Welcome to South Oxfordshire Choice Based Lettings

Who Can Use the Service?

Anyone who has been accepted onto the South Oxfordshire Housing Register is able to use the service. To apply to join the Housing Register you must be over 16 years of age.

You will need to complete an application form, which you can get from Housing Services or download from this website. The application form enables you to apply for a Council or Housing Association rented home, a low cost home ownership home or both. For details on how to contact us and our opening hours click How to Contact Us or click on one of the links below to print your own form. The form is twenty pages long and we suggest you use the black and white version to save on printer ink.

Homechoice application form in black and white

Homechoice application form in full colour

Along with your application form you will be asked to provide the following documents:

•  Proof of identity for all household members (e.g. passports, birth certificates, child benefit book)

• Proof of current address (e.g. recent gas or electricity bill)

• Evidence of your right to reside in the UK if you are not a British Citizen
  (e.g. passport and other relevant documents from the Home Office)

Before you are offered a property you will be asked to provide further documents to support your application. We will tell you what documents to provide and when to provide them.  All documents provided must be originals, up to date and valid. For a full list of acceptable documents contact Housing Services.

Please complete the form carefully. If you do not complete all sections it will be returned to you.

If you do not provide us with the documents required your application may be accepted onto the housing register but will not be awarded any priority. Once the documents are received your application will be re-assessed and placed in the appropriate band from the date the documents were received. Click The Priority Scheme for more details on our banding scheme.

Who cannot use the service?

You cannot use this service if you have not completed an application and been accepted onto the housing register.

There are also some other people who will not by law be eligible to join the housing register. These are:

• Some people who are subject to Immigration Control under the 1996 Asylum and Immigration Act
• People from abroad who are not subject to immigration control but who are not habitually resident in the UK, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or the Republic of Ireland
• People (including members of their household) whose previous behaviour makes them unsuitable to be a tenant.

For more detailed information contact Housing Services.