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• Privacy and Cookies

  In accordance with applicable data protection legislation, we are committed to protecting your rights and privacy when you use our services. Livin Housing Limited is registered as a data controller with the Information Commissioner’s Office.

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• Community Spaces

  We own and manage several buildings, and the activities in them to bring more opportunities to tenants and residents in our communities.

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• Benefits

  Find out more about what support we offer to help you understand benefits and check what you may be entitled too.

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• Moving into a new build Home / Your Home / Moving In / Moving into a new build
• Home Safety

  We have a legal responsibility to carry out regular gas, fire and asbestos checks to ensure that your home is safe and efficient.

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• Looking After Your Home

  To apply for permission to alter your home, just get in touch, giving full details of the work you intend to carry out.

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• Applying For A Home

  Find out everything you need to know about filling in your Durham Key Options application and bidding on our properties.

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• My Livin

  My Livin - Frequently asked questions

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• Garages

  We are pleased to be able to offer our tenants and residents the opportunity to rent a garage or garage plot from us, providing you with the additional space you require.

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• My Livin app

  Download the My Livin app now to manage your tenancy from your smartphone. Access exciting new features including trackable repairs, direct messages, live rent account balance information and so much more.

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• Life Cycles

  Our home improvement programme includes life cycle for the key elements of our homes to make sure they are warm, safe, and high-quality. The timescales are based on government guidance however if an element needs to be changed, this may happen sooner.

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• Your Smoke Alarms

  It's important to make sure your fire alarms are in working order. Find out what you can do to make sure your family is safe in your home and what to do if your alarm stops working

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• Repairs

  Everything you need to know about tracking and logging your repairs online.

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• Contact Us

  Get in touch by telephone, email and LiveChat and read our helpful frequently asked questions.

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• Local offers

  We worked with over 400 of our tenants to help shape five pledges known as local offers to improve services that are important to them.

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• New Model Of Shared Ownership

  This government scheme is for those who are renting a new home delivered through the Affordable Homes Programme 2021-2026.

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• Summer Holiday Activities

  Fun-filled local activities available in our communities.

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• Other

  View our most frequently asked questions relating to property alterations, anti-social behaviour, right to buy and right to acquire.

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• Contact Us Form

  We'd love to hear from you. Our friendly Customer Services team will deal with your request within one working day.

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• Transforming Customer Experience and Digital Services

  Providing a brilliant customer experience is in everything that we do, and we are committed to transforming customer services by listening and acting on customer feedback and using customer data to design and deliver modern digital services.

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• Our Lettable Standard

  The Lettable Standard is the minimum standard of repair that you can expect to find when you rent one of our properties.

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• Making Alterations To Your Home

  We recognise that you may wish to make alterations to your home, so it's important that you understand what type of improvements may require our permission or an inspection.

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• Contact Your Housing Adviser

  Your Housing Advisor is on hand to answer any questions or queries you have related to your tenancy, manage any anti-social behaviour issues and provide support to help you sustain your tenancy.

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• Jubilee Fields Estate - Local offers

  Following a survey to our tenants to establish what really matters to them about life on the estate, we further engaged with 13 of the 69 responding tenants to help us shape four pledges. These pledges are known as local offers and we will work collectively upon achieving these going forward.

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• Money Support

  Budgeting and benefits to insurance and energy advice, we can help you make the most out of your money by providing expert financial support.

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• Ways We Listened to and Acted on Your Complaints

  Listening to your feedback and working jointly with you through virtual meetings, one to one sessions and online surveys we have made improvements to our services.

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• Rent Account

  Everything you need to know about accessing your rent account and making a payment online.

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• Western Estate - Local Offers

  In 2021 we engaged with our tenants living on the Western Estate to find out what is important to them. This engagement has allowed us to form Local Offers for the estate which we will be working on with residents and partners until the end of 2024. Collectively we have managed to deliver the following so far.

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• Transforming Customer Experience and Digital Services

  Rising energy prices and a cost of living crisis meant that the services we delivered to support our customers in 2022/23 were needed more than ever. Throughout these challenging times we continued our journey to deliver a brilliant customer experience in everything we do.

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• Supporting Sustainable Tenancies

  We are determined to enable and deliver strong and sustainable places and to deliver this our tenancies must be sustainable. We want you to feel happy living in comfortable and manageable homes.

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• Your Support

  We have a number of support offers to help our tenants live comfortably and feel safe in their homes.

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• Preventing and Tackling Fraud

  We adopt a zero tolerance to fraud, if you suspect someone if committing fraud against us you can report it online.

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• Moving In

  Our handy Moving In guide will help you to get set up and settled in your new home as quickly and easily as possible.

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• Managing Your Tenancy

  The most frequently asked questions relating to managing your tenancy.

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• Universal Credit

  Universal Credit is a single payment for people who are looking for work or on a low income.

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• Increasing energy prices

  From 1 April, households that are currently on a standard variable tariff will see their bills rise when the new energy price cap comes into force. The new cap will be announced in February. It is expected that costs will jump from £1,277 per year for the average household to around £2,000, an increase of more than 50%.

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• Ways We Listened to and Acted on Your Voice

  We use information from satisfaction surveys, data on how services are used and feedback from our InsightXchange sessions to make service improvements that make a real difference. Here is some examples of service improvements your voice has helped us to introduce.

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• Delivering a brilliant customer experience Home / About Us / Annual Report 2020/21 / Delivering a brilliant customer experience
• The Courts, Shildon

  Since 2018 we have been working hard alongside you to give you the homes you love in a place you want to live.

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• Home Improvement Programme

  Our home improvement programme runs each year and aims to make sure that our homes are high in quality and provide a safe and welcoming environment for you to live in.

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• Gas Servicing - Keeping You Safe

  The safety of you and your family is our priority. By carrying out a regular gas service, this helps to maintain higher levels of safety, health, money and also identify potential problems which may occur.

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• Applying for a home Home / Your Support / Renting A Home / Applying for a home
• Report A Repair

  Report and book your repairs and out of hours repairs quickly and easily using our online repairs system, and one of our friendly operatives will visit your home at a time to suit you.

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• Mutual Exchange

  You can register your home for Mutual Exchange through Durham Key Options, allowing you to swap your home with another social housing tenant looking to move into either a smaller or larger home.

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• Aids and Adaptations

  If you, or a family member, are struggling due to a long-term illness, disability or mobility issues we may be able to help.

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• Accessibility

  We are committed to making sure that as many people as possible can access our website and our services, receiving the same level of service regardless of their individual needs.

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• Modern Slavery

  Modern slavery is defined as "... the recruitment, movement, harboring or receiving of children, women or men through the use of force, coercion, abuse of vulnerability, deception or other means for the purpose of exploitation." This encompasses slavery, servitude, forced or compulsory labour and human trafficking.

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• Domestic Abuse

  Find out more about the help and services we have available if you or someone you know is a victim of domestic abuse.

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• Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB)

  We want you to feel settled and safe in your home, but we know that sometimes this is not always the case.

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• Condition of Property Home / Your Support / Condition of Property
• Managing Waste

  We know that it can bit quite confusing, knowing how different types of waste need to be disposed and who will do it. We've outlined who is responsible for your waste and what you need to do it arrange it being removed.

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• Housing Ombudsman

  If you’re not happy with the final response us, you are entitled to make a complaint to the Housing Ombudsman.

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• New Tenants

  Everything you need to know about moving in and getting your gas and electric switched on in your new home.

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• Gas Servicing

  The safety of you and your family is our priority. By law we have to make sure that a gas service is carried out in your home every year.

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• Greener Places Grant

  Apply for a grant to help develop a project that could improve greener spaces, develop greener skills, examine greener energy or deliver a greener life.

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• Safer Places Grant

  Apply for a grant to help develop a project that could resolve incidences of anti-social behaviour and neighbourhood.

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• Healthy Places Grant

  Apply for a grant to help develop a project that could support people of all ages to improve their health and wellbeing.

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• Financially Stronger Places Grant

  Apply for a grant to help develop a project that could support financial inclusion and provide residents with the skills and confidence to manage their own money.

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• Bringing Places Together Grant

  Apply for a small grant of up to £500 to help bring your community together.

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• Yorkhill, Spennymoor

  We worked closely with the local community to create a place that people want to live and work in. Find out more about the success of the York Hill community regeneration project.

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• Report Anti-Social Behaviour

  If you are experiencing anti-social behaviour or wish to report an incident that has occurred, we can help.

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• Anti-Social Behaviour Case Review

  The Anti-Social Behaviour Case Review gives you and your community the right to expect action where an ongoing problem is not being addressed.

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• Improving your community Home / About Us / Annual Report 2020/21 / Improving your community
• Providing Quality Sustainable Homes

  We aim to provide you with safe, warm, high-quality, and sustainable homes.

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• Supporting Sustainable Tenancies

  We are determined to enable and deliver strong and sustainable places and to deliver this our tenancies must be sustainable. We want you to feel happy living in comfortable and manageable homes.

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• Meet the team

  You will have a dedicated team on hand to answer any questions you might have about the project at the Courts:

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• Customer Feedback and Complaints

  You can share your views about Livin to help us improve the services we provide.

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• Making A Complaint

  We always try to provide you with an excellent service but recognise that sometimes things can go wrong. We regard your comments as an opportunity to look at if our services are meeting your needs or not.

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• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

  We are committed to treating customers fairly regardless of race, ethnic origin or nationality, disability (whether mental or physical), age, gender, marital or family status, sexual orientation, or transgender status, and we recognise the benefits of employing a diverse workforce.

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• Renting A Home

  We have set out set out both of our responsibilities during your tenancy, what services we’ll provide and what your rights and responsibilities as a tenant are.

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• Environmental Sustainability Home / Frequently Asked Questions / Environmental Sustainability
• Damp and Mould

  If you've noticed patches of mould in your home, we want to hear from you so we can take steps to fix it.

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• 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.

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• Providing Quality Sustainable Homes

  We aim to provide you with safe, warm, high-quality, and sustainable homes.

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• Transforming Customer Experience and Digital Services

  Rising energy prices and a cost of living crisis meant that the services we delivered to support our customers in 2022/23 were needed more than ever. Throughout these challenging times we continued our journey to deliver a brilliant customer experience in everything we do.

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