FOI request (FOIR-697092880)

Social housing register bands

Requested Tue 18 March 2025
Responded Tue 25 March 2025

I am requesting the following information under the Freedom of Information Act:

1. A list of all the different priority 'bands' (or levels, or categories) in the council's social housing register/waiting list, and the current criteria for inclusion in each band.

2. The number of people currently in each priority band.

3. The average time the people in each priority band have been on the social housing register/waiting list (regardless of whether they have changed priority band during that time).

4. The predicted/likely waiting time to secure social housing for anyone newly joining each priority band.

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Response

1. This information is available on our website:

https://www.hastings.gov.uk/housing/social_housing/homemove/

Hastings Borough Council is currently in the process of reviewing its Allocation Scheme and it will be updated on our website in due course.

2. Number of people in each priority band:

Band A - 764

Band B - 436

Band C - 434

Band D - 102

3. As at 20/03/2025:

Band A - 8670 days

Band B - 1679 days

Band C - 5203 days

Band D = 2347 days

4. See the attached spreadsheet for information.

Attachments

• FOIR-697092880_FOIR-697092880_1-FOIR-697092880_Information_Q4.xlsx