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This letter provides a template for notifying a section 202 review decision to a homeless applicant, where the council is upholding a decision to end the main housing duty because the applicant refused a final offer of accommodation from the housing register which was suitable for them.

In addition to the issue of suitability the letter also addresses the other mandatory issues which must be considered (under subsections (7), (7A), (7F) and (8) of section 193 of the Housing Act 1996), namely:

• Whether the offer qualified as a final offer.
• Whether the applicant was informed of the consequences of refusing before they refused.
• Whether they were informed of their right to request a review of the suitability of the accommodation before they refused.
• Whether the applicant were subject to obligations in relation to their existing accommodation which they could not bring to an end, before being required to take up the offer.