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Rural and Islands Housing Fund: eligibility checklist and form to express interest
Check eligibility and express interest in the Rural Housing Fund.
Check that the Rural and Islands Housing Fund is right for your project.
- is the main applicant a legally constituted body?
- is the project in a rural area as defined in the Fund guidance?
- when completed will the properties be provided at affordable rents?
- will the target tenant group be those who, due to lower than average income, or higher than average rents or house prices in the area, find it difficult to access housing to meet their needs?
- will the properties be affordable for the required period of time as set out in the guidance?
- does the main applicant have appropriate Public Liability Insurance and Employer’s Liability Insurance?
- will/have the local community been involved in development of the proposal?
- is the Local Authority (in their role as the strategic housing authority) supportive of the proposal?
- the project has not received any previous funding from the Affordable Housing Supply Programme via a local authority?
If you answered no to any of these questions you should not apply to the Rural and Islands Housing Fund as your application is unlikely to be approved.
If you have answered yes to the above questions and would like to make an application to the Rural and Islands Housing Fund, please fill in the expression of interest form and submit to rhf@gov.scot.
Please do not submit your pre-application questionnaire to us.
If you are told you can apply you will need to fill out an application form.
