Posted by: Paul Fisher
Date/Time: 08/11/07 11:02:00
Locata is a choice-based letting system that gives housing tenants the chance to bid for available properties enabling them to transfer from one property to another.
Once registered on the scheme, applicants are placed into one of four bands according to their housing need and can start bidding for properties.
As a result of concerns and complaints about the system raised by residents, members of the Client and Partnerships Scrutiny Panel have set up a review into the choice-based lettings system in Hounslow (Locata) and the allocations policy.
The panel is responsible for ensuring that effective and vigorous scrutiny is applied to council services which are provided by an outside supplier under contract.
If you would like any more information about this review, or would like to share with councillors your views on Locata, please contact:
Benjamin Osifo
020 8583 2416
scrutiny@hounslow.gov.uk