Housing Options and homelessness

Your local Housing Options team is a small team who provide the council's homelessness service and manage the housing register (also called the waiting list).

Updates on our service due to Coronavirus

Apply for a council or housing association home: Following the government's advice that people can now move house, the council will restart advertising council and housing association properties that are available for allocating to applicants on the council's housing register as from Friday 22 May.

Therefore the next HomeOption Freesheet will be published on the HomeOption website as from 9.00am on Friday 22 May and every Friday thereafter. Shortlists close every Wednesday at 1pm.

Homelessness

We have put together some homelessness frequently asked questions.

The Housing Options team

A duty Housing Options officer is available Monday 8:30am to 5pm, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 1pm to 5pm and Friday 8:30am to 4:30pm.

Our Housing Options officers want to help and are experienced in assisting people in various situations including:

people who have lost their accommodation
people who are worried about losing their home
people who need to move

If you are already a Council tenant your Housing officer will provide advice.

How to get in touch

If you believe you are at risk of losing your home, please contact us as soon as possible.

Do not wait until you lose your home.

Telephone: 01799 510510 and ask for the duty Housing Options officer.
(If you call out of office hours, you will be directed to an out of hours service.)
Email: housingoptions@uttlesford.gov.uk
Complete an Online Enquiry Form

If you are homeless or threatened with homelessness, once we have made an initial assessment of your needs, we will set aside plenty of time dedicated to fully understanding your needs and agreeing a plan of action to help you out. You will then have a named Officer responsible for helping you meet your housing need.
We look forward to hearing from you.

Before contacting the Housing Options team, you may find it useful to look at our Housing Options and homelessness frequently asked questions.

If you are an authority wishing to make a referral please read the Duty to refer homeless people to a local authority page

Additional information

► Icon for pdf Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy 2020-2025 [580.58KB]