People applying for social housing will only have to register their interest once as part of a series of changes to the system.
Instead of individually applying to Caerphilly County Borough Council and several housing associations, from December this year there will be a single housing waiting list.
The new Common Housing Register will be managed by Caerphilly County Borough Council.
All seven housing associations with homes in the county borough will close their individual lists.
Residents who have current housing applications and who want to remain on the list will be transferred across to the new list in December.
However, under new rules governing the new list, some current applicants may need to submit further information.
Caerphilly Council is currently contacting all applicants by post, requesting that a short form is completed to provide the additional information needed to assess their application and to transfer them across to the new Common Housing Register.
Cllr David Poole, Deputy Leader of Caerphilly County Borough Council and Cabinet Member for Housing, said: “The Common Housing Register will make it much easier for people to apply for social housing in Caerphilly county borough, as applicants will only need to make one application in the future instead of applying separately to the council and each housing association.
“It is important that those who are already on the housing register complete and return the form sent out to them, as failing to do so may result in not being transferred to the new register and thus not considered for rehousing.”
I must admit, I thought this was already the case. I am surprised it has taken this long to merge the lists. It is simply a move to greater efficiency. There still needs to be changes to only put British citizens on the list – that’s a UK-wide move though.
It’s often quoted by local authorities that non indigenous peoples do not have preference on local housing lists as is the widespread “rumour”. Accommodation is given out on a “needs” priority but what isn’t said is that someone who has just arrived in the country and has nowhere to live has more “need” than others. This propels them to the top of the list. Wether a person agrees with the notion that these peoples “need” is greater or not is not the point. It’s a lie by omission which allows local authorities to prioritise new arrivals and say that they aren’t doing so in the very same breath.
There is a MAJOR influence on catering for the housing needs of WELSH citizens, whilst the housing of imigrants into Wales and Caerphilly are provided for by British Statute and clearly to the detriment of, in this case, Caerphilly Citizens. This influence is the provision made by Housing Associations, organisations given many many millions of pounds of Welsh Government Money to provide social housing. But this provision is effected by the housing associations spending these grants from the Welsh Assembly on other projects other than housing, for instance, Caerphilly Based United Welsh Housing Assocaition
bought the old Caerphilly Miners Hospital Site for housing, they in turn allowed, in partnership, the building of the properties by the Privately owned Lovell Partnership, but, they also gave huge financial advantages to a small group of people to preserve The Beeches house in the Hospitsl Ground, this diversion of money, meant for housing, is now lost, and the million pounds or so being required to be spent on the Beeches House project, plus an additional £650,000 in futher grant money to the project group from the Welsh Assembly is money it appears to me, to be lost by those charged with providing housing, because that is what they are suposed to do with tax payers money, is not being done, someone needs to ensure due diligence over the above process, the way this money is being spent and the value to the tax payer of that usage, it seems to me that this money, intended by The Welsh Assembly for the provision of homes for Welsh Citizens, is NOT being used for that purpose, and that is Why `John` is not being assisted and why he has to continue to suffer the effects of ill health, serious life threatening respitory problems, alone each night in a car. THIS IS A CIVIC CAERPHILLY DISGRACE,
Hi all . Im local to caerphilly been here 37 years born and bread and im currently HOMELESS!! I suffer from asthma so the cold weather is a knightmare when your sleeping in a car on a cold night!! Ive applied for council housing!! But yet im not a priority!!!! Ive witnessed the council offering homes to people who cant even speak ENGLISH!! but yet they still have more priority than myself whos WELSH!! So instead of making 1 list the COUNCIL should be concentrating on its own people who really need somewhere to live!! Filling in less forms isnt as important as helping locals have a home
4 “Refugee” families were housed in the Caerphilly basin in private property ahead of you and we all paid for it.