FOI release

Social Housing Allocations

Case reference FOI2025/01071

Received 22 October 2025

Published 29 October 2025

Request

For calendar years 2024-2025, and year start 2025 to date, please provide the following aggregate, anonymised information held by your council. 1. The total number of individuals granted refugee status, humanitarian protection, or indefinite leave to remain who were placed in the highest priority band for social housing allocation. Please separate by type (e.g., column 1 refugee status, column 2 humanitarian protection etc.) Where numbers are less than or equal to 5, please express as ≤ 5 to protect individual identities, no personal information is requested. 2. Confirmation (yes/no) that all such individuals were assessed against the council's statutory housing need criteria under the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 (or equivalent legislation) and met those criteria. 3. The total number of council-owned or managed social housing properties allocated to individuals granted refugee status, humanitarian protection, or indefinite leave to remain in the highest priority band during each period. Please separate by type. Where numbers are less than or equal to 5, please express as ≤ 5 to protect individual identities, no personal information is requested. 4. The total number of social housing properties (council-owned or managed) allocated to all individuals in the highest priority band during each period. Where numbers are less than or equal to 5, please express as ≤ 5 to protect individual identities, no personal information is requested.

Response

1. The total number of individuals granted refugee status, humanitarian protection, or indefinite leave to remain who were placed in the highest priority band for social housing allocation. Please separate by type (e.g., column 1 refugee status, column 2 humanitarian protection etc.)  Where numbers are less than or equal to 5, please express as ≤ 5 to protect individual identities, no personal information is requested.

Non reportable. Verification of status is checked at point of assessment, however is not captured in a housing register application form and therefore cannot be reported on.

2. Confirmation (yes/no) that all such individuals were assessed against the council's statutory housing need criteria under the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 (or equivalent legislation) and met those criteria.

N/A

3. The total number of council-owned or managed social housing properties allocated to individuals granted refugee status, humanitarian protection, or indefinite leave to remain in the highest priority band during each period. Please separate by type. Where numbers are less than or equal to 5, please express as ≤ 5 to protect individual identities, no personal information is requested.

No council owned/ managed social housing properties within Tunbridge Wells borough

4. The total number of social housing properties (council-owned or managed) allocated to all individuals in the highest priority band during each period. Where numbers are less than or equal to 5, please express as ≤ 5 to protect individual identities, no personal information is requested.

No council owned/ managed social housing properties within Tunbridge Wells borough

 

Documents

There are no documents for this release.

This is Tunbridge Wells Borough Council's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.