The Council uses a banding scheme to prioritise applications.
All housing and transfer applications received for rented and shared ownership accommodation will be assessed and placed in one of 5 bands, A to E. The table below sets out the banding scheme and gives some examples of those applicants who may be eligible to be placed in each band. For more detail please go to the the Council's main website.
| Band | Criteria | Examples |
| Band A | Emergency and high priority | Medical emergency, move to allow major repairs, modernisation or redevelopment, Council or housing association tenants moving to a smaller home and giving up 2 or more bedrooms, making best use of our adapted properties, and agreed management transfers and where exceptional circumstances exist. |
| Band B | Urgent need to move | Households needing to vacate accommodation tied to their jobs, Council or Housing association tenants moving to a smaller home and giving up one bedroom, young people leaving care where rehousing has been agreed, overcrowding by 2 or more bedrooms, move on from some supported housing projects and medical hardship. |
| Band C | Identified housing need | Living in private rented, most homeless households in temporary accommodation, sharing facilities, living in unsanitary or other unsatisfactory housing conditions, overcrowding, applicants of no fixed abode who are engaging with services and elderly people approved for sheltered housing. |
| Band D | Low housing need | Other homeless households with a local connection, tied tenants not required to vacate their accommodation within 6 months, Council and housing association transfer cases not in Bands A, B or C and applicants of no fixed abode or Waverley Single Housing panel cases who are not engaging with services. |
| Band E | All other applicants or no local connection | Other homeless households without a local connection, Council or housing association tenants from outside the Borough and applicants with sufficient financial resources to meet their own housing needs. |