LHC Welcomes Decent Homes Success
LHC has greeted the latest Government figures, which show the number of non-decent local authority homes in England has fallen 26 per cent in the last year, as a significant step in the right direction.
The latest update to the Housing Strategy Statistical appendix, welcomed by Housing Minister Grant Shapps, has shown there were 217,100 non-decent local authority homes on 1 April 2011, down from 291,600 the previous year.
As a leading public sector procurement consortium for social housing refurbishment and maintenance, LHC believes its OJEU compliant pre-tendered framework arrangements, play a key role in helping social landlords meet the requirements of Decent Homes quickly and efficiently, helping to reduce non-decent homes.
LHC Director John Skivington commented: “The latest figures are great news for the Government and residents. It demonstrates that even when funding is tight, using framework arrangements is one way to ensure that significant social housing refurbishment work programmes can be undertaken and achieved cost effectively.
“LHC’s latest whole house refurbishment framework arrangement can offer best value to social landlords by taking care of all aspects of refurbishing property. It even includes a work stream dedicated to energy savings measures, allowing local authorities to take advantage of new funding streams, such as the Green Deal, to meet their energy efficiency obligations.”
The latest update to the Housing Strategy Statistical appendix, welcomed by Housing Minister Grant Shapps, has shown there were 217,100 non-decent local authority homes on 1 April 2011, down from 291,600 the previous year.
As a leading public sector procurement consortium for social housing refurbishment and maintenance, LHC believes its OJEU compliant pre-tendered framework arrangements, play a key role in helping social landlords meet the requirements of Decent Homes quickly and efficiently, helping to reduce non-decent homes.
LHC Director John Skivington commented: “The latest figures are great news for the Government and residents. It demonstrates that even when funding is tight, using framework arrangements is one way to ensure that significant social housing refurbishment work programmes can be undertaken and achieved cost effectively.
“LHC’s latest Whole House Refurbishment (WH1) framework arrangement can offer best value to social landlords by taking care of all aspects of refurbishing property. It even includes a work stream dedicated to energy savings measures, allowing local authorities to take advantage of new funding streams, such as the Green Deal, to meet their energy efficiency obligations.”