Doncaster HomeChoice

Medical Housing Need

If you have a physical, sensory or mental health condition which means you cannot manage in your home and are unable to resolve your situation, you can apply for medical priority by completing our Medical Self-Assessment.

Alongside the medical form, you will need to provide: 

• A patient summary, available from your GP free of charge (confirming conditions and current prescribed medication) 
• Proof of disability benefits, if applicable
• Hospital or clinic letters, if applicable

The assessment may be over the telephone, or a home visit by the Occupational Therapist to further assess your needs. If you are a current St Leger tenant, you will be assessed by our Occupational Therapist. Applicants who are homeowners or tenants of other housing associations or landlords will be referred to City of Doncaster Council for further assessment, as will children.  

If you are assessed as needing a certain property type, this might limit your chances of being re-housed as is dependent on availability in your areas of choice. 

Applicants living outside of Doncaster
If you currently live outside the City of Doncaster and have a medical need for rehousing, you will need to provide supporting information to us. If you need an adapted property including a level access shower or wet room, you will need to contact your local authority to request an Occupational Therapist Assessment for rehousing to Doncaster. This needs to include whether you need:

• A ground floor property or property with lift access
• Level access to the property or the maximum number of stairs you can access
• Level access/Wet Room, or can manage a shower over the bath safely
• Any further adaptations required e.g. Wheelchair Accessible Property, etc.

You should provide us with copy of your Occupational Therapist’s report once completed. We will be unable to assess you medically until a copy of your assessment has been received.

Adapted properties  

We advertise some adapted properties depending on their facilities - please ensure you read the full details page on the advert before you bid to make sure the adaptations will be suitable for you.

Please note we will not be able to offer a property to you if it is deemed unsuitable for your assessed needs.  

If you are assessed by an Occupational Therapist as needing a property with adaptations you may be placed onto City of Doncaster Council’s Accessible Housing Register (AHR), where you will be considered with other identified applicants for adapted properties which meet your needs in your area of choice. Adapted properties will be advertised with priority to AHR nominations and have a reserved bidding list.

Please note, if you are placed on the AHR, you may be advised that you do not need to bid on properties advertised. 

Although both Doncaster HomeChoice and Housing Options work under StLegerHomes, they are two different teams. 

HomeChoice deals with advertising and allocating council and housing association properties, whereas Housing Options can offer support for individuals facing homelessness. 

If you are at threat, or facing, homelessness you should contact Housing Options first. Please press here for more information. 

If you apply to the housing register due to disrepair in your home, e.g. faulty wiring or lack of heating, you will need to provide details which we will send over to the City of Doncaster Council's Housing Enforcement. They will then work with you and your landlord to resolve them. 

If the Housing Enforcement Team declares the property as Category 1 Hazard and confirms this with us, only then will Gold banding be awarded. Properties of different category hazards will not be awarded a priority banding. 

As part of an overcrowding assessment, you will need to provide proof of residence of all household members and information about the size of your property etc. 

After we have completed the assessment, if you are classed as overcrowded only then can we award priority banding. If overcrowding cannot be proven then priority will not be given. 

• Homeless applicants registered with Housing Options under full duty 

• Resettlement pathway persons who do not need the level of support with previous provider. Priority will be backdated to reflect time in pathway.  

• Doncaster borough residents whose house has been approved for demolition or clearance 

• Tenants vacating adapted properties with high physical needs 

• Property has been assessed as uninhabitable, and you cannot resolve your housing need 

• Applicants ready for release from hospital, but with medically unsuitable accommodation to go back to  

• Armed Forces leavers of five years or less (including bereaved families, wives or civil partners) 

• Foster carers, where accommodation is no longer suitable and you cannot resolve this yourself.

• Property overcrowded by two or more bedrooms 

• Property has been assessed as category 1 hazard by Environmental Health 

• Persons in critical need for re-housing due to medical or welfare reasons 

• Requirement to move to a particular area due to care support needs 

• In a service or tied tenancy and it is coming to an end 

• Doncaster care leavers under 25 years of age 

• Homeless applicants who have been assessed as having a priority need.  

• City of Doncaster Council tenants under-occupying their current home by one bedroom and requesting to move 

• Tenants vacating adapted properties 

• Overcrowding by one bedroom 

• Taking up a particular employment, education or training opportunity e.g you have been offered a high-needs school, but you are unable to accept it as you have no means to live in the area 

• Applicants in substantial need for rehousing due to medical or welfare reasons 

• Homeless applicants assessed with no priority need 

• City of Doncaster Council tenants vacating adapted properties where the adaptations are no longer needed. 

General Band - registration date applies 

• Applicants who own, or have a financial interest, a property and have equity of less than £120,000
• This includes applicants pending an assessment

Applicants who are City of Doncaster Council tenants, who have lived in their property for over 12 months and do not have an assessed priority need to move. If there is a housing need, City of Doncaster Council tenants will be assessed in the same way as all customers.