Temporary accommodation

We aim to complete our homeless investigations within 33 days and notify you of our decision and whether a full accommodation duty is owed to you.

At this point if you are owed the full duty and you have paid your accommodation charges we will reconsider the temporary accommodation in which you have been placed to ensure it is suitable and reasonable for you to occupy. If you refuse the accommodation offered we will discharge our duty and ask you to leave.

If we write to you to advise that the council does not owe you a full homelessness duty because you are not eligible, not in a priority need category or because you became homeless intentionally, no continuing temporary accommodation duty will be owed. We will provide you with advice and assistance to secure other accommodation and write to you providing you with the date when you must leave the accommodation.