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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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• Providing Quality Sustainable Homes

  Our tenants expect to live in homes that are safe, warm, high quality and sustainable. We are committed to providing homes that are desirable and that our tenants are proud to live in. Our Providing Quality Sustainable Homes Strategy sets out 3 key objectives and 49 key actions to deliver over the next 3 years.

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• Building and Acquiring Sustainable Homes

  Building and Acquiring Sustainable Homes is our strategy map to delivering new, high quality, sustainable homes, which meet the needs of our tenants, in the places they choose to live. Our strategy sets out three objectives and 27 key actions to deliver over the next three years.

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• Moving into a new build Home / Your Home / Moving In / Moving into a new build
• Supporting Sustainable Tenancies Home / About Us / Plan A 2022-2025 / Supporting Sustainable Tenancies
• 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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• Planet A

  We are in a climate emergency - there’s no Planet B! Planet A is our strategy map to a greener future, ensuring we act now to create environmentally sustainable futures for generations to come. Our strategy sets out seven objectives and 17 key actions to deliver over the next three years.

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• Supporting Sustainable Places

  We are determined to enable and deliver strong and sustainable places, that are greener and that support people and partners to thrive. We are a unique anchor in local communities that can bring about amazing transformation through physical regeneration, supplying new affordable homes, getting people into employment and bringing communities together.

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• Our Plan A Priorities Home / About Us / Plan A 2022-2025 / Our Plan A Priorities
• Background

  Plan A is our map to a better future, previously business strategy.

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• Transforming Customer Experience and Digital Services

  Providing a brilliant customer experience is in everything that we do and this strategy sets out how we will transform customer services and business efficiency through listening and acting on customer feedback, using data well and providing modern digital services.

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• Plan A 2022-2025

  Plan A is our map to a better future, previously business strategy. (Governance)

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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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• 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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• 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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• Your Home

  Everything you need to know about reporting your repairs, paying your rent, moving in, looking after your home, ending your tenancy and managing your tenancy 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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• 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
• Providing Quality Sustainable Homes

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

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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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• Environmental Sustainability

  We are committed to taking positive climate and ecological action through our Planet A Strategy. We are working hard to embed environmental sustainability into all our operations to reduce our environmental impacts and carbon emissions.

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• Applying for a home Home / Your Support / Renting A Home / Applying for a home
• About Us

  We are an award winning not for profit housing association based in County Durham. We offer more than just a home. We help improve the lives of the people living in our homes and in our communities. Read our Plan A, financial statements, annual report, value for money self assessment. Find out our roles and responsibilities.

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• Building and Acquiring Sustainable Homes

  We aim to build and buy new homes in the right locations within our local area to ensure a mix of much needed homes that are designed to suit a range of needs.

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• Building and Acquiring Sustainable Homes

  We aim to build and buy new homes in the right locations within our local area to ensure a mix of much needed homes that are designed to suit a range of needs.

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

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

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• Building and Acquiring Sustainable Homes

  We aim to build and buy the right new homes in the right locations in our local area to ensure a mix of much needed homes designed to suit a range of needs.

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• Keeping you cool in your home

  Temperatures over the coming days are set to be well above average reaching 30 degrees by the middle of next week.  We have some handy tips to keep you and your home cool.

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• Previous Improvements and Regeneration Projects

  We work with you and our partners to improve the quality of life in the place in which you live. We work collectively to make the places you live in more sustainable including your homes, the land around them and the facilities and services that serve them. Find out more about the successful improvement projects we have completed in the past.

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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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• Building and acquiring new homes Home / About Us / Annual Report 2020/21 / Building and acquiring new homes
• 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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• 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 Us

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

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• Performance

  Our Performance Management Framework aims to ensure we deliver efficient and effective services that are continually improved and aligned to Plan A – our Business Strategy.

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• Greener Livin

  An Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) shows how energy efficient your property is by giving it a rating between A and G, with A being very energy efficient and G being not very energy efficient.

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• Planet A

  This year we worked with a consortium of partners in the North East and Yorkshire and bid successfully for £1.1m of Government funding, through the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero which we matched to support improvements to the energy efficiency of our tenants homes.

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• Home

  Local housing provider managing and letting over 8,400 homes in County Durham, Spennymoor, Chilton, Ferryhill, Newton Aycliffe, Trimdon, Sedgefield. Provide great homes to rent, regenerating communities and building new homes for tenants.

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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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• Anti-social behaviour – Legal powers

  Parts 1 to 4 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 provide six powers for use by local agencies, summarised in the table below. Taken together, these options provide a broad enforcement regime with local partners in most circumstances.

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• Supporting your tenancy Home / About Us / Annual Report 2020/21 / Supporting your tenancy
• 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 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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• How We Treat Damp and Mould Home / Your Home / Looking After Your Home / Damp and Mould / How We Treat Damp and Mould
• Types of Damp

  Rising damp, penetrating damp and condensation are the three most common types of damp in residential 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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• Annual Report 2023/24

  Welcome to the 2023/24 Annual Report for you, our tenants. I am delighted to be able to share the highlights from what has been a challenging time for us all.

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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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• 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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• Rent to buy

  Rent to Buy is a government designed scheme that allows working households to rent a home at 20% below the open market rent (Intermediate rent). This can provide you with the opportunity to save for a deposit to go on and purchase your home in the future.

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• Work And Training Support

  Livin Futures can help you to improve your CV, develop your skills and find a job that is right for you.

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• Our People

  Meet our Leadership Team made up of Alan Boddy, Sean Brodie, Helen Darby, Graham Darby and Paul Stephens.

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• Choice Based Lettings

  Our homes in Darlington, Hartlepool and Stockton are allocated through different Choice Based Lettings systems to ones located in County Durham. If you’d like to apply for one of our homes in these areas, you must apply through the correct system, we cannot accept applications directly.

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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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• 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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• Travellers Green, Newton Aycliffe

  We worked with the community to transform this area into a beautiful, high quality, green space surrounded by new affordable energy efficient homes.

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• Delivering a brilliant customer experience Home / About Us / Annual Report 2020/21 / Delivering a brilliant customer experience
• 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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• 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.

  Home / About Us / Annual Report 2022/23 / Supporting Sustainable Places
• Repairs

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

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• Your Home Documents Home / Your Support / Your Documents / Your Home Documents
• Tenant Satisfaction Measures

  The Regulator for Social Housings (RSH) has introduced a new suite of performance measures that all registered providers and local authorities with housing stock must collect data for from 1 April 2023.

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• 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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• 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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• What you can do to help?

  There are many different actions that you can take to reduce your environmental impact, run a greener home, and live in a greener way.

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• Planet A

  This year we worked with a consortium of partners in the North East and Yorkshire and bid successfully for £1.1m of Government funding, through the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero which we matched to support improvements to the energy efficiency of our tenants homes.

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• 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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• 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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• Your Community

  We work closely with tenants, residents, local community groups and a variety of other partners to build safe and stronger places for people to live, work and play.

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• Reinventing Homes Report

  We partnered with the CIH and ITN to report on how effective regeneration can transform communities by creating safe, warm, affordable, and sustainable homes, whilst enhancing wellbeing.

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• Newton Aycliffe West Improvements

  Find out more about the Western Estate community regeneration project at Newton Aycliffe.

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• Getting Involved

  Find out how you can get involved and give feedback to help us improve our services.

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• Find Us On Social Media

  We provide you with the information you need to be keep you up to date on changes in our services, latest news, job vacancies, community activities and lots more.

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• Improving your community Home / About Us / Annual Report 2020/21 / Improving your community
• Planet A

  We are committed to making our homes and places more sustainable and energy efficient, helping you to live greener lives.

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• Supporting Sustainable Places

  We are committed to enabling and delivering strong and sustainable places, that support people to thrive.

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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 track the sustainability of our tenancies and this helps us to focus our support interventions where needed.

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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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• Customer Feedback and Complaints

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

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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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• Homes England Funding

  Homes England is the non-departmental public body that funds new affordable housing in England. It was founded on 1 January 2018 to replace the Homes and Communities Agency.

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• North East Housing Partnership

  The North East Housing Partnership brings together social housing providers from around the North East to work collectively to achieve shared goals to improve communities and to deliver more social housing.

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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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• 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.

  Home / About Us / Annual Report 2023/24 / Supporting Sustainable Places
• Finance Home / About Us / Annual Report 2023/24 / Finance
• 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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• 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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• Tenancy visits Home / Your Support / Tenancy visits
• Our Board

  Meet our Board members and view the committee make up.

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• Ending Your Tenancy

  If the time has come to end your tenancy, you can let us know by completing our online form.

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• Customer Feedback

  Find out how you can give feedback and get involved to help us improve our services.

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• Hear from our people

  We have some fantastic people at team Livin with amazing stories about their career journeys.

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• Finance Home / About Us / Annual Report 2020/21 / Finance
• 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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• Home Safety Report Criteria Home / Your Home / Home Safety / Home Safety Report Criteria
• Opportunities For Young People

  Looking for your next opportunity? Livin Futures can help you find your next step.

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• Annual Report 2020/21 Home / About Us / Annual Report 2020/21
• Annual Report 2021/22

  Welcome to the 2021/22 annual report for you, our tenants.   We are proud to share highlights of how, despite the incredibly challenging economic conditions we continue to face as we emerge from the pandemic, we have been able to support you.

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• Annual Report 2022/23

  Welcome to the 2022/23 Annual Report for you, our tenants. I am delighted to be able to share the highlights from what has been a challenging time for us all.

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• Your Summarised Customer Policies

  You will find our policies here. Affordable Home Ownership Aids and Adaptations Anti-fraud, Bribery and Corruption Anti-Social Behaviour Arrears Management Asbestos CCTV Complaints, Compliments and Feedback Condition of Property Customer Voice and Engagement Customer Vulnerability Damp and Mould Development Domestic Abuse Electrical Safety Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

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• Our Policies

  You will find our policies here. Policies: Affordable Home Ownership Aids and Adaptations Anti-fraud, Bribery and Corruption Anti Social Behaviour Arrears Management Asbestos Asset Management CCTV Commercial Property Management Complaints, Compliments and Feedback Condition of Property Customer Voice Customer Vulnerability Damp and Mould Development Domestic Abuse

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• Uploading your documents to Durham Key Options

  Find out in our short video how you upload your documents to Durham Key Options.

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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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• Summer Holiday Activities

  Fun-filled local activities available in our communities.

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• Jubilee Fields Estate, Shildon

  We have been working together with the community since 2018 to improve the quality of life on the estate. We are committed to this long-term and will listen to and act with those residents who wish to get involved.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Make Things Right: Social housing complaints campaign

  The Government recently launched the ‘Make Things Right’ campaign, which is designed to empower residents in making their voices heard when they have problems with their home and help raise awareness amongst social housing residents for how they can make a complaint.

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• Performance and Service Improvement Report Home / Customer Feedback and Complaints / Performance and Service Improvement Report
• Ways We're Helping You

  Have a read of some of our customer's stories and find out about all the different ways we're helping them get back into work and training.

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• Our 2023/24 Lettings Data

  The Housing Ombudsman now require us to publish our lettings data to keep you informed on the lettings activity in your area. Find the lettings data for your area below.

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• Finance Home / About Us / Annual Report 2021/22 / Finance
• Finance Home / About Us / Annual Report 2022/23 / Finance
• Apprenticeship Support

  Our Livin Futures team can support you into an apprenticeship role by helping you to find local vacancies, improving your job hunting skills, building a strong CV and interview preparation.

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• Almond Court flats

  Keep up to date with some of the key dates for Almond Court throughout the regeneration project.

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• Laurel Court

  Keep up to date with some of the key dates for Laurel Court throughout the regeneration project.

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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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• Managing Condensation Home / Your Home / Looking After Your Home / Damp and Mould / Managing Condensation
• 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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• Search Results

  Browse our site using our on-site search to find the page you're looking for.

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• Third Party Authorisation

  Find out if you're eligible to apply for Third Party Authorisation to help someone with managing their tenancy.

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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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• Condition of Property Home / Your Support / Condition of Property
• Your Documents

  Take a look at some of our guides, policies, leaflets and other helpful documents.

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• Careers With Us

  Are you ready to be part of something great? We need people who are passionate about improving lives and communities. Choose a career with us and benefit from our learning and development opportunities and excellent staff rewards.

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• 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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• Managing Your Tenancy

  The most frequently asked questions relating to managing your tenancy.

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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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• 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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• The Courts Home / Frequently Asked Questions / The Courts
• My Livin

  My Livin - Frequently asked questions

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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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• 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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• Skills Foundations

  Are you out of work or looking to gain new skills? Our Skills Foundations can provide you with the skills to put you on a new career path.

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• Volunteering And Work Experience

  We can help you gain new skills by putting you forward for voluntary work as well as organising work experience.

  Home / Your Support / Work And Training Support / Volunteering And Work Experience
• Local Vacancies

  We have a selection of hand-picked jobs available within our communities we can help you apply and prepare for.

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• Request For Work And Training Support

  Looking to get into employment? We can help you to improve your CV, develop your skills and find a job that is right for you.

  Home / Your Support / Work And Training Support / Request For Work And Training Support
• Rent is changing for all tenants

  We follow rules set by the government when we calculate annual changes to your rent.  Our teams can support you to plan for these upcoming changes.

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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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• 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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• Our Service Standard Performance Home / About Us / Performance / Our Service Standard Performance
• 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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• Your User Manuals Home / Your Support / Your Documents / Your User Manuals
• Lilac Court flats

  Keep up to date with some of the key dates for Lilac Court throughout the regeneration project.

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• Aspen Court

  Keep up to date with some of the key dates for Aspen Court throughout the regeneration project.

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• Spruce Court

  Keep up to date with some of the key dates for Spruce Court throughout the regeneration project.

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• Our sustainability roadmap Home / About Us / Environmental Sustainability / Our sustainability roadmap
• Your Support Documents Home / Your Support / Your Documents / Your Support Documents
• Repairs - What To Expect

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