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Document downloads - Helping you find somewhere else to live

Applying for a council house

How to apply, guidance, appeals information.
- Armed Forces Community Covenant
  - File type: DOCX
  - Size: 324.45 KB
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- Change of Choice
  - File type: DOCX
  - Size: 36.03 KB
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- Council Stock list Oct 2017
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 208.17 KB
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- Health and Housing Process Explained
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 161.64 KB
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- Housing Application Appeals
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 200.5 KB
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- Housing Application Form
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 192.8 KB
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- Housing Application Guidance Notes
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 137.67 KB
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- Housing Transfers Information
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 33.35 KB
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- How we let our Council Houses
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 203.74 KB
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- Housing Cancellations, Suspensions and Exclusions
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 181.18 KB
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- Allocations Policy 2019
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 689.1 KB
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- Reasons for application suspension
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 46.85 KB
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- Allocations FAQS
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 39.37 KB
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- Household Form
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 53.42 KB
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Buying a Home

Useful contacts and moving information
- East Lothian Estate Agents
  - File type: DOC
  - Size: 78.5 KB
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- East Lothian Solicitors
  - File type: DOC
  - Size: 57 KB
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- Edinburgh Estate Agents
  - File type: DOC
  - Size: 138 KB
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- Edinburgh Solicitors
  - File type: DOC
  - Size: 131.5 KB
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- Moving Home
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 280.07 KB
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Applying to a Housing Association

Explanation of Housing Association tenancies.
- Explaining the Scottish Secure Tenancy
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 786.2 KB
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Mutual Exchanges and Transfers

How to exchange or transfer your tenancy
- Transfer Incentives Leaflet
  - File type: DOC
  - Size: 62.5 KB
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- Your guide to swapping your Council House
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 511.38 KB
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Choices for Older People

Housing Options information
- Sheltered Housing brochure
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 676.38 KB
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- Housing Options for Older People leaflet
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 650.81 KB
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Housing help for our Armed Forces Community
- Military Matters Housing Advice Leaflet
  - File type: DOCX
  - Size: 380.93 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 June-Sept 2019
  - File type: DOCX
  - Size: 33.79 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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Homelessness
- Notes to help challenge a decision
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 104.25 KB
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- Request for a decision review
  - File type: DOC
  - Size: 26.5 KB
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Looking for a Private Let

Private letting agents and solicitors
- East Lothian Estate Agents
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 18.28 KB
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