Return your completed application to the Right to Buy team with supporting personal identification for all applicants.

We will send a RTB2 notice within four weeks of receiving your RTB1 form. We will tell you that either:

• We are admitting your application, giving you the right to buy your home

• We are denying your application if you do not have the right to buy your home, giving you the reason why we have turned your application down.

We will carry out a free property valuation to work out the value of your property. We will also carry out an energy performance inspection to rate how energy efficient your home is. This will help you decide if you want to buy your home.

After your property valuation, we will send you an offer notice, called a section 125 notice. The offer notice will tell you the price you will have to pay and the conditions of the sale. We will send you this within either:

• Eight weeks if you are buying a freehold property (normally a house)

• Twelve weeks if you are buying a leasehold property (normally a flat or maisonette).

You must return your acceptance form within twelve weeks of you receiving your offer notice and include the name and address of your solicitor.

If you do not, we will send you a notice giving you another twenty-eight days to accept. If you do not contact us, we will assume that you no longer want to buy your home.

If you are unhappy with the price you have to pay for the property, you can appeal to the District Valuer. You must do this within twelve weeks of receiving your offer notice by writing to our Right to Buy team.

If you do not agree with the District Valuer’s valuation you can request a Review Notice. Your Landlord and District Valuer can do this also. You must make your request within 28 days of receiving the Section 128 Notice. The review price the District Valuer puts on the property will be the final price.

Once the legal documentation is ready it will be sent to your solicitor. If you do not give us your solicitor's details, the legal documents will be sent to you.

We will then send you a notice giving you fifty-six days to complete the purchase.

If the purchase is still not complete, a second fifty-six day notice will be sent. At the end of this period, if the purchase is still not complete, we will withdraw your application to buy your home.

If you decide you no longer want to buy your home you can withdraw at any point up to the day of completion.

If we do not meet the timescales, you should ask us for a RTB6 form. This is an initial notice of delay form.

We will respond within one calendar month after we receive your initial notice of delay form.

If you have sent us the RTB6 form at the wrong time and we are not holding up the sale, we will send you a RTB7 form. This explains why you shouldn’t have sent the RTB6 at that time.

If we do not proceed within one calendar month, you should ask us for the RTB8 form. This is an operative notice of delay where we have failed to keep to the timescales.