Wandsworth Council
Home Ownership
application form
You should fill in this form if you want to buy a
property other than the one you currently live in.
When you return this form, you must include the supporting
documents we have asked for on page 16. If you do not,
we will reject your application.
Wandsworth Council
Home Ownership application form
A number of different sales schemes are available. By filling in this form, we will be able to tell
you which schemes you are eligible for. You can get details of the schemes from the Home
Ownership Team at the address below.
The Housing Options service has been designed so that anyone looking for an affordable
home in London will only need to fill in one application form to find homes from all the
different housing associations and some private developers.
There are two housing associations or Homebuy agents who the Government have given the
job of putting forward people for affordable housing in London. They are London & Quadrant
and Metropolitan Home Ownership. Our home ownership team is working with London &
Quadrant to provide affordable housing.
Please note the four points below.
The main person applying must fill in Sections 1 to 6, Section 8 and Section 9 of this form.
We will generally need all adults over the age of 18 who will be living at the new property
to become joint applicants. This does not include children of the main person applying if
they are under 30.
All joint applicants must fill in a joint application form. If there is more than one joint
applicant applying, you will need to take photocopies of the joint application form.
The main person applying and all joint applicants must sign Section 9 of this form.
Please give us all of the extra pieces of information we have asked for on page 16, such as
copies of birth certificates, tenancy agreements and so on.
If you do not provide these, we cannot accept your form and we will return it to you.
To fill in the form
Please fill in the form as fully as possible in CAPITAL LETTERS in black ink. Please use extra sheets
of paper if you cannot fit your answers into the space provided. If you use any extra sheets,
please put your full name, date of birth and the question number you are answering on the top
of each sheet.
Right to Buy
Do not fill this form in if you want to buy the property you live in under the Right to Buy
scheme. If you are our tenant and want to apply for Right to Buy, please contact us on
(020) 8871 6016 and we will be able to send you a Right to Buy application pack, or you can
download the form from our website at www.wandsworth.gov.uk/homeownership.
Housing associations may contact you by mobile phone or email. Please make sure you tell the
Home Ownership Team about any change to your contact details.
If you need any help filling in the form, please:
phone us on (020) 8871 6016;
email us at housesales@wandsworth.gov.uk; or
visit our website at http://www.wandsworth.gov.uk/homeownership
Section 1 - about you
The main person applying must fill in this section.
1 Title
Mr
Mrs
2 Sex
Male
Miss
Ms
Other
Female
3 First name or names
4 Last name
5 Previous last name (if this applies)
6 Address and postcode
7 Date of birth
8 National Insurance number
9 Phone numbers
Home
Work
Mobile
Email address
10 What is the best time to contact you?
11 Which borough do you live in?
12 Which borough do you work in?
13 In the following table, please give the details of each person who is currently living
with you at the address shown above.
Full name of the person
Relationship to you
Their date of birth
/
/
/
Section 2 - about the home you currently live in
/
14 When did you move into your current address?
15 How many bedrooms does the property have?
16 Is it a flat, maisonette, bungalow or house?
17 If it is a flat, what floor is it on?
18 Does it have a lift?
Yes
No
19 Do you have a tenancy?
Yes
No
20 What is your current tenancy status?
Temporary accommodation
provided by a local authority or
housing association
A council tenant
Renting privately
If provided by a local authority or
housing association, please give details.
A housing-association tenant
Renting from your employer
Living with family or friends
A current or previous homeowner
(fill in Section 7)
Other - please give details.
If you are a current homeowner,
are you a housing association
leaseholder?
21 Are you currently our tenant?
Yes
No
If No, who is your landlord?
(If you are not our tenant, please attach a copy of your tenancy agreement or a letter
explaining why you do not have a tenancy agreement and then go to question 22.)
If Yes, please answer the following.
If you are our tenant, have you applied to buy the property under the
Right to Buy scheme?
Yes
/
On what date did your council tenancy begin?
Please give your rent reference number.
No
250
Section 3 - your previous addresses
22 Were you a public-sector tenant before you
moved to your current home?
Yes
No
23 Please give details of any other addresses where you have lived in the last five years.
Address of the property
Name of landlord
From
To
Section 4 - other people applying with you
24 If your application is successful and we offer you a property to buy,
please confirm who will be living with you at your new address.
Please send us copies of birth certificates and confirmation of the Child Benefit you receive for
any children under 18 who will be living with you. If you do not have permanent custody of
the child, please send us a copy of the court order or a letter from the childs other parent or
guardian confirming the agreed arrangements. Please confirm how many nights each week
each child will be living in the property with you.
Person 1
First names
Last name
Relationship to you
Date of birth
Are they:
male?
female?
National Insurance number
Do they currently live with you?
Yes
No
Will they be contributing to the mortgage payments?
Yes
No
Will they be contributing to the rent payments?
Yes
No
If No, why not?
What is their current
address and postcode?
If they are a child, how many nights each week
will they stay over?
Are they in full-time education or working?
Person 2
First names
Last name
Relationship to you
/
Date of birth
Are they:
male?
female?
National Insurance number
Do they currently live with you?
Yes
No
Will they be contributing to the mortgage payments?
Yes
No
Will they be contributing to the rent payments?
Yes
No
Yes
No
Will they be contributing to the mortgage payments?
Yes
No
Will they be contributing to the rent payments?
Yes
No
If No, why not?
What is their current
address and postcode?
If they are a child, how many nights each week
will they stay over?
Are they in full-time education or working?
Person 3
First names
Last name
Relationship to you
/
Date of birth
Are they:
male?
female?
National Insurance number
Do they currently live with you?
If No, why not?
What is their current
address and postcode?
If they are a child, how many nights each week
will they stay over?
Are they in full-time education or working?
Section 5 - where are you looking to live?
25 Please confirm below if you are currently registered on the following schemes.
Scheme name
Are you registered
on this scheme?
Wandsworth Housing register
Yes
No
Wandsworth Housing transfer list
Yes
No
Other local-authority waiting list
Yes
No
Metropolitan Home Ownership
Yes
No
London & Quadrant
Yes
No
What is your scheme
registration number?
If Yes, which local authority?
26 Where would you like to live?
There are no restrictions on the number of areas you can tick.
Inside the M25
Yes
No
If Yes, please say which part of London in the list given below.
North London
Barnet
Camden
City of Westminster
Enfield
Haringey
Islington
West London
Brent
Ealing
Hammersmith
and Fulham
Harrow
Hillingdon
Hounslow
Kensington and Chelsea
South East London
Bexley
Bromley
Greenwich
Lewisham
Southwark
South West London
Croydon
Lambeth
Merton
Kingston upon Thames
Richmond upon Thames
Sutton
Wandsworth
Outside the M25
Yes
No
Outside the United Kingdom
Yes
No
If outside the United Kingdom,
please say where.
East London
Barking and Dagenham
City
Hackney
Havering
Newham
Redbridge
Waltham Forest
Tower Hamlets
London generally
Section 6 - your financial and employment information
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Are you:
working?
Yes
No
If Yes, go to question 28.
self-employed?
Yes
No
If Yes, go to question 28.
retired?
Yes
No
If Yes, go to question 37.
unemployed?
Yes
No
If Yes, go to question 37.
Your employment details
28
Job title, occupation or grade
29
Staff number
30
Employers name and address
(If you are a teacher, this
should be your school name
and address.)
31
Employers phone number
32
Are you permanently employed?
33
Are you on a fixed-term contract? If Yes, please
Yes
No
give the start and end dates of the contract below.
34
35
Contract start date
Contract end date
How long have you worked in your current profession?
(If less than 12 months, please list your employment history on a separate sheet.)
36
I am self-employed and can provide at least two years accounts.
Yes
No
Your spending
37 Please tell us about any money you owe in your own name for credit cards,
bank loans, student loans and so on.
Loans left to pay
Total amount
you still owe
Payment
each month
Date the last
payment is due
Bank loan
Credit cards
Hire purchase
Mortgage
Student loan
Any other loans or commitments
Your savings
38 Please confirm the total amount
of savings you hold in your name.
Your income each year
39 Give your gross income each year (in other words, before tax but not
including bonuses or paid overtime). If you are self-employed,
Total each year
give your net annual profit (after deductions).
40 Any benefits paid to you, such as Housing Benefit, Income Support and so on.
Type of income
Amount
How often?
Total each year
Disability Living Allowance
Every
Housing Benefit
Every
Income Support
Every
Pension
Every
Employment and Support Allowance
Every
Note: If you receive Housing Benefit or Disability Living Allowance, this does not
always mean you cannot get access housing options or affordable housing schemes.
Any income from investments, for example, shares, rents and so on.
Type of income
Amount
How often?
Every
Every
Any child maintenance paid to you by a previous partner.
Type of income
Amount
Please list any other income.
Type of income
Total each year
How often?
Total each year
Every
Every
Amount
How often?
Total each year
Every
Every
Do these statements apply to you?
Please tick the appropriate boxes.
41 Do you have access to, or can you raise, at least 2000 to 4000
to cover the cost of buying a property?
Yes
No
42 Have you ever failed to keep up payments on any
loan or form of credit agreement?
Yes
No
43 Have you ever had a county court judgement registered
against your name?
Yes
No
44 Have you had a record, showing that you have failed to pay,
registered against your name within the last 18 months?
Yes
No
45 Have you missed any rent payments in the past 12 months?
Yes
No
46 Are you a British, European Union (EU) or
European Economic Area (EEA) citizen?
Yes
No
47 If not, is your passport stamped with Indefinite leave to remain?
Yes
No
Current status
48 If No, when does your leave to remain end?
Key workers
If you are a key worker, you must fill in this section
(other people applying should go to question 50).
Please tick the appropriate boxes.
Type of school
49 Education
Qualified nursery nurse
Further-education college
School teacher
Nursery
Teacher (further education
including sixth-form colleges)
Primary school
Secondary school
Do you have qualified teacher status?
Sixth-form college
Special school
Is your school funded
by the Government?
Main subject you teach
Yes
No
Yes
No
Are you working towards
a further-education
teaching qualification?
Yes
No
Do you have a
further-education
teaching qualification?
Other
Firefighters
Police
Fire and rescue services
(uniformed staff)
British Transport Police officer
Metropolitan Police civilian
Other
Metropolitan Police officer
Police community support officer
Local authority
Other
Educational psychologist
Police collar number
Local-authority clinical staff
Local-authority planner
Prison Service
Occupational therapist
Industrial
Qualified nursery nurse
Instructional officer
Rehabilitation officer for people
with sight difficulties
Nursing staff
Operational support grade
Speech and language therapist
Prison officers
Environmental officer
Other
Other
Which prison?
NHS
Probation Service
Allied health professional
Probation officer
Cancer service staff
Probation service officer
Diagnostic staff
Senior probation officer
Hospital play specialist
Trainee probation officer
Mental-health professional
Other
NHS clinical staff
Pharmacist
Social workers
Qualified nursery nurse
Adult social worker
Other
Childrens social worker
Which NHS trust do you work for?
NHS social worker
Highways Agency
Traffic officer
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Do you have a recognised
social work degree
or diploma?
Yes
No
Are you qualified?
No
Yes
Equal opportunities
It is against the law, and our equal opportunities policy, to discriminate against anyone for any
reason. We need to keep records to make sure we do not discriminate against anyone.
If you choose not to answer questions 50 to 54, it will not affect your application in any way.
We collect sensitive personal information about you, such as your ethnic origin and any disabilities
you might have, under the equal opportunities monitoring laws. Under section 29(3) of the Data
Protection Act 1998, we may use the information you give us to prevent and detect crime.
50 How would you describe your ethnic origin?
White
Asian or Asian British
British
Indian
Irish
Pakistani
Other
Bangladeshi
Mixed
White and black
Caribbean
White and black
African
Chinese
Other ethnic group
Other
Prefer not to say
Black or black British
Caribbean
Where were you born?
African
Other
White and Asian
Other
51 Are you interested in Sharia Compliant (Islamic) mortgages?
Yes
No
52 Do you consider yourself, or any member of your household,
to be disabled?
Yes
No
53 Are you or a member of your household on a
disabled persons register?
Yes
No
54 Do you or a member of your household use a wheelchair?
Yes
No
Yes
No
If Yes, say why.
Housing associations
55 Are you related to someone who works or has worked for a
housing association, as a committee board member or officer?
56 If Yes, please tell us their name and the name of the housing association.
Name
Housing association
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Section 7 - property ownership information
a) Fill this part in if you are selling your home.
1 What is the property address?
2 Please enclose two independent
estate-agent valuations.
If the difference is more than
10,000, you will need a third valuation.
Valuation:
Valuation:
Valuation:
3 Current mortgage details
Name of provider
Amount of loan left to pay
Current monthly payments
Please attach a copy of your last mortgage statement.
4 Fill in the details below to work out the estimated equity in the property.
a) Average valuation
b) Less outstanding mortgage
c) Cost of selling
Total estimated equity (a+b+c)
5 Have you ever received a key worker
equity loan from the Government?
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
If Yes, how much?
When?
From which housing association?
Is there a second charge registered against the property?
If Yes, what percentage?
6 Do you have a buyer for your home?
If Yes, what is the name and phone
number of your estate agent?
7 When are you likely to sell your home?
8
If you are behind with your payments or
you owe more money on the property
than it is worth, what repayment
arrangements have been made?
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b) Fill this part in if you have sold your home
1 What was the address of the
property you used to own?
2 When was the property sold?
3 What was your reason for selling?
a Relationship breakdown
Please tick one of the
b Moving for work reasons
following options.
c Overcrowding
d Other
If Other, please give the reason.
4 How much was the property sold for?
5 How much mortgage did you owe when it was sold?
6 How much did you receive from selling the property
after the property was repaid?
7 Did you ever miss any mortgage payments?
If Yes, we will need to see a copy of your credit file
and please provide the following details.
- How much were you in debt?
- How long were you in debt?
- What arrangements were made to clear the debt?
If you need to get a copy of your credit file, please contact:
Experian Limited Consumer Help Service
PO Box 8000
Nottingham
NG1 5GX.
Phone: 0115 976 8747
Website: www.experian.co.uk
8 If you owe more money on the property
than it is worth, what arrangements have
you made to pay it off?
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Yes
No
c) Fill this part in if you have had your name removed from a
mortgage.
1 What was the address of the property?
2 When was your name removed?
3 How much did you receive from the transfer?
d) Fill this part in if you are in the process of having your name
removed from a mortgage.
1 What is the address of the property?
2 When will your name be removed?
3 How much will you receive?
e) Fill this part in if you currently own a property.
1 Is this the property in which you live?
Yes
2 If not, what is the address of the property
you own?
3 If you do not live in the property,
why not?
4 When did you buy the property?
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Section 8
We are always trying to improve our services, so we are keen to
find out your opinions. To help us do this, please take a few
minutes to fill in this section.
Which council schemes are you interested in?
Right to Buy
House Purchase Grant
Homebuy Grant
Rent To Homebuy
Shared Ownership Nomination Scheme (SONS)
Freehold Purchase (for council leaseholders)
Intermediate Rent
HOLD
(Home Ownership for people with Long-term Disability)
Where did you hear about our service?
Homelife
Brightside
Local press
Council offices
Leaflet
Council website
Colleagues or friends
Other
Please tell us where
How did you contact us?
In person
By phone
By letter
By email
How strongly do you agree or disagree with the following statements?
Strongly
agree
Agree
Disagree Strongly
disagree
The application form was easy to understand.
All guidance notes about the scheme
were clear and concise.
I was treated fairly and sensitively
by the Home Ownership Team.
Only continue with this section if you visited our reception area.
The reception was easy to find.
I found it easy to get into the reception.
I found the information in the reception
area useful.
If you strongly agree or strongly disagree with any of the statements above,
please explain why.
If you visited our reception area,
how quickly were you seen?
Within 5
minutes
6 to 10 11 to 15 After 15
minutes minutes minutes
How do you rate the following?
Very good
Good
Speed of service
Helpfulness of staff
Politeness of staff
Knowledge of staff
Overall service
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Satisfactory Poor Very poor
If you have any other comments or suggestions on the service we provided, please give
them in the box below.
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Please also provide the following documents.
Tick if you have included the documents.
Everyone applying
Copies of childrens birth certificates
(Copies of birth certificates for all children under 18)
Confirmation of Child Benefit
(Child Benefit you receive for children under 18)
Court order confirming the childs custody arrangements
(Or a letter from the childs other parent or guardian confirming the agreement)
Proof of settlement status
(If you are not a UK or European Union citizen, a copy of your passport or a letter from
the Immigration Service confirming your status)
Everyone applying must provide proof of their identity, such as a copy of the
photograph identity page of a passport or a photo driving licence
Non-council tenants
A copy of your tenancy agreement for your current address
(Or a letter telling us why you do not have a tenancy agreement)
A copy of your driving licence
(Or some other official document which confirms your current address)
A copy of a household bill to confirm your current address
Have you used any extra sheets or sent any other pieces of information?
Yes
No
If Yes, please list what they are.
Number
Evidence
1
2
3
All applicants must sign Section 9 over the page.
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Section 9 - signatures
Everyone must sign below.
Plain English Campaigns Crystal Mark does not apply to Section 9 for legal reasons.
This authority is under a duty to protect the public funds it administers, and to this end may
use the information you have provided on this form for the prevention and detection of fraud.
It may also share this information with other bodies responsible for auditing or administering
funds for these purposes.
Declaration: It is a criminal offence to knowingly or without care make a false declaration or
withhold information that is reasonably needed in connection with your application.
I have read the above and confirm that I have provided accurate and up-to-date information
relating to my application. I understand that if you find that I have given false information to get
housing, you may take appropriate legal action against me and the registered social landlord or
local authority will apply to repossess the property.
I understand that if I am a council, housing association or other public-sector tenant, I will have
to give up my rented home on the day my new home becomes mine if I buy or rent a home
through any of the registered social landlords offering homes.
I agree to you sharing information with other Homebuy agents, partner housing providers
(registered social landlords or private developers), credit reference agencies, estate agents the
Housing Corporation and the Department for Communities and Local Government to nominate
me to buy a property and to produce information under the low-cost home-ownership schemes.
Your normal signature
Date
Date
Date
Date
Date
Print your name.
Your normal signature
Print your name.
Your normal signature
Print your name.
Your normal signature
Print your name.
Your normal signature
Print your name.
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(020) 8871 6016
housesales@wandsworth.gov.uk
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