How Bands are Allocated in Derby

Our Allocations Policy puts everyone who goes onto the housing register into one of four bands.

You will be placed into a band and informed of this when you are given your registration number. The most urgent cases for re-housing are put into the emergency band and the least urgent into band c.

Summary of the four bands

Emergency band

This band is for people who are legally homeless or statutorily overcrowded. 

Band A - urgent needs

Some examples include:

• people suffering from domestic violence, racial harassment, other forms of harassment

• people who have been discharged from hospital and who cannot go back to their home without it being adapted

• people under the 'rough sleepers initiative'

• people whose homes are legally termed 'overcrowded'

Band B - moderate needs

Some examples include:

• people living in a hostel needing to move and with a support plan in place

• private tenants with a notice seeking possession (NSP) or notice to quit (NTQ) from their landlord where it is not the fault of the tenant

• tenants who have children of both sexes over the age of 10 sharing a bedroom

• tenants who are willing to give up a high demand property (three bed bungalow, four bed house, specially adapted property) for a lower demand one

Band C - general needs

Some examples include:

• private tenants with secure tenancies (people who have not had a notice served on them)

• lodgers without dependent children

• people who own their homes and want to move into a council property