Supporting Sustainable Places
We are determined to level up our places. We strive to support and deliver strong and sustainable places, that are greener and that support people and partners to thrive.
Jubilee Fields Estate, Shildon residents have worked with us to identify the need to improve and diversify our housing offer to enable older and vulnerable residents and their families to remain in a home they love and a place they are proud to live. We invested £9M to regenerate two key areas of the estate. Our transformational approach to the Courts will provide a mixture of two, three and four bed homes with gardens and private parking, increasing energy efficiency and offering accessible accommodation for larger families and those with mobility issues. Within the wider estate we are in the process of replacing low demand one-bedroom flats with 15 new energy efficient bungalows which have private parking and gardens.
Working with our partners we supported the Whitworth Park Academy in Spennymoor to secure over £1.7M of investment to enable the construction of a new 3G 11-a-side Football training facility within the grounds of the school giving hundreds of local residents to access high quality sustainable facilities all year round improving their health, wellbeing and social inclusion.
Also, through our strong partnership networks we have collectively supported over 3,000 of you, our tenants to help sustain your tenancy whilst struggling with the ‘cost of living’ crisis. We have delivered and enabled a variety of interventions including access to early years benefits and equipment, small household good loans, energy saving advice, support to get to work through the wheels to work scooter scheme as well as supporting people into work.
Carry out regular inspections of estates in our communities to make sure our homes and properties are maintained to a suitable standard. More local offers.
We will carry out regular inspections of estates in our communities to make sure the outside of our homes and the surrounding areas are clean and tidy. More local offers.
Note: Social Value is a financial measurement of the benefits of the work we do, the services we provide and the programmes we deliver for people and communities.
We supported internal and external partners to access £1,836,730 by providing £247,000 matched funding through our community regeneration budget. 53 projects where supported ranging from debt support to improving open spaces and from warm spaces to school holiday support.
We listened
100 households on the Western Estate in Newton Aycliffe engaged in a customer conversation, commissioned through the Western Community Partnership and seeking feedback on residents’ quality of life on the estate.
We acted
The key outcomes have been agreed with the community and have formed the 2023/25 Western Community Partnership Action Plan which we Chair.
We listened
We worked with a group of young people from Approach Too and Ferryhill School Pupil Voice who told us they were concerned about litter and fly-tipping in Ferryhill. They went on to highlight a solution which would include young people doing monthly litter picks.
We acted
We loved the enthusiasm and commitment from this group and through our Community Regeneration Fund have resourced the group to deliver this across a twelve-month period with support from Livin Futures, Durham County Council’s Civic Pride and Ferryhill Town Council.
