Local Lettings Policies (LLPs) are agreed local plans for the allocation and letting of homes between the Council and another Housing Provider, including Registered Providers of Social Housing, Community-led housing groups and other private housing providers.
LLPs are designed to ensure the best use of available housing stock, based upon local housing need and any wider criteria as agreed by the Council and Housing Provider. Agreed in respect of new-build developments, LLPs are used to promote balanced and mixed communities, so any new housing provision blends cohesively with existing stock
Local lettings policies can be placed on:
- New build and/or regeneration schemes
- Affordable Rented Properties
- A group of properties of a particular type or in a particular neighbourhood in the following circumstances:
- Reducing the minimum age criteria for certain 'lower demand' bungalows or older people schemes
- Imposing temporary restrictions - such as a minimum age, or on new tenants in a block of flats which may have been subject to anti-social behaviour from former tenants
- Introducing an upper or lower age limit on a block of flats to help prevent a clash of lifestyles.
When criteria or restrictions have been applied to a property it will be mentioned in the property advert when you search for a home (external link).
More information about our local lettings policies can be found in our allocations policy.