Housing
The City Council is involved with and has a wide range of responsibilities for Housing.
This section of the website covers a variety of areas related to housing, including, council housing, applying for housing, home improvements, grants, refuse and recycling, and much more. There is also an area packed with useful information regarding Council Tenancies including an electronic copy of the Tenants Handbook.
Here you will also find information on applying for housing using Hampshire Home Choice, the new choice based lettings system that will be live in Spring 2009.
Important Notice
Landlord Services wish to issue a formal apology to all our tenants following the leaflet that was sent to tenants with their quarterly rent statement. The leaflet was issued in error and as such, we sincerely apologise for the distress and upset caused to those tenants, who pay their rent in accordance with their tenancy conditions. Winchester City Council continues to be one of the best performing landlords in the area for collection of rent and our quick response when arrears increase is essential to maintain our good performance. The arrears leaflet was aimed at providing advice and assistance to those tenants in rent arrears and should not have been sent to the high proportion of good payers. We accept that this mistake does not meet the high standard of customer care that we aim to meet all of the time and we will ensure that this does not happen again. A further apology will also be issued to all our customers in our next edition of On The House. Richard Botham (Head of Landlord Services) |
Latest Updates:
Knowle Village Phase 3, New Agreed Addresses
New Addresses have been agreed in Wickham Ward as below.
10/03/2010
Grants/Loans
15/02/2010
Safety in the Home
Information about the Homecheck schemes and home safety in general
12/02/2010
In this section:
Older Persons Action Plan 2008/9 - 2012/13
The Communities and Local Government, Lifetime Homes, Lifetime Neighbourhoods setsout a national strategy for housing in an ageing society. This action plan takes forward the themes from the national agenda and places these within the context of the Winchester District.
04/08/2009
Housing Development Viability Study 2008
In 2008 the Council completed a study that examines the impact of affordable housing policies on the viability of housing development.
03/08/2009
Winchester District Housing Strategy 2008/9- 2012/13
The Housing Strategy is the overarching strategy which sets out the vision and priorities of the City Council and Winchester Housing Board.
27/10/2008
Housing Strategy 2004-07
Winchester’s Housing Strategy is an action-oriented plan with a clear vision and commitment to realising people’s aspirations to be well housed.
06/06/2006
Black and Minority Ethnic Strategy 2005-2008
This strategy presents the aims of the housing service in meeting the needs of its culturally diverse community, and sets out our objectives and targets for the next three years to help us deliver to those aims.
28/09/2006
Private Sector Housing Strategy
The Private Sector Housing Renewal Strategy brings together the Council's key private sector housing policies and forms one of the major contributors to the overarching Housing Strategy.
25/04/2006
