Kings Hill phase 5 local letting plan

All homes will be advertised by MHS online and prioritisation will be informed by government policy and local connection to TMBC.

There are two considerations that will inform the prioritisation of households, in the following order:

Help to Buy/government priority

Households awarded priority for Help to Buy under any relevant government policy or guidance and capital funding criteria in place at the time of sale/re-sale (for example serving military personnel and former members of the British Armed Forces honourably discharged in the last two years and households who are existing rented social housing residents (housing association and local authority)).

Local connection

Priority will be given to households with a local connection to Kings Hill ward and East Malling, West Malling and Offham ward.

Secondary priority will then be given to households with a local connection to the rest of the Borough of Tonbridge and Malling.

Local connection criteria will be in line with the definition of local connection in the Council's relevant affordable home ownership policy or in the absence of such policy as follows:

For Shared Ownership sales you have a local connection if you:

• currently live in the borough and have lived here for at least the last 12 months or 3 of the last 5 years; or
• are permanently employed (full time or part time) in the borough, or need to move into our borough in order to take up an offer of permanent employment; or
• have close family members (parent, step-parents, brothers/sisters including step siblings, adult children (aged over 18) and grandparents who currently live in the borough and have lived here for at least the last five years.

If there are no interested eligible buyers with a local connection, homes may then be sold to any household eligible for Shared Ownership in line with such Government criteria as may be in place at the time of sale/re-sale.

At the point of first sale, a period of three months will be made for prioritisation of households with a local connection to TMBC; three months will be from the point the home/s are actively marketed and available to view/a show home available. At first sale the show home may be a similar property within the development if one isn't available in the block where the homes are to be provided.

For re-sales, priority will be given to any households with a local connection within the marketing period alongside the Help to Buy criteria for any interested buyers.