Home Buy Prioritisation order

 

The Home Buy priority order has since been updated again In December 2021 to the following order:

  • 1. Social Tenants
  • 2. Homeless working in Temporary accommodation
  • 3. Key workers currently living or working in the borough
  • 4. Wheelchair applicants (when it is a wheelchair adapted property)
  • 5. Living in the borough longer than 12 months
  • 6. Working in the borough longer than 12 months
  • 7. Living or working in the borough for less than 12 months

     

     

    Army / ex-army now falls within the key work category, but Ex-regular service personnel (who have served in the Armed Forces for a minimum of six years and can produce a Discharge Certificate, or similar document). Applications must be within 12 months of discharge.

     

    Key workers must currently be working in that role - living or working in the borough.

    Properties with two or more bedrooms: Households will be prioritised based on their bedroom size need.

    Applicants with children under 18 will be prioritised for properties with two or more bedrooms.

    Those applicants who register their interest in a property that has two or more bedrooms but do not have a need (e.g. single applicants or couples) will only be considered after we have exhausted the list of all applicants that do meet the bedroom size need. In that regard, we reserve the right to republish an advertisement for a property with two or more bedrooms multiple times to attract the targeted cohort.

CIVIC CAMPUS LLP

London Affordable Rent apartments

Address:

King Street,
Hammersmith, London
W6 9JU

Telephone: 020 8753 6464.

New homes available to Let in the iconic new community around Hammersmith’s revitalised Grade II listed Town Hall for keyworker households

 

Rents from £875.21 per calendar month

including service charges, from £86.20 per month

 

SUMMARY

Hammersmith & Fulham and A2Dominion are excited to announce the availability of new 1, 2 and 3 bed apartments for Rent under assured tenancies.

The Civic Centre includes a stylish collection of 1, 2 & 3 bedroom apartments, including spacious wheelchair accessible homes, and are available for Keyworker households to Rent.

Featuring contemporary kitchens, modern fittings and fixtures, spacious carpeted bedrooms and private outdoor spaces, the development also benefits from landscaped communal gardens.

DEVELOPMENT FEATURES

Do not miss your chance to view this New Build development with contemporary, stylish configurations. These include a hallway, open plan living/dining arrangements, double and single bedrooms, storage cupboards and family bathrooms. Several units also benefit from en-suite master bedrooms.

SPECIFICATION

Kitchen

Taupe Grey kitchen units with black integrated Siemens appliances

Silestone worktops with porcelain tile splashback

Integrated canopy extractor

Under cabinet LED lighting integrated to underside of wall units

Brushed stainless steel under–mounted kitchen sink

Brushed finish stainless steel mixer tap

Integrated oak laminate finish feature bookcase

Bathroom

Semi–recessed Vitra basin set on vanity top with brushed nickel mixer tap

Integrated vanity storage cupboard

Domus wall, floor and feature tiles

Built–in single ended bath with hand–held shower and wall mounted overhead shower

White shower trays with wall fixed shower head and hand–held shower

Wall hung Vitra WC with concealed cistern and soft close seat and cover

Heating, hot water, sustainability and utilities

Combined heat and power from centralised system

Ground Source Heat Pump system with individual meter in apartments

Underfloor heating

Comfort cooling

Energy efficient lighting system with integrated sprinklers, heat and smoke detectors

Wiring for Hyperoptic broadband (subscription required)

Low level white slimline sockets

Dimmer switches to living area, master bedroom and second bedroom (where applicable)

USB sockets to the master bedroom, kitchen and living area

TRANSPORT CONNECTIONS

Hammersmith & Fulham is served by several London Underground lines: the District, Piccadilly, Central and Hammersmith & City. Heathrow is 30 mins west of Hammersmith and the West End is only a short tube ride away.

Please note there are no onsite parking facilities at the development.

VIEWINGS

Viewings will take place in January 2025.

Rents

Weekly rents, including service charges, are set out below:

Size

Weekly rents

1 bed

£231.17 to £219.89

2 bed

£245.55 to £234.56

3 bed

£261.79 to £257.53

 

 

 

 

What is London Affordable Rent?

London Affordable Rent (LAR) is intended to provide an additional rental choice for lower to moderate income households, providing longer-term, higher quality, well-managed homes that are typically lower than regular market rents. The London Affordable Rent scheme can provide a solution for households struggling to meet open market rental costs, and those wishing to save a deposit to access home ownership in the future.

 

Do I qualify?

To qualify, applicants must meet all the following criteria:

1.    Have an up to date, verified application with Hammersmith and Fulham Home Buy and not own a property in the UK or abroad 

2.    The Housing Act 1996 requires that applicants are UK or Irish citizens, or people from abroad who are not subject to immigration control

3.    At least one member of the household must be employed as a keyworker (see Appendix 1 for full list of roles)

4.    Must be currently resident in Hammersmith & Fulham and have lived in the borough for a total of five out of the last seven years (unless exemptions apply under the Armed Forces Qualification Regulations or the Right to Move Regulations)

5.    Have a household income that does not exceed £46,250

 

How to apply

You must follow the steps below to apply:

1. Make sure you are registered with Hammersmith and Fulham Home Buy using the link below: 

https://www.handfhomebuy.org/choice/Login.aspx 

2. Once logged into your account, click ‘Interested’ on the property that you would like to be shortlisted for before the deadline: 

https://www.handfhomebuy.org/choice/homes.aspx 

Applications must be submitted through the Home Buy website. You should ensure your Home Buy application is up-to-date and that all your documents are uploaded to your online account.

The deadline for applying is 10am on Friday 13 December 2024.

We will not consider any changes to applications once the advert deadline has passed.

You must provide evidence of the following:

Qualification Criteria

Documents

Home Buy Application

Up-to-date verified application

Identification

Passport, Settled Status, Indefinite Leave to Remain

Key Worker

Proof of employment, Contract

Residency

Tenancy, Council Tax, Utility Bill

Income

Three most recent payslips

 

What happens after I’ve applied?

Your application will be verified to ensure you meet all the qualifying criteria.

Your application will be prioritised by income and application date. Applicants with the lowest income will receive the highest priority although each applicant will also have to meet affordability checks.

If applications have the same household income, we will prioritise by date of registration with Hammersmith & Fulham from oldest to newest.

Verified applications will then be nominated to A2Dominion who will carry out their own verification checks. This will include affordability.

You may be considered for homes that become available in later Phases if we receive more applications than homes.

How can I find out more?

If you have any questions in relation to the London Affordable Rents process at the Civic Centre, please email us on handfhomebuy@lbhf.gov.uk or call us on 020 8753 6464.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Appendix 1

 

KEY WORKER POSITIONS

 

Key workers are typically, NHS nurses, qualified teachers in state schools, social workers, fire fighters and police and prison officers. This document sets out the specific roles that would be eligible for the proposed Key Worker priority grouping.

 

EDUCATION

 

Teachers

Applicants must be qualified teachers employed in a maintained nursery (early years), primary or secondary schools, including:

•                • Community Schools,

•                • Academies, Voluntary

•                • Aided Schools,

•                • Voluntary Controlled Schools,

•                • Foundations School,

•                • Trust Schools,

•                • Schools for children with special needs,

•                • Pupil referral units.

 

Or, be hospital-based teachers or peripatetic teachers employed by a Local Education Authority or qualified teachers employed in the Ethnic Minority Advisory Service, Inclusion Support Services or similar services by a Local Education Authority or be qualified teachers in a non–maintained school for children with special needs where the pupils are LEA funded.

 

Further Education

All applicants must be teachers and employed in either:

•                o a further education sector institution (general FE college; sixth form college; art, drama & performing arts college; agriculture and horticulture college; tertiary college);

 

•                o or a non-FE sector independent specialist college providing further education for persons with learning difficulties and/or disabilities;

 

•                o or in an FE teaching post in a Higher Education Institution (HEI) or a Local Authority led education institution in England provided the course being taught is funded by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC);

 

Or, be qualified in a course leading to an FE teaching qualification, as defined by the Further Education Teachers Qualifications (England) Regulations 2007 - including Schools-based Qualified Teacher Status.

Nursery Nurses All applicants must hold the Diploma in Nursery Nursing or an alternative level 3 qualification appropriate for the care or development of children1 and be employed in a maintained early years school or nursery.

1 A full list of suitable level 3 qualifications is available on the Department for Education website

 

HEALTH

 

all applicants must be employees of one of the following NHS bodies;

•                • Health Protection Agency

•                • NHS Primary Care Trusts.

•                • NHS Trusts;

•                • NHS Ambulance Trusts

•                • NHS Mental Healthcare and Social care Trusts;

•                • The National Blood Transfusion Service;

•                • NHS Direct;

•                • NHS Professionals Special Health Authorities;

•                • NHS GP surgeries;

•                • NHS Dental practices that have been awarded NHS Body status. Where dental practices provide NHS services via a contract the NHS will provide a letter confirming their status as an NHS Body.

 

Within these employer organisations eligible key workers will include:

•                • All clinical staff employed by the NHS except doctors and dentists. The following are examples of included clinical roles (this is not an exhaustive list):

•                • Nursing staff in general;

•                • Cancer services staff;

•                • Diagnostic support staff including diagnostic radiographers, microbiologists, rehabilitation engineers, phlebotomists and bio-medical scientists;

•                • Health Care Assistants;

•                • Mental health professionals e.g. mental health nurses and graduate workers in primary care;

•                • Midwives;

•                • Social workers;

•                • Occupational therapists;

•                • Nursery nurses (qualified to level 3);

•                • Chiropodists;

•                • Physiotherapists;

•                • Clinical staff working within the Orthoptics field;

•                • Clinical staff working within the Dietetics field;

•                • Clinical staff working within the Prosthetics field;

•                • Speech Therapists;

•                • Arts Therapists;

•                • Paramedics;

•                • Ambulance staff with clinical skills including technicians;

•                • Psychologists

•                • Psychotherapists;

•                • Physiologists;

•                • Radiographers;

•                • Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians;

•                • Post mortem officers;

•                • Operating Department Practitioners;

 

Staff performing administrative roles or functions where the core skills are not peculiar to clinical organisations (e.g. IT specialists, catering staff, cleaners, maintenance staff) are not eligible.

 

POLICE

Metropolitan Police All applicants must be;

1. serving Police Officer, including those within the Royal Parks constabulary, who has been in post for six months or more i.e. once they have completed the initial training, or a Police Officer transferring from another constabulary who cannot be housed in police quarters

 

2. member of police staff who is directly employed and has been in post for six months and is in one of the following priority posts:

 

•                • Communications Officers

•                • Scientific Support Team

•                • Crime Analysts

•                • Station Reception Officers

•                • Bromley and Sutton Station are excluded as they are employed by a private sector Organisation)

•                • Civilian Gaolers

•                • Police Community Support Officers

•                • Intelligence Analyst/ Researcher

•                • Financial Investigator

•                • Custody Nurse

•                • IBO Staff

•                • Coroner’s Officer

•                • Witness Support Staff

•                • Burglary Investigator

•                • Evidential Imaging Officer

•                • Crime Management Unit Officer

•                • Telephone Investigation Unit Staff

•                • Firearms Enquiry Officer

•                • Football Liaison Officer

•                • Restorative Justice Officer

•                • Neighbourhood Watch (non-administrative roles)

 

BRITISH TRANSPORT POLICE Staff must have at least five years left of service and be based at stations in London and must be:

•                • Police Officers or Community Support Officers who have successfully completed initial training i.e 32 weeks service

•                • Crime Analysts or Senior Crime Analysts

•                • Communications Officer

•                • Civilian Scene of Crime Officer

•                • Community Race Relations Analyst

 

FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES

•                • Uniformed staff below principal level in London Fire and Rescue Services are eligible once they have successfully completed their initial training.

 

 

•                • Control Room Staff in London Fire and Rescue Services are eligible once they have successfully completed their initial training.

 

HM PRISON SERVICE All HM Prison Service establishments located in the borough are eligible for Key worker priority. In addition to working in one of the establishments applicants must also be from one of the following disciplines:

•                • Prison Officers and related grades;

•                • Nursing and other clinical Staff;

•                • Operational Support Grades (OSGs);

•                • Industrials;

•                • Instructional Officers

•                • LEA Employed FE Teachers

 

The following job roles are eligible;

•                • Grade Short descriptor

•                • Industrial Grades 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Craft grades

•                • Instructional Officer Prisoner workshop instructor

•                • Nursing Grades A, B, C, D, E, F, G & other clinical staff Clinical NHS grades

•                • Operational Support Grade Uniformed support grade

•                • Principal Officer Uniformed prison officer management grade

•                • Prison Officer Basic uniformed officer grade

•                • Psychologist Working on prisoner programmes

•                • Psychological Assistant Prisoner programmes support grade

•                • Senior Officer Uniformed prison officer management grade

 

Within this group, the highest priority should be given to first line and other managers with experience elsewhere. This will assist the recruitment of prison officers from elsewhere in the country to jails in London. The next highest priority should be the direct recruitment of staff in the grades listed above to the prisons in the table above.

PROBATION SERVICE

•                • Senior Probation Officers,

•                • Probation Officers,

•                • Probation Service Officers

•                • Other operational staff (except Assistant Chief Officers) who work directly with offenders.

 

HIGHWAY AGENCY TRAFFIC OFFICER STAFF

All applicants must be in the following safety critical roles:

•                • Supervisor (On road and Off road)

•                • Traffic Officer

•                • RCC Operator

 

OTHER LOCAL AUTHORITY STAFF

 

Other eligible key workers employed by local authorities are:

•                • Nurses and other clinical staff directly employed by Local Authorities to provide nursing/clinical care can be assisted in the same way as equivalent staff employed in the National Health Service;

 

•                • Fully qualified Social Workers and Children's Social Workers who are registered with the Social Care England and who have attained the recognised professional Social Worker degree/diploma;

 

•                • Unqualified Social Workers who are registered with Social Care England and currently working towards attaining such qualifications (including Graduate trainees)

 

•                • Qualified nursery nurses;

 

•                • Qualified Therapists including but not exclusively Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Rehabilitation Officers for the Visually Impaired;

 

•                • Qualified Educational Psychologists

 

•                • Environmental Health Officers/Practitioners who work in a local authority, government agency, NHS or other public sector agencies AND who hold either an EHRB Certificate of Registration or an EHRB Diploma in Environmental Health.