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Sheltered Housing
What is Sheltered
Housing?
What can Sheltered Housing
offer?
Can I have Guests to stay?
Can I take my pet?
What about my T.V licence?
What happens after I apply?
How do I apply?
What is Sheltered Housing?
Sheltered housing is specially designed
accommodation, available to rent for people of pensionable age or
those who may have a particular need for this accommodation. The
accommodation would be completely self-contained and rented from a
Housing Association.
Sheltered housing can offer you a range of
services to help you live independently with the added security of
having someone to call on in emergencies.
Please note Sheltered accommodation
is
not like a residential care home. If you
are unable to live independently and need a very high level of
support please contact Hampshire County Council Adult Social
Services. Please click on the following link for contact details:
Homes for the elderly
What can Sheltered Housing offer?
- A Scheme Manager
- A chance to meet new friends
- A friendly and caring environment
- An assured tenancy
- A floating support service
- Choice to furnish and decorate your own flat to your own
taste
Sheltered accommodation is different from other social housing
because in many schemes a scheme manager or warden will usually be
on site during working hours (Mon – Fri). Scheme Managers can also
be contacted out of hours, or in an emergency through an alarm
system. Some sheltered schemes do not have a scheme manager or
warden on site, however, tenants have the option to have a weekly
visit from a duty scheme manager if this needed.
Some Sheltered schemes will have communal facilities such as a
laundry room or communal lounge.
Within the Borough of Havant the following Housing
Associations provide sheltered housing schemes:
- Abbeyfield
- Downland Housing Association
- Guinness Hermitage Housing Association
- Housing 21
- Southern Housing Group / James Butcher Housing Grop
- Twynham Housing Association
If you would like to considered please go to the How do I
apply? section on this page.
Guests at Sheltered Schemes
Some sheltered schemes will offer guest room accommodation to
relatives and friends of sheltered housing tenants. There is a
small charge for this service at schemes where applicable.
Pets at Sheltered Schemes
Other than small caged or tanked pets such as birds or fish,
pets are only allowed by prior written permission at the discretion
of the housing association that operates the scheme. The usual rule
applied to this would be if the front door to the accommodation
opens onto a shared corridor or staircase, permission will not be
granted for tenants to keep a dog or a cat. If you do keep a pet it
is your responsibility and you must make arrangements to have it
adequately cared for if you go away or become ill. Scheme managers
or wardens will not look after your pet for you.
Televisions at Sheltered Schemes
You may also be eligible for a concessionary TV licence.
How to apply for Sheltered Housing
Havant Borough Council operates a Choice Based Lettings scheme
for allocating 'general needs' and Sheltered cccommodation. This
is known as Hampshire Home Choice. For further
information about the scheme please contact the Housing Services
Team, details can be found below.
If you would like to apply for Sheltered accommodation you can
either:
Complete an on-line application form by visiting the Hampshire
Home Choice website. Please click on this link:
Hampshire Home
Choice .
Or alternatively to request a paper copy of the form
please contact Housing Services directly. Please click on this
link for contact details:
Housing Services
Team.
What will happen once I have applied for Sheltered
Housing?
Once your application has been assessed and registered you
will be sent a registration letter explaining which priority
band you have been placed in and your date of registration. This
letter will give you a registration log-in number for Hampshire
Home Choice and is proof that your application has been
accepted.
Your housing needs will be assessed from the information you
provide on your housing application form. Factors such as medical
conditions can be taken into consideration. Applicants who wish for
these needs, in relation to their housing application, to be
considered will need to complete an
additional Medical and Welfare Assessment form.
These forms are available on request from the
Housing Services Team .