Highland Housing Register

The six main providers of rented accommodation in the Highlands have  joined forces to make it easier for applicants on housing waiting lists to access housing. The Highland Council together with the five housing associations operating in the Highlands -  Albyn; Cairn; Lochaber; Lochalsh & Skye; and Pentland - have produced a single housing register and this week 15,000 applicants on the waiting lists of the agencies will be sent a new housing application form to complete.

The new application form means people who want to be housed by the Council or any of the housing associations with housing in the Highlands will only have to fill in a single form.  Previously applicants had to complete separate Housing Application Forms for each landlord.  

However anyone who is on a housing list with any of the landlords just now will have to fill in a new form.

Councillor Margaret Davidson, Chair of the Council’s Housing and Social Work Committee said: “The Highland Housing Register is a really exciting initiative that will make it easier for people to apply for housing in the future. It is very important that people remember to complete the forms when they receive them – even if they have already provided information in a different application quite recently. We will only be able to include people on the new Highland Housing Register if they complete a form.”
 
If any applicants have any queries regarding the new form, they can contact any of the partners for further information.

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