Homes for Haringey and Haringey Council will be investing nearly £250million to improve council homes in the borough over the next five years under a new Asset Management strategy.
These major works will improve over 13,500 homes in the borough and over 6,500 residents will benefit from the first phase of work, which will start from autumn 2019.
Alongside this, Homes for Haringey have also identified £22.3m of internal works in communal areas, which will be delivered over the next four years.
The new strategy sets out Homes for Haringey’s plans for maintaining and improving homes over the next five years. It takes a wider and longer-term view than was possible under the previous
Decent Homes programme and will also take a more estate-based approach, including ear-marking funding for improved communal areas.
Aman Dalvi, Chair of Homes for Haringey’s Board said:
“Having successfully invested over £286m through the Decent Homes programme, I am delighted to be announcing plans to spend a further £248m in maintaining and improving council homes over the next five years. I am particularly pleased that we are able to include the estate environment and communal areas in our new investment standard.’’
Councillor Emina Ibrahim, Cabinet Member for Housing and Estate Renewal and Deputy Leader of Haringey Council, said:
“We are determined to give our residents the best possible living conditions and this huge investment will go a long way to helping us improve that. We are working to deliver 1000 new council homes by 2022 and this strategy will ensure that we provide the best service.”
One of the key objectives of the new Asset Management Strategy is to ensure that 100% of Homes for Haringey properties meet the Government’s Decent Homes standard.
The new strategy goes further than Decent Homes as it is a five-year investment plan incorporating estate works, fire safety compliance and energy efficiency measures.
Homes for Haringey are working with new consultant partner, Ridge, on the detail of the next two years of external/communal and estate works, for which £80m has been allocated.
Details of the work programme are on the Major Works section of the Homes for Haringey website: www.homesforharingey.org/major-works-search and will continue to be updated.