Local Priorities
Watford B.C. Local Priorities
- Applicants who live or work in Watford at the moment or have a local connection
(Current home owners will only be considered where there is a housing need e.g. existing shared ownership home owners where their properties are no longer suitable for them and/or their family, or relationship breakup where the applicant still cannot afford to buy on open market)
Local Connection - Watford
For you to be considered as having a local connection to Watford Borough Council, one of the following criteria must apply:
Applicants must:
- Have lived three years out of the last five years in the borough of Watford
- Have lived six months out of the last 12 months in the borough of Watford
- Have a permanent job in the borough of Watford, working sixteen hours or more per week
- Have a close relative who presently lives in the borough of Watford and who has lived in the borough for at least five years (such as parents, children or siblings)
- Live in temporary accommodation outside the borough, placed there by Watford Borough Council
- Have been placed in temporary accommodation outside the borough by a statutory agency and Watford is the applicants originating authority
- Prove there is special circumstances which Watford Borough Council considers give rise to a local connection
Any periods of residency as a result of a placement by a different Local Authority’s homelessness service or by a statutory agency, where Watford is not the applicants originating authority, will not be considered towards local connection.
In order for a local connection to give an applicant priority for a nomination it must apply and be relevant at the point in time that they bid for and are offered a property.
