Homechoice

The letting cycle beginning on Wednesday 22th December 2023 will run for 2 weeks instead of the normal one-week cycle and will therefore end on Monday 1st January 2024. Letting cycles will return to one-week cycles as normal after this date.

Our current timescale to assess new HomeChoice applications is 3-4 weeks from the date the application is submitted online. If we need you to supply further information or documents for us to complete our assessment, we will then suspend your application to give you additonal time to provide these. To help ensure that your application is assessed as quickly as possible, please upload all required documents directly to your HomeChoice application. A checklist of required documents can be found in the 'documents' tab on the main home page.

Outstanding rent arrears from current or previous addresses may prevent an offer of housing being made through HomeChoice.

All applicants registered with HomeChoice must ensure they have a regular repayment plan in place for any rent arrears. The arrears should be cleared to ensure future offers of housing can be made.

For debt and money advice please contact your local Citizen’s Advice service.

We carry out desk based verification checks as well as unannounced home visits in order to prevent and deter fraudulent housing register applications. If you have any concerns about a potentially fraudulent housing register application, such as an applicant who has provided false or misleading information, please report this to housingregister@cherwell-dc.gov.uk or anonymously using the ‘contact us’ form on the Cherwell District Council website. Please include as much information and detail as possible for us to investigate and consider leaving your contact details as we may need to make further enquiries with you.

It is an offence under the Housing Act 1996 to give false or misleading information or to withhold information in relation to a housing register application. Applicants providing fraudulent information will also be disqualified from the housing register for a period of 5 years. Any offer of housing obtained fraudulently will be withdrawn or legal action will be taken to end any tenancy that has been obtained as a result of providing false or misleading information.

The letting cycle beginning on Wednesday 21st December will run for 2 weeks instead of the normal one-week cycle and will therefore end on Monday 2nd January 2023. Letting cycles will return to one-week cycles as normal after this date.