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Exceeding local expectations

Maintaining our properties

We are committed to investment in maintaining our properties to ensure our
residents feel proud of where they live.

100% £7.1m

of our properties investment in repairing,
have a current gas maintaining and
certificate improving our homes

17,159 94% 1,600 100%

routine repairs repairs stock condition decent
completed satisfaction surveys carried out homes

The active management of our portfolio remains safety working closely with Savills, our specialist
an important component of our day-to-day partner, ensuring the safety of all our resident’s
activities. We have a rolling lifecycle 30-year homes. Our commitment to the compliance of our
asset management programme to ensure the properties is broader than just fire safety with gas
long-term sustainability and enhancement to our and electrical checks 100% complete at the end of
housing stock. This year we strengthened our Asset the year, together with other safety checks such as
Management capabilities with the appointment of legionella, asbestos and alarm systems - again all
Steven Brookfield as director. During the year, as 100% complete at the end of the year.
part of our active management strategy. We spent
over £1m as part of our ongoing commitment to fire

“Housing Solutions are particularly good at managing fire risk
and they are one of the best clients when benchmarked.”

John Herbison, Fire Safety Consultant, Savills

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