker Policy states:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span class=\"C-1\">&#8220;Affordable Rent housing is for <span class=\"C-5\">eligible households whose needs are not met by the market. Eligibility is determined with regard to local incomes and local house prices<\/span><span class=\"C-3\">.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span class=\"C-1\">In this area, you could have a household income of up to \u00a360,000. \u00a0\u00a0You do not have to have any special social needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span class=\"C-1\">It costs you nothing to apply and ECLT would urge anyone who thinks they might be eligible, to apply without delay. \u00a0You can do this here: \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"text-align: center;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homeseekerplus.co.uk\/choice\/login.aspx\">www.homeseekerplus.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Be sure to state your local connection<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The Register works through an online\u00a0a bidding system. \u00a0When you register you will be advised of your eligibility and given a gold, silver or bronze classification &#8211; according to need. \u00a0Once registered you will be able to log in, on a regular basis, to\u00a0see if there are any available homes for which \u00a0you might apply \u00a0(&#8216;bid&#8217;) .<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: left;\">ECLT homes will be available for\u00a0people with an Eastington Local Connection, <strong>First<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Resident of Eastington Parish (for 3 continuous years during the last 5 years)<\/li>\n<li>Person with local family connections, living elsewhere, wishing to return to Eastington (parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren or siblings)<\/li>\n<li>Person living or working in the parish for 6 out of the last 12 months. (This is a lower priority than the first two conditions above).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Only if \u00a0more than one <strong>local<\/strong> person bids\u00a0for\u00a0a particular home will the gold\/solver\/bronze category be taken into account, followed by the length of time on the register.<\/p>\n<p>You will only see and be able to bid on homes of the type for which you are eligible, based on the number of bedrooms. \u00a0A single person \u00a0or a couple qualify for one bedroom; \u00a0children may then be accommodated two to a room, but children over 10\u00a0years may not share with a child of the opposite sex. \u00a0Children 16 or over \u00a0and additional adults are eligible for a bedroom of their own.<\/p>\n<p>After a successful bid, the Housing Association (Aster Homes for Fullers Close or Two Rivers for Project Two) will be advised, and will handle the process of verifying the local connection and completing the actual letting. \u00a0ECLT members will not be directly involved in any of this, but will monitor the process to ensure that the rules are being followed correctly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0If no-one with an Eastington Local Connection applies for\u00a0a vacant home, it will be offered to people in our neighbouring parishes (e.g. Whitminster, Leonard Stanley etc) before going on the general Stroud District vacancy list. \u00a0Similarly, any homes that are built under CLT-type schemes in our neighbouring parishes \u00a0will \u00a0(and do) extend the same privilege to Eastington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because Affordable Homes are built on \u2018exception sites\u2019, they classed in with \u2018social housing\u2019 in general &#8211; this means that \u00a0applicants will need to be on the \u00a0\u2018Homeseeker Plus\u2019 \u00a0register. \u00a0\u00a0 The Homeseeker Plus\u00a0Partnership is a group of councils and <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/?page_id=69\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  The Homeseekers Register<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2065,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-69","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2796,"href":"https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions\/2796"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eclt.eastington.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}