Shortlisting
Orbit’s Lettings team will contact households who have placed a bid for a property to check and verify if they meet any of the criteria outlined in this plan and assign priority in the order set out on the pervious page, in consultation with the Council’s Housing Solutions team.
This may be before the end of the bidding cycle to speed up the process, but it must be made clear to households that the contact is to check information and it is not an offer of housing.
In the event of two or more applicants sharing top priority in line with the criteria in this lettings plan, housing register application date will be used to determine priority.
If there are more homes available than households on the shortlist who meet the prioritisation criteria or no households meet the criteria, homes will be allocated on banding and application date order.