Essex Housing Association Property Website

[cleoval]

Hi Can anyone give me the web address of applying for Housing Association Properties in all of Essex and also Southend On Sea please.? Thanks.

[bookbinder]

It might be on this list:
https://www.192.com/atoz/business/essex/housing--associations/

[barry1010]

Does this help? https://www.southend.gov.uk/applying-council-housing/apply-council-housing

[pastafreak]

Cleoval, what happened to your plans to relocate to Devon?

[Buenchico]

There is no single organisation or website in Essex.

Some local authorities ( Brentwood, Broxbourne, Chelmsford, East Herts, Epping Forest and Uttlesford) make council and/or housing association properties in the relevant parts of Essex and Hertfordshire available through the Home Option scheme
https://www.homeoption.org/default.aspx
but you still need to register with at least one of the local authorities first. (You're then automatically entered into the Home Option scheme).

Individual housing associations have 'nomination agreements' with local authorities, meaning that rented housing is only made available to people who've been put forward by those authorities. So you're going to have to do things the hard way and register with all of the local authorities within your areas of interest.

Constitutionally, Southend isn't part of Essex. (i.e. it's not within the control of by County Council). The city is a unitary authority. Their On the Move website is here:
https://www.southend-on-the-move.org.uk

Thurrock (which is the area around Grays, Purfleet, Tilbury, etc) is also a unitary authority. Their website is here:
https://www.thurrock.gov.uk/finding-somewhere-to-live/applying-for-council-housing

The websites that you'll need within 'proper' Essex (i.e. where Essex County Council has control) are as follows:

Basildon: https://www.basildonchoice.org.uk/

Braintree, Colchester and Maldon (as well as parts of Suffolk, including the area that I live in):
https://www.gatewaytohomechoice.org.uk/

(See also here https://www.braintree.gov.uk/housing/apply-housing, here https://cbhomes.org.uk/find-a-home/apply-for-housing and here https://www.maldon.gov.uk/info/20054/housing/9616/first_steps )

Castle Point (which is the area around Southend, such as Hadleigh and Canvey): https://www.castlepointhomechoice.org.uk

Chelmsford: https://www.chelmsford.gov.uk/housing/looking-for-a-home/joining-our-housing-register

Epping Forest (Epping, Chigwell, Chipping Ongar, etc):
https://www.eppingforestdc.gov.uk/housing/council-housing/apply-for-council-housing

Harlow: https://www.harlow.gov.uk/housing-and-garages/council-housing/apply-council-housing

Rochford: https://www.rochford.gov.uk/housing/housing-register

Tendring (Clacton and the surrounding area): https://www.tendringdc.gov.uk/housing/housing-options-advice/apply-housing

Uttlesford (Great Dunmow, Saffron Walden, etc): https://www.uttlesford.gov.uk/article/5308/I-want-to-apply-for-a-Council-or-Housing-Association-Home

[cleoval]

hi it is housing associations i am looking for in southend and essex websites not council houses. Thanks.

[cleoval]

Thank you everyone for your answers and Buenchico for your detailed answer. Much appreciated.

[Buenchico]

^^^ We know that, Cleaoval, but the relevant housing associations only accept direct applications from people who're looking to buy their shared ownership properties. They only offer rented properties to people who're on local authority housing registers. So you have to register for council housing in order to be offered housing association properties. (Doing it that way means that housing associations aren't lumbered with the unenviable task of deciding who does, or does not, get offered a home at below market rents. They leave it to local authorities to determine priorities).

[Buenchico]

^^^ Crossed posts!

;-)