Apply for housing in the Selby area

Find out how to apply for rented housing in the Selby area and who is eligible.

North Yorkshire Home Choice

Most social and affordable rented housing is allocated through North Yorkshire Home Choice, the choice-based lettings scheme.

This is our way of allocating homes for rent and shared ownership.

To be considered for both social and rented housing, you will need to register and be accepted as being in housing need.

How long it takes to be housed

Each year, we have more than 1,000 housing applications from people with a connection to the Selby area. We can accommodate around 20 per cent of the number of people who apply.

We give the highest priority to people most in need. When you are accepted onto the housing register, we will tell you how we have assessed your housing need. This is broken down into gold, silver and bronze bands. Gold means those people with the highest needs.

The average waiting time for those who were made an offer varied significantly, depending on their needs and area of preference. The more areas and different types of property types you are willing to consider, the better your chance of being re-housed with us.

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Selby housing stock

This table shows the number of homes we have available in different areas across Selby:

Area	Number of homes
Appleton Roebuck	5
Balne	11
Barkston Ash	17
Barlow	7
Bearl	20
Bilbrough	2
Birkin	4
Bolton Percy	2
Brayton	77
Brotherton	53
Burn	13
Burton Salmon	17
Byram	131
Camblesforth	26
Carlton	54
Cawood	26
Chapel Hasslesey	2
Church Fenton	37
Cliffe	25
Colton	1
Criddling Stubbs	4
Drax	11
Eggborough	65
Escrick	1
Fairburn	32
Hambleton	26
Healaugh	3
Hemingbrough	18
Hensall	13
Hillam	1
Hirst Courtney	4
Kelfield	12
Kellington	55
Kirk Smeaton	6
Little Smeaton	8
Long Drax	1
Monk Fryston	32
Newland	2
North Duffield	15
Osgodby	3
Riccall	50
Ryther	3
Saxton	6
Selby	1022
Sherburn in Elmet	331
Skipwith	5
South Duffield	2
South Milford	68
Stillingfleet	13
Stutton	11
Tadcaster	469
Temple Hirst	3
Thorganby	6
Thorpe Willoughby	13
Towton	10
Ulleskelf	19
West Haddlesey	2
Whitley Bridge	32
Wistow	14
Womersley	27

Rural initiative

Under the rural initiative, you will be given priority if you have a local connection to the village where the home is. If no one with a local connection is interested, we will consider anyone who is registered with North Yorkshire Home Choice.

This does not apply to properties in Selby Town and Tadcaster.

We decide that someone has a local connection and they qualify for local lettings if:

they currently live in the village and have lived there for six of the last 12 months
they have lived in the village for at least three out of the last five years
they are employed in the village - employment is defined as permanent full or part-time; not casual or seasonal
they have an essential need to live close to another person, to provide or receive care or support, and that person has lived in the village for the last five years
they have a close family member who has lived in the village for the last five years: mother, father, adult son, adult daughter, adult brother, adult sister
they need to move to the village, when not doing so would cause hardship

Local lettings criteria

In line with the North Yorkshire Home Choice allocations policy, local lettings initiatives may be introduced to respond to local housing need and demand within a specific build or area.

They are used to ensure best management of housing stock supporting rural and city areas regarding demand and affordability and ensuring balanced sustainable communities. Where there is a specific planning agreement, advertised properties will refer to a section 106 planning agreement. This will provide the criteria that must be met to enable a bid for housing advertised.

Qualifying criteria

You will be given priority if you have a local connection to the local parish.

We decide someone has a local connection if:

they currently live in the parish and have lived there for six out of the last 12 months
they have lived within the parish for at least three years out of the last five years
they are employed in the parish - employment is defined as permanent full or part-time, not casual or seasonal
they have an essential need to live close to another person, to provide or receive care or support, and that person has lived in the parish for the last five years
they have a close family member who has lived in the parish for the last 5 years: mother, father, adult son, adult daughter, adult brother, adult sister
they need to move to the parish, when not doing so would cause hardship

If no one with a local connection is interested, we will consider people with a connection to the wider Selby area before the whole North Yorkshire Home Choice partnership.