Southwark Housing Allocations

Housing Allocations Scheme Consultation 2025

This consultation invites you to comment on proposals to update Southwark Council’s Housing Allocation Scheme, which sets out how we allocate social rented housing in Southwark.

We have a public law duty to operate a housing allocations scheme that sets out how we allocate social rented homes. The current Scheme was introduced in 2014 and now needs updating in accordance with regulations and statutory guidance issued by the UK Government.

It is important that we hear from as many people as possible on these proposed changes, and we encourage you to respond to the consultation with your views. 

This Consultation will close on 1st June 2025.  

Once the consultation ends and all the responses have been reviewed, we will make final changes to the proposed new Scheme and present it to Southwark Council’s Cabinet for their approval.

We will, of course, publish the final Scheme document and write to all applicants on the Housing Register to let them know of any changes to their priority once their application has been reviewed.