Homechoice

During the week commencing Monday 19th July, our HomeChoice website will be updated. As part of the updates the ‘My Messages’ function will no longer be available.

If you need to contact the Housing Allocations Team you will need to email housingregister@cherwell-dc.gov.uk  or call 01295 227004. Please review our FAQ section before emailing or calling with a query. You can continue to upload supporting documents and information directly to your HomeChoice account as normal under the My Account section where they will be reviewed by the team.

New applications cannot be activated until all required documents have been submitted and any further checks that are needed have been made. In order to help avoid delays in your application being assessed, please ensure you upload a signed declaration form (found under the Documents tab) to your account. We need this form in order to make further enquiries and checks including tenancy referencing. These checks can take a number of weeks to make, so please upload the declaration form and all other documents required as soon as possible to avoid delays.

A checklist of the documents you will need to submit can be found under the Documents tab.

This Rent to Buy flat is still available and advertised again on this week’s cycle (starting 5th May 2021). Applicants must be employed in order to be considered by the housing provider,  Harrow Churches Housing Association. For more information about this Rentplus scheme please visit: https://hcha.org.uk/rentplus/ 

The scheme allows tenants to take the first step into home ownership. Tenants can initially rent the property with the option to buy after a period of time. Rentplus will gift you 10% deposit of the property’s market value at the time of purchase.

A small development of 1, 2 and 3 bed properties is due to be delivered in the village of Ardley in April/ May 2021. Applicants with a village connection will receive priority for these properties. Please ensure that your HomeChoice application is updated if you have a connection to Ardley. For example, through employment, current residence for the last 5 years, have previously lived in the village for 10 years and/ or have family that have resided in the village for 5 years.

You can update your village connections online by signing into your HomeChoice account and editing section 5 of your application.

Any village connection will be verified.

The letting cycle beginning on Wednesday 23rd December will run for 2 weeks instead of the normal one week cycle and will therefore end on Tuesday 5th January 2021. Letting cycles will return to one week cycles as normal after this date.