Barnet Homes manages three different kinds of tenancies –
introductory tenancies,
secure tenancies, and
non-secure tenancies.
Introductory tenancies
When you first become a Barnet Council tenant you will have an introductory tenancy for a trial period of one year. This type of tenancy gives you fewer rights than a secure tenancy and less security.
An introductory tenancy can be ended more swiftly by Barnet Homes, so it’s important to keep to your tenancy conditions from the start.
Our tenancy conditions state that tenants must have consideration for those
living around them, pay their rent on time, look after their home, and keep to all other tenancy conditions.
You can find more information in our
guide to introductory tenancies.
Your introductory tenancy will automatically become a secure tenancy after 12 months unless:
• legal action has started to end your tenancy
• Barnet Homes has extended your introductory tenancy because you have not kept its conditions.
Secure tenancies
Your introductory tenancy will automatically become a secure tenancy after a year, unless:
• possession proceedings have been taken against you
• your introductory tenancy has been extended.
As a secure tenant you have the right to stay in your home for as long as you choose, so long as you keep to the conditions set out in your tenancy agreement.
We will only seek possession of your property if you give us good reason to do so – for example if you:
• do not pay your rent on time, or do not pay it at all
• provide false information on your housing application
• harass other people, or allow your visitors to do so
• cause a nuisance, or allow your visitors to do so
• abandon your home or live permanently at another address
• use your home for immoral or illegal purposes
• break any other conditions of your tenancy agreement.
You can find a copy of a secure tenancy agreement
here.
Non-secure tenancies
We grant non-secure tenancies to new tenants moving into some of our homes which will be affected by plans for regeneration at Grahame Park, Dollis Valley, West Hendon and Stonegrove and Spur Road estates.
A non-secure tenancy is a weekly tenancy, which can be ended by giving four weeks notice and then obtaining an automatic possession order from the court.