Housing and Homelessness Summary Year end 2020-21
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The Housing Register
Colchester holds a housing register of people interested in Council or Registered Provider homes. Households eligible to join the register are assessed according to need and ‘banded’ as to their priority for rehousing. There are five bands (Bands A - E), depending on the assessed level of housing need.
Not everyone on the housing register will be offered a property. Last year (April 2020 – March 2021) there were only 474 lets of affordable housing compared to 3,000 households on the register.
Households on the register according to band
Banding | Number of households on the register |
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A | 84 |
B | 719 |
C | 847 |
D | 184 |
E | 1175 |
Total | 3009 |
Gateway to Homechoice, 31 March 2021
Households on the register according to number of bedrooms required
Number of bedrooms required | Number of households on the register |
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One | 921 |
Two | 1202 |
Three | 731 |
Four or more | 155 |
Total | 3009 |
Gateway to Homechoice, 31 March 2021
Lettings of affordable housing
Affordable housing includes both Council owned and Registered Provider homes. The table below shows the number of properties let during 2020 – 2021.
Landlord | Number of homes let April 2020 - March 2021 |
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Colchester Borough Council | 313 |
Registered Providers | 160 |
Colchester Borough Homes | 1 |
Total | 474 |
Source: Gateway to Homechoice
Registered Providers of social housing are independent societies, bodies of trustees or companies established for the purpose of providing low-cost social housing for people in housing need on a non-profit-making basis. They are also known as ‘housing associations’.
The table below shows the total number of Colchester applicants who were housed via Gateway to Homechoice. The total is different to the that in the table above as some of the direct and transfer applicants were housed outside Colchester.
Applicant type | Number of applicants housed April 2020 - March 2021 |
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Direct | 269 |
Transfer | 159 |
Homeless | 99 |
Total | 523 |
Source: Gateway to Homechoice
Please note this does not include households who have moved through mutual exchange. This is where an existing Council or Registered Provider tenant ‘swaps’ their home with another tenant.
Page last reviewed: 27 May 2021