Newark and Sherwood Homes

DECENT HOMES PROGRAMME UPDATE – SEPTEMBER 2010

Newark and Sherwood Homes along with our partners Bullock and Connaught successfully completed its Decent Homes Programme in March 2010.This has been a tremendous achievement and over 5000 of our properties have benefitted from the extra investment of £49.5 million to achieve 100% compliance with the  Governments Decent Homes Standard. 

Newark and Sherwood Homes are currently formulating plans to enable that it continues to maintain the level of Decency  that we have achieved during the Five Year programme.

The Decent Homes standard is split into four sections and includes:

1. Fitness Standard

Structural stability, provision of w/c, bath or shower, water supply, food preparation area and drainage.

2. State of Repair

Roof, walls chimneys, windows, doors, heating and boiler.

3. Modern Facilities

Age of kitchen and bathroom, kitchen space and layout, bathroom and W/C location.

4. Thermal Comfort

Heating type, wall construction and insulation.

Failure of a single item to meet the requirements of the Fitness Standard section would mean that work is required to the property. However, in other sections of the Decent Home Standard, two or three items would need to fail to trigger work on the property.

For example the Kitchen and Bathroom can be older than the criteria allows, but the Modern Facilities section requires three individual failures within the section to cause the property to fail.

The Following Table Denotes the Total number of Elemental Componants Completed during the Five Year Programme. 

Alternatively if you would like to become involved in monitoring the Performance of the Decent Homes Contract or the formation of working party to consider improvements to Decent Homes or other investment works please telephone 0845 258 5550.

If you would like any further information on the decent homes standard please click on the following link to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister website: www.odpm.gov.uk