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Everything you need to know about moving in and getting settled into your new Livin Home.

Frequently asked Questions

How do I get my gas and electric on at my new property?

Once you know who your gas and electricity suppliers are, you need to call them to change the supply into name of the lead tenant. If you have pre-payment meters, please make sure that there is credit on the meter at this time. Once this is done, you can then contact us to book an appointment for your gas and electric supply to be switched on.

How do I find out who my gas supplier is?

To find out who the gas supplier is for your new home, please visit https://www.findmysupplier.energy.

How do I find out who my electricity supplier is?

To find out who the electricity supplier is for your new home, please call North East England and CE Electric on 0845 601 3268.

How can I get involved with Livin and help to shape services?

To find out more about the different ways you can get involved, please visit our getting involved section.

How do I set up a direct debit?

You can set up a Direct Debit by using our online form. The optional payment dates on the direct debit form are the 6th or 20th, or weekly on a Friday. Should you require alternative dates, please contact us to arrange this.

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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
  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 Tenancies Home / About Us / Plan A 2022-2025 / Supporting Sustainable Tenancies
  • 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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  • 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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  • 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
  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Getting Involved

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

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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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  • 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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  • 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
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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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  • Newton Aycliffe West Improvements

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

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Providing Quality Sustainable Homes

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

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2023/24 / Providing Quality Sustainable Homes
  • Delivering a brilliant customer experience Home / About Us / Annual Report 2020/21 / Delivering a brilliant customer experience
  • Background

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

    Home / About Us / Plan A 2022-2025 / Background
  • 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.

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2022/23 / Supporting Sustainable Tenancies
  • 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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  • Summer Holiday Activities

    Fun-filled local activities available in our communities.

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  • Our People

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

    Home / About Us / Our People
  • Universal Credit

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

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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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.

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2021/22 / Supporting Sustainable Tenancies
  • Contact Us

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

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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.

    Home / Your Support / Mutual Exchange
  • 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.

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2023/24 / Supporting Sustainable Tenancies
  • 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.

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2023/24 / Building and Acquiring Sustainable Homes
  • Customer Voice in 2023/24 Home / About Us / Annual Report 2023/24 / Transforming Customer Experience and Digital Services / Customer Voice in 2023/24
  • 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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  • 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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  • My Livin

    My Livin - Frequently asked questions

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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
  • Supporting your tenancy Home / About Us / Annual Report 2020/21 / Supporting your tenancy
  • 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.

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2021/22 / Transforming Customer Experience and Digital Services
  • 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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  • 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.

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2022/23 / Building and Acquiring Sustainable Homes
  • 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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  • 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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  • Repairs

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

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  • Our sustainability roadmap Home / About Us / Environmental Sustainability / Our sustainability roadmap
  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Complaints and Feedback in 2023/24 Home / About Us / Annual Report 2023/24 / Transforming Customer Experience and Digital Services / Complaints and Feedback in 2023/24
  • 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.

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2023/24 / Transforming Customer Experience and Digital Services
  • 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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  • 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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  • 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.

    Home / Your Support / Work And Training Support
  • Our Board

    Meet our Board members and view the committee make up.

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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.

    Home / Your Home / Looking After Your Home
  • Managing Your Tenancy

    The most frequently asked questions relating to managing your tenancy.

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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.

    Home / Contact Us / Find Us On Social Media
  • 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.

    Home / Your Community / Community Grants / Financially Stronger Places Grant
  • 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.

    Home / Your Support / Work And Training Support / Skills Foundations
  • 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
  • Providing Quality Sustainable Homes

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

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2022/23 / Providing Quality Sustainable Homes
  • 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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  • 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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  • 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.

    Home / About Us / Local offers
  • 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.

    Home / About Us / Environmental Sustainability / What you can do to help?
  • 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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  • 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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  • Blooming Marvellous 2024

    Our tenant gardening competition is back. It doesn't matter if your green area is large or small, we want to see entries of all shapes and sizes.

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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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  • Community Grants

    We can provide you with funding to support your project idea and help our tenants and communities, particularly during this difficult time.

    Home / Your Community / Community Grants
  • 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.

    Home / Your Support / Money Support
  • 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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  • 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.

    Home / Customer Feedback and Complaints / Ways We Listened to and Acted on Your Complaints
  • Rent Account

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

    Home / Frequently Asked Questions / Rent Account
  • Other

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

    Home / Frequently Asked Questions / Other
  • Benefits

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

    Home / Frequently Asked Questions / Benefits
  • 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.

    Home / Your Community / Community Grants / Greener Places Grant
  • Our Partners

    We work with like-minded groups of people to help us deliver our Plan A. Our community partners provide a lifeline to so many people in so many ways.

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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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  • Hear from our people

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

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  • Improving your home Home / About Us / Annual Report 2020/21 / Improving your home
  • Improving your community Home / About Us / Annual Report 2020/21 / Improving your community
  • 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.

    Home / Your Support / Work And Training Support / Local Vacancies / Apprenticeship Support
  • About team Livin

    Our values at team Livin and what we are most proud of

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Frequently Asked Questions

    Our frequently asked questions give you all the answers you need to be able to solve your query.

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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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  • Finance Home / About Us / Annual Report 2023/24 / Finance
  • 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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  • 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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  • Our Legislative and Regulatory Responsibilities

    Public Sector Equality Duty, Equality Act 2010, Regulatory Standards

    Home / Our Legislative and Regulatory Responsibilities
  • 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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  • 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.

    Home / Your Support / Preventing and Tackling Fraud
  • 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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  • The Courts Home / Frequently Asked Questions / The Courts
  • Safer Places Grant

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

    Home / Your Community / Community Grants / Safer Places Grant
  • 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.

    Home / Your Community / Community Grants / Healthy Places Grant
  • Bringing Places Together Grant

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

    Home / Your Community / Community Grants / Bringing Places Together Grant
  • Finance Home / About Us / Annual Report 2020/21 / Finance
  • Supporting Sustainable Places

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

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2021/22 / Supporting Sustainable Places
  • Providing Quality Sustainable Homes

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

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2021/22 / Providing Quality Sustainable Homes
  • Your Tenancy Documents Home / Your Support / Your Documents / Your Tenancy Documents
  • 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.

    Home / Your Home / Looking After Your Home / Home Improvement Programme / Life Cycles
  • Spruce Court

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

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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

    Home / Your Home / Home Safety / Your Smoke Alarms
  • 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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  • Customer Feedback and Complaints

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

    Home / Customer Feedback and Complaints
  • Opportunities For Young People

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

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  • Your Support Documents Home / Your Support / Your Documents / Your Support Documents
  • 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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  • 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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  • Environmental Sustainability Home / Frequently Asked Questions / Environmental Sustainability
  • Pay Your Rent

    Everything you need to know about checking your rent balance, making an online or telephone payment, setting up a direct debit and requesting money support.

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