Brentwood Borough Council Housing

Housing

We seek to provide a customer-focused service to tenants, applicants and the wider community, and to ensure effective linking between the Community Plan, the broad housing strategy and service delivery.

Our services include...

HomeOption
Brentwood Council has changed the way Council and housing association properties are let to people on the Housing Register and Transfer List.  To be considered for housing, applicants must express interest in suitable properties using a Choice Based Lettings scheme called HomeOption.

Housing Strategy
To prepare and keep under constant review the Borough housing strategy, ensuring the widest possible consultation with interested residents and organisations in the community.

Repairs, Maintenance and Improvements
To provide an effective, responsive and comprehensive repairs, maintenance and improvements service to tenants and leaseholders and their homes.

Energy Efficiency
To reduce the environmental impact of energy use in the domestic sector and seek to ensure that every household has access to affordable warmth.

Housing Enforcement, Intervention and Advice
To seek to ensure that people occupy homes which are safe, healthy and adequate for their needs.

Housing Needs
To provide an efficient, caring and clearly understandable service to those with a housing need in the Borough, including to those requiring access to affordable housing and to the Council's tenants with supported housing needs.

Estate Management
To provide an efficient, caring and responsive service to tenants and leaseholders, to enable the best possible enjoyment of their homes and the local environment within the community as a whole.

Tenant Participation
To ensure that tenants and leaseholders of the Council have the opportunity to participate in developing the strategy for and delivery of the housing service to the level they want.

Housing Administration and Support
To provide efficient and effective administrative support to the Housing and Welfare Service.

Allocations, lettings, mobility schemes, exchanges and house transfers, sheltered housing and emergency communication scheme for the elderly, building and maintenance, rent collection, housing association liaison, care in the community.

Interested in joining an authority striving for "excellence" under CPA rating.  We can offer:

• An opportunity to develop your career in Housing
• Fully funded training opportunities
• Focused and dynamic team

Interested? View the Council job vacancies

Online services

• Apply for housing transfer
• Moving in or out
• Pay housing/garage rent
• View housing/garage rent account
• View housing repair history
• Report non-urgent housing repair