Office closure Easter 2025:

all area offices will be closed on Friday 18 April and Monday 21 April.

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Document downloads - Helping you find somewhere else to live

Applying for a council house

How to apply, guidance, appeals information.
- Application for Council Housing August 2023
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 205.12 KB
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- Housing application guidance notes August 2023
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 121.19 KB
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- Health and Housing process explained
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 161.64 KB
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- Applying for council housing
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 1.45 MB
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- Allocations Policy 2019
  - File type: DOCX
  - Size: 489.61 KB
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- Allocations FAQS
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 39.37 KB
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- Reasons for application suspension
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 46.85 KB
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- Housing Application Appeals
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 200.5 KB
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- Change of Choice
  - File type: DOCX
  - Size: 38.41 KB
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- Housing transfers information
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 33.35 KB
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- Household Form
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 53.42 KB
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- Housing Cancellations, Suspensions and Exclusions
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 181.18 KB
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Mutual Exchanges and Transfers

How to exchange or transfer your tenancy
- Transfer incentive information
  - File type: DOC
  - Size: 56.5 KB
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- Mutual Exchanges leaflet 2021
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 219.67 KB
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Choices for older people

Housing options information
- Housing options for older people leaflet
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 650.81 KB
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- Sheltered housing leaflet
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 555.28 KB
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Affordable housing

Information about affordable housing in East Lothian.
- Information about the LIFT Shared Equity Scheme
  - File type: DOCX
  - Size: 470.39 KB
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- Affordable Housing Oct-Dec 2019
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 450.11 KB
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- Affordable Housing definitions
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 36.31 KB
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Paying your rent
- East Lothian Council Rent Policy
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 342.38 KB
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