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Cabinet considered the proposed Housing Estates Strategy that was drafted in part from the feedback received from Council tenants. Residents told Council that the condition of Council estates was very important to them. The Tenant and Leaseholder Services had used resident feedback from customer satisfaction surveys and two focus groups to develop these documents. The strategy was the vision they had for the estates and it described four objectives that they believed would enhance the Council estates as a place to live.
These were to:
The strategy also described:
An estate policy was a regulatory requirement. It applied the rules around how the strategic objectives would be delivered, letting all stakeholders know the part they play and their responsibilities. The estate standard let Council tenants know what work the Council would do to maintain and take care of the communal areas in and around its blocks of flats. This work included, communal cleaning, communal repairs, grounds maintenance and car parks. It let residents know what they were responsible for including the storage of belongings in communal areas and the disposal of refuse.
Councillor Jill Bayford proposed, Councillor Kup seconded and Cabinet the following:
1. To approve the adoption of the Housing Estates Strategy, Policy and Standard;
2. To give delegated authority to the Acting Corporate Director of Place in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Housing to execute minor amendments to the documents.
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Sally O’Sullivan, Tenant and Leaseholder Services Manager introduced the report and made the following comments:
Members made comments as follows:
Sally O’Sullivan and Bob Porter, Corporate Director of Place responded to comments from Members as follows: