Welcome to homehunt® Gigha.
We all need homes that are comfortable, affordable and appropriate to our own needs. To this end the Isle of Gigha Heritage Trust is striving to improve all Trust owned housing, to provide new houses to rent through our partners Fyne Homes Housing Association and to ensure that there are opportunities for households to build their own homes should they so wish.
We also realise that the demand for Trust rented housing will always exceed supply and in these circumstances it is essential that we have a fair, transparent and easily understood system of allocating houses, whenever they become available.
homehunt® Gigha provides just such a system. It is simple and effective yet easy to understand. There are no waiting lists and no points and you only apply for the house that you want. All vacancies are advertised and the criteria by which houses are allocated have been democratically agreed by the Trust membership.
This leaflet explains how homehunt® Gigha works and advises how you can apply for a Trust house, whether you are an existing or prospective tenant.
Good luck in your search for a new home.
Sonas is àdh ag amharc air son bhur dachaidh ùr.
Willie McSporran
Chairman
Isle of Gigha Heritage Trust
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Registering
You need to register with us before you can apply for a house - but registration is a very quick and easy process.
All we need is your name, address and date of birth, and the names and dates of birth of everyone who will move with you, and we ask you to sign a few simple statements to confirm that you are eligible for housing under our scheme.
Registration is completed 'whilst you wait' at the Trusts office (or you can apply by post, telephone, or online, although these methods will take longer as we will post out a short form for you to sign and return).
This booklet includes information about how to apply for advertised houses, and forms to register for Priority Passes (which are explained later on in this leaflet).
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Applying
Once registered you can apply for any property that is advertised (as long as the property is suitable - e.g. it would not result in overcrowding).
When you see an advert for a property you are interested in, you should apply for it by telling us your registration number and the property's address. You can do this in person at the Trusts office, or by phone, by post, or online - but you must do this before the closing date and time specified in the advert.
You can apply for as many advertised properties as you wish at any one time. However, if you qualify for more than one offer at the same time, we will assume that the property you apply for first is your first choice, and so on, in the order you chose to apply. If you qualify for an offer on one house, we will disregard any later applications you have made, so the order in which you apply could be very important to you.
Similarly, if there is nothing you like available, or perhaps it is not a convenient time to move, there is no need to apply. If you haven't applied for aproperty for a year, we'll write and check that you still want to remain registered with us.
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Downloadable homehunt Guide
You can find all the information stated above and more by viewing or downloading the following file: GighaGuide.pdf 198kb
To view this file, you may need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader version 5 or above, it is freely available for use and can be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com
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Data Protection:
homehunt® Gigha service is operated by the Isle of Gigha Heritage Trust Limited, the data controller, whose registered office is at Gigha Hotel, Isle of Gigha, Argyll PA41 7AA. Information given by you in using the service, or obtainined by the Trust from a third party in accordance with the Trust's stated homehunt policy that is relevant to your application, will be held by the Trust and used solely for the purposes of operating the Trusts homehunt policy, and for providing the trust with statistical information relevant to the Trusts business development, service improvement or reporting of its activity as a business. The Trust will not disclose any information without your written consent, unless it is required to do so by law, or by its regulators. |
