Rural Housing

Hart is part of the Hampshire Alliance for Rural Affordable Housing (HARAH) For more information on HARAH please visit the website www.harah.org.uk and see the information attached below:

• Rural tour Summer '11
• HARAH Newsletter Winter '10
• HARAH dvd

What is HARAH?

The Hampshire Alliance for Rural Affordable Housing was formed in 2005 to address the need for affordable housing in the villages of Hampshire. Hart District Council is one of the 6 founding rural local authorities in Hampshire.

All partners of HARAH are working together to increase the provision and quality of rural affordable housing.

Why was HARAH set up?

Many people have lived in villages all of their lives but find it difficult to purchase their own property because the cost of buying a property is so high. Increasingly people are having to move away from the village they were brought up in because of the lack of affordable housing.

Rural developments can take a long time to negotiate, find funding for and develop. HARAH was formed to help make this more efficient and to provide a consistently high standard of affordable housing to provide more affordable homes to local people in a shorter timescale.

The Harah website is currently under construction, a link to the site will be available here soon.

Allocation of socially rented properties under a rural exception scheme

To be eligible to be nominated, a household must have their name on the District/Borough Housing Register. It is important to explain that, although people may not be high priority on the Housing Register, in the case of rural housing on exception sites, local connections will be an important criterion in the decision process as well as housing need.