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Request reference number: MGLA111124-4636
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Summary of request
Your request
This is relating to Warminster, Wiltshire contribution to the Seaside and country homes scheme: Seaside and Country Homes areas and properties | London City Hall
According to the Seaside and country homes scheme website, Warminster has offered 38 bungalows in Ruskin Drive for people from London living in social housing to move to is they are have one household member over 55 years old.
My questions are as follows;
- Wiltshire council confirm they do not know about this program and have not offered these 36 bungalows. Who within your office has come up with this figure and where did this come from?
- What qualifies someone in London to use scarce housing stock in Warminster, Wiltshire?
- Please send me the risk assessment you have written for housing people from London in Warminster, Wiltshire.
Our response
Seaside & Country Homes (SCH) is a housing mobility scheme for London’s social tenants that has been operating since 1968. The scheme is underpinned by a nomination agreement between the Mayor of London and participating housing associations. All properties on the scheme are managed by housing associations. There are no council properties included on the scheme. There are 36 properties on Ruskin Drive and adjacent roads offered by housing associations as part of the Seaside & Country Homes scheme.
Seaside and Country Homes is open to existing social housing tenants living in London, where at least one member of the household is age 55 or above. The eligibility criteria for the Seaside & Country Homes scheme requires an applicant to be:
- 55 years of age or over
- A secure, assured or fixed term tenant of a London borough or participating housing association in London
- A household of no more than three people
- Be capable of living independently. If there are no eligible residents as part of the Seaside & Country Homes scheme, the properties are returned to the housing association to let locally.
The Greater London Authority (GLA) isn’t required to undertake a risk assessment for housing people from London in Warminster, Wiltshire. However, the GLA is in regular contact with the housing association that manages the properties locally in Warminster.