Local Connection definition

Local Connection means a connection with the Town or County as appropriate and demonstrated by that person or a member of their Household to the reasonable satisfaction of the Council:

Local Connection means that the Qualifying Person has one of the following connections to the relevant area:

Local Connection means that you or a person within the household currently lives within the defined area and has lived there for at least 2 years.

Examples of Local Connection in a sentence

• The Council may, where appropriate, in consultation with the relevant housing association, adopt a Local Lettings Scheme whereby individual homes, blocks, streets, estates or neighbourhoods may be allocated according to different criteria to those normally used.Some Local Lettings Schemes limit who can be considered as a tenant, e.g. they may limit allocation on the basis of Local Connection to the town or village where the home is situated.

• Bronze(Limited Local Connection - closed after one year where no bids have been placed) This applies to applicants who meet the eligibility criteria on connection grounds with one of the districts in the Home Choice Plus partnership but no connection to the other partners and do not meet any of the reasonable preference criteria, as set out above, but have a low housing need (please see list in Bronze Plus section above).

• As with all Applicants, in order to qualify, they must meet the Local Connection criteria that are set out at 11.2 above.

• However, subject to those special rules, priority will be given to bids from suitable local Applicants who have a specific mobility need for these homes and who have the relevant Local Connection with the new development.

• Local Connection for Banding PurposesIn order to ensure that Home Choice Plus meets the housing needs of local communities, we will award a higher band to those applicants with a Local Connection to each relevant Local Authority.

More Definitions of Local Connection

Local Connection means a connection demonstrated by a person or member of their household who at the date of an Affordable Dwelling in the relevant Parish being advertised:

Local Connection means: (a) a physical tethered connection; or (b) a local wireless connection that is restricted to a local subnet or localized network (i.e. targeted to within a Customer’s residence).

Local Connection means a connection with the Town or County (Saltash or Cornwall) as appropriate and demonstrated by that person or a member of their Household to the reasonable satisfaction of the Council: A person with a Local Connection with the Town shall take precedence

Local Connection means a local connection (as defined in section 199 of the Housing Xxx 0000 and in accordance with any timescales contained in the Homelessness Code of Guidance for Local Authorities or any replacement therefor), in the following order of priority and with a local connection to: the administrative area of the Council, or if agreed with the Council in writing, the administrative areas of the Council, Tewkesbury Borough Council and/or Gloucester City Council the Gloucestershire administrative area But, if no persons qualify pursuant to i) or ii) above, the occupation must be to a person or persons ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and who is approved in writing by the Council in five (5) Working Days from receipt of their application on to the Homeseeker Plus Scheme or with the Help to Buy Agent as being in need of Affordable Housing and such consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed

Local Connection. Means a person who has for at least 5 years prior to purchasing or renting an affordable dwelling either had their only or principal residence on Anglesey, or had their place of work on Anglesey or a combination of both, or where not resident on Anglesey, they have an offer of employment on Anglesey or they have established links (for example, elderly people who need to move to a locality to be close to relatives).

Local Connection means a prospective occupier of the Affordable Homes

Local Connection. Means (not in priority order): (i) having Family Associations within the relevant geographical area applicable pursuant to paragraph 4 or paragraph 6 of the Third Schedule or (ii) for a continuous period of 3 years out of the last 5 years immediately prior to the date that the Affordable Rented Housing Unit becomes vacant having had their only or principal home within the relevant geographical area applicable pursuant to paragraph 4 or paragraph 6 of the Third Schedule