Housing Options  -  Looking for a new home

• Homelessness
• Homelessness decisions and your rights 
• Temporary accommodation
• Housing organisations 
• Help finding a place to live
• Shared Ownership
• Housing strategies & key documents
• Contact: 01843 577277

Council tenants

• Applying for council housing
• Housing repairs
• paying your rent
• Rent arrears 
• Tenant consultation
• Garage lettings 
• Council Housing transfers 
• Right To Buy
• Leaseholders
• Housing strategies & key documents 
• Your Say newsletter

Housing Improvement

• Private sector housing
• Housing conditions
• Disabled Facilities Grants
• Multiple occupancy homes  
• Empty property initiative
• Energy efficiency
• Grants
• Housing organisations
• Housing strategies & key documents
• Contact: 01843 577437

Housing renewal

• Renewal area Cliftonville West 
• Renewal area Margate Central
• Contact: 01843 577748

Housing leaflets

• At risk of being homeless (pdf)
• Help to find a place to live (pdf)
• Homeless decisions - Yr Rights (pdf)
• Housing transfers (pdf)
• Shared Ownership (pdf)
• Temporary accommodation (pdf)

• Housing strategies & key documents

Translation and other formats

The council has access to translation services at the first point of contact.  Publications and forms can be translated on request.  Please telephone 577000, or visit the council's Gateway Plus centre, adjacent the council offices, Cecil Street, Margate.

What's new

• Kent Homechoice Freesheets.  These free papers showing social housing vacancies for you to bid for are being phased out from April.  Find out about new ways to bid from the Kent Homechoice web site.
• Community Services Service Plan 2008-9 shows how the Service contributes to delivering council priorities.
• Margate Renewal Study (external link)