You can view the latest Locata HOME online at www.locata.org.uk and you can view a more personalised version of the freesheet when you log in to the Locata website using your LIN number.
Improved Online Applications Goes Live
Our new and improved online social housing application service has gone live.
There are now new, quick self-assessment tools, to tell you if you are likely to have a priority band, and a full online application form available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.
You can choose to receive information from your local council by email, text or letter, whichever is better for you.
For people already registered, personalised on-line advice is available on the borough's housing options website. The web addresses to each of these is provided below.
Coming soon: You will be able to keep us updated online about changes to your personal information - helping us to contact you and help you.
These changes will save your local council money and will reduce the amount of paper, printing and postage we use, so these changes are beneficial for the environment, too
Five West London partners are now live with THO
To go directly to the new housing options websites please click on the links below.
Brent www.locata.org.uk/Brent
Ealingwww.locata.org.uk/ealing
Harrow www.locata.org.uk/Harrow
Hillingdon www.locata.org.uk/Hillingdon
Hounslow www.locata.org.uk/Hounslow
My Advice Gateway is a free website resource for you, the customer. It has brought together lots of useful advice, information and links in one place in an easily searchable website for you to use. It is sponsored by LHS so please feel free to use it as much as you want.
We will, in a couple of months, be adding a Financial and Banking section to this website.
Subscriptions
For a small subscription fee a printed version of your personalised Freesheet can be posted directly to you for 6 months. The fee is £19.00 to receive the print-out via 1st class post and £14.50 to receive it 2nd class post. Please make your cheque/postal order payable to ‘Locata (Housing services) Ltd’ and send, together with your LIN number and mailing address to:
Locata,
PO Box 294,
Ruislip,
HA4 8WX
Please notify Locata of any change to your mailing address. Please note that all subscription fees are non-refundable.
West London Mutual Exchange
If you're a public sector tenant, you can move home using Mutual Exchange by swapping your home with that of another public sector tenant. You can also register for Mutual Exchange so that your home will be advertised here for other tenants to see.
To find out if your organisation are a part of the scheme and find out more about how Mutual Exchange works Click Here.
Other Councils and Housing Associations within the Locata partnership also have sheltered housing for rent. You will need to contact them individually to ask about their eligibility criteria.
Six London boroughs, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon and Hounslow and twelve Housing Associations, Genesis, Catalyst Communities HA, Paradigm, A2 Dominion, Notting Hill, Shepherds Bush, Stadium, Thames Valley, Inquilab, Octavia, Sir Oswald Stoll and Westway Housing Associations have joined forces with Locata to help people find the homes they want.
Locata was designed to give you more choice about where you want to live. In the past the council decided where and when you would be offered a home, now you can choose.
Existing Council and Housing Association tenants who would like to transfer can use Locata to find a new home, as well as Home Seekers - people who are on their council’s housing register or who are homeless.