Our improvement plans for your home
To ensure that your home remains in a good state of repair; has modern facilities such as nice kitchens and bathrooms; and has efficient heating, we need to plan for the immediate and long-term future. This is our programme of Planned Maintenance.
The Decent Homes Standard gives us some guidance,(and in some areas we aim to be better than this standard), and our Home Condition Survey provides us with an order of priority for getting the work done.
As a general rule, we tend to adopt a policy of “what we do to one home, we will do to all the homes in the same neighbourhood”.
For example, if the roof of one home needs re-tiling, then all the homes in the same street, will need re-tiling. It makes sense, as the homes were all probably built at about the same time and the condition of the roofs will be about the same.
A similar approach is adopted for doors, windows, fascias, soffits, rainwater goods, re-wires, kitchens, bathrooms, heating. Different elements have different life expectancies. A kitchen may last 15 years; a bathroom may last 30 years. So in a typical house, different things need replacing at different intervals and this is why we “stage” the work according to when it needs renewing.
We have a 30 year plan for all of our homes. You can download the improvement programmes for 2009/10 and for 2010/2011 by clicking the links below.
Click here for the Planned Maintenance - Improvement Programme for 2009/2010
Click here for the Planned Maintenance - Improvement Programme for 2010/2011
