Coming soon… Fawkham Parish Council is pleased to let you know about the Local Lettings & Sales Plan (LLP) for nine of the new affordable homes at the former Salts Farm Depot in Fawkham, to be known as Old Halt Close. The homes are expected to be ready in December 2024/January 2025 and will be managed by West Kent Housing Association.
There are:
Six homes for Affordable Rent
– 4 x 1 bedroom/2-person flats
– 2 x 2 bedroom/3-person flats
and
Three homes for Shared Ownership
– 2 x 2 bedroom/3 person houses
– 1 x 3 bedroom/5 person house
The LLP aims to help meet the identified local housing need for affordable housing in Fawkham Parish (the Primary Parish) and the parishes of Hartley, Ash-cum-Ridley, West Kingsdown and Horton Kirby & South Darenth.
Anyone interested in the homes for Affordable Rent must be on the Sevenoaks District Housing Register. Eligible applicants will then be able to bid for the homes when they are advertised on Kent Homechoice later this year. To apply to the Housing Register, please see SDC’s website here or telephone the Housing Register team on 01732 227000 or email them at housing.register@sevenoaks.gov.uk
Anyone interested in the Shared Ownership homes should contact the West Kent Sales Team at sales@wkha.org.uk or telephone 01732 749900.
For these homes priority will be given to applicants, for first and subsequent lets, who have a proven local connection to Fawkham, meaning an applicant:
(i) lives in Fawkham and has done so continuously for the last three years to date; or
(ii) has lived in Fawkham for at least five out of the last ten years to date; or
(iii) has previously been a member of a Close Family household living in Fawkham and said household currently resides in the Primary Parish and has done so for a minimum of 10 years continuous to date; or
(iv) are employed full time in Fawkham on a permanent basis or those who will be taking up such employment and whose main place of work is within the Parish; or,
(v) are self-employed on a full time basis and the majority of their work is in Fawkham; or
(vi) provide an important service, as agreed by the Council, requiring them to live locally in Fawkham.
If there are insufficient applicants with a local connection to Fawkham, priority will be given to applicants who have a proven local connection to Hartley, Ash-cum-Ridley, West Kingsdown or Horton Kirby & South Darenth.
If, after two rounds of advertisement, there are insufficient applicants with a local connection to Fawkham Parish and/or Neighbouring Parishes, any remaining homes will be let in accordance with the Sevenoaks District Housing Register Allocations Policy.
For the Shared Ownership homes, if more than one applicant has a proven strong local connection to Fawkham Parish, West Kent HA will determine the order of priority by reference to the housing need of said applicants, taking into account the size of accommodation required based on the composition of an applicant’s household and the date of an applicant’s registration of interest with West Kent Housing Association.
If, after two weeks from the commencement of marketing there are insufficient applicants with a local connection to Fawkham who have passed the initial financial assessment, priority will also be given to applicants who have a proven local connection to the Neighbouring Parishes.
If, after four weeks from the commencement of marketing there are insufficient applicants with a local connection to Fawkham and/or the Neighbouring Parishes who have passed the initial financial assessment, the home will be allocated in accordance with the Sevenoaks District Council Intermediate Housing Protocol, ie after 4 weeks, priority will also be given to applicants with a local connection to the District as set out in the Protocol.
If, after eight weeks from the commencement of marketing there are no applicants with a local connection to the Primary Parish, Neighbouring Parishes or the Sevenoaks District who have passed the initial financial assessment, the home will be allocated in accordance with the national guidelines applying to Shared Ownership housing.
A four bedroom house for Affordable Rent will be allocated in accordance with the Sevenoaks District Housing Register Allocations Policy outside of the LLP.
