04 AUGUST 2008
NEW PROGRESS HOUSING ASSOCIATION

SELECT MOVE GOES DIGITAL

New Progress Housing Association is at the forefront of a unique new service allowing people who have registered on the SelectMove choice based lettings scheme to access the system via their digital TV or mobile phone.

The service, launched today, can be accessed through Preston Connected TV, the council’s interactive digital TV site. It allows Sky and Virgin customers to access Select Move, a local service allowing people to search for social rented housing throughout South Ribble and Preston.

The service is also available to anyone with a 3-mobile or WAP/GPRS enabled phone.

The Select Move partnership itself was launched in July 2007 and is run by New Progress Housing Association, a subsidiary of Progress Housing Group, along with Community Gateway Association, Preston City Council, Adactus, Eaves Brook and South Ribble Borough Council.

The aim of the service is to make it easier for people to find social housing. The service will make a range of properties available in fortnightly cycles with properties being listed on the first day of the cycle, residents then have nine days to express an interest in up to five properties.

At the end of each fortnightly cycle the successful applicant is selected from those who expressed an interest based on the criteria set out in the allocations policy of the SelectMove partnership.

New Progress Housing Association’s Managing Director, Bernie Keenan, said: “Until now this service has only been available via the Property Shop in Sumner House, Leyland, Select Move shop in Preston’s St John’s shopping centre, local housing offices and the Select Move website.

“By making the service more widely available, all partners within the service are showing their commitment to helping people make their homes in affordable social housing.”

LINK: SELECT MOVE

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