Applying for Housing

The City Council has changed the way in which it allocates social housing to anyone applying for housing or applying to transfer: Hampshire Home Choice is the new choice based lettings system that has been in operation since 22 April 2009.

Click here for more information on Hampshire Home Choice or click here to apply for housing

Accommodation for Rent - Hampshire Home Choice
Hampshire Home Choice is a partnership between Winchester City Council, East Hampshire District Council and Havant borough Council, enabling you to move across any of those three areas. Together we maintain a Joint Housing Register of households requiring acommodation in any of the three areas. This enables households, through a single application, to be considered for a much wider variety of accommodation and helps all the parties make best use of their housing stock. If you would like to find out more about Hampshire Home Choice please select the link on the left.

Homeswapper - Want to exchange?
Winchester City Council now subscribes to the national "Homeswapper" website that allows you to advertise your property and search for others looking to exchange. Take a look at the website www.homeswapper.co.uk. Registration and advertising is free to Council tenants.

The Mutual Exchange list will move across to "Homswapper" in the next few months and we will write to everyone on the list explaining the changes. The list will still be available at our Customer Service Centre for people who do not have internet access.

Low Cost Home Ownership

• Properties to Part Buy
  The City Council also works with local housing providers to develop various Low Cost Home Ownership schemes. The aim of these is to help households onto the housing ladder through shared equity or part rent part by schemes which the Council cannot directly provide itself.

• Assistance for Key Workers to Obtain Housing
  The Key Worker housing scheme is also run within the district by one of our partners, providing assistance for those in essential public sector jobs to obtain housing.

Garage Rental
As well as dwelling accommodation we also have a number of garages available thoughout the district for rent.