Have your say on council housing in Stevenage

Have your say on council housing in Stevenage

In the past, our decisions about who should be eligible for a council home have been greatly influenced by government legislation and guidance.

New guidance has now been published that gives us much more flexibility to decide who should be able to join our housing register and who we prioritise for housing.

We are in the process of reviewing our existing housing allocations scheme and would like to hear your views on some of the issues arising from this. The following survey is designed to gather residents' opinions on key issues arising from the housing allocations review.

We suggest you look at our factsheet "Have your say on council housing" before you complete the survey. You can download a copy of the factsheet from www.stevenage.gov.uk/council-housing-survey. Paper copies of this survey and the factsheet are available from the Customer Service Centre Daneshill House or your local community centre.

We also have the flexibility to decide what type of tenancy we offer in the future. We could decide to offer new tenants fixed term tenancies as well as the traditional lifetime tenancy that we currently use.

We must publish a Tenancy Strategy and a Tenancy Policy that states what type of tenancy we will offer and under what conditions and we would like to take the opportunity, using this survey to find out your views. You can read about fixed term tenancies in the factsheet.

The deadline for completing the survey is Friday, 12th October 2012.