Council House successtion

stmoritz1960

Hi all, we have been living with my mum for about 9 years now, we moved into keep her company and help her out, she's now 88. Because mum changed the housing agreement, when my dad died 18 years ago, she cannot add me to this agreement. However I wondered if we got a mutual exchange, would she have to sign a new agreement and could I then be added onto it? We are in Essex, thank you.

00ec25

check your own council website, but i somehow doubt it given that on the Islington website it expressly says you cannot and it is such an obvious ploy that they have rightly closed that loophole.

"People who become Islington tenants following a mutual exchange are only a successor in their new tenancy if they were a successor in their old tenancy."
https://www.islington.gov.uk/housing/council-tenant-services/your-tenancy/tenancy-succession

whether that stems from the law controlling succession or merely from council policy is something you can research yourself

AdrianC

In exchanging a property, you are only changing the property that's being rented. The rest of the conditions around the tenancy remain the same.

So if you were ineligible to be added to the tenancy before, you will be ineligible after.