Appendix - North Kesteven District Council

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C The Challenges Facing the District Housing Challenges – The Condition of the District’s Housing Stock The Council’s own stock There are 3,850 houses in the Council’s housing stock (April 2005), with 55 Right to Buy disposals in 2004/05. Whilst most of the stock is concentrated in the larger communities (62% in communities with a population of 2,500 or above), the Council does have houses in 69 of the District’s 76 parishes. Only 35% of stock dates from before 1945, with nearly 50% being built between 1954-1964 and only 15% being built since 1974. Over 29% of the Council’s stock is made up of system built houses. A Condition Standard The Government has established a decent homes standard which all social housing properties (including Council housing) properties must achieve by 2010. The Decent Homes Standard is defined as; A. Meeting the current minimum standard for housing. B. Being in a reasonable state of repair; A property is classed as being in a reasonable state of repair unless: • One or more of the key building components (walls, windows and gas boilers) are old and, because of their condition need replacing or major repair; or • Two or more of the other building components are old and, because of their condition, need replacing or major repair. C. Having reasonably modern services and facilities; A property should not lack three or more of the following: • A reasonably modern kitchen (20 years old or less) • A kitchen with adequate space and layout. • A reasonably modern bathroom (30 years old or less) • An appropriately located bathroom and w.c. • Adequate insulation against external noise (where it is a problem) • Adequate size and layout of common areas for blocks of flats. (A home lacking two or less of the above is still classed as decent.) D. Providing a reasonable degree of warmth: • Properties with electric or solid fuel heating systems should have cavity wall insulation and loft insulation of 200mm. • Properties with gas central heating should have loft insulation of 50mm or cavity wall insulation. Following discussions with tenant representatives as part of the Stock Options Appraisal, in order to meet the tenants aspirations, the Council has adopted the following standards in addition to the Governments Decent Homes Standard. • The Whole House Approach; where possible if work is identified as being required over a two to three year period it will all be carried out at the same time. • Tenants Choice; most improvements are subject to ‘Tenants Choice’ with respect to layout, heatingchoice, style and colour of fittings etc. • All windows will be double glazed by 2009 (except if planning restrictions apply) 21 Housing Strategy 2005 - 2008
C The Challenges Facing the District • Kitchens and bathrooms include additional elements e.g. new electric points, non-slip flooring, bespoke design and decoration. • Properties with gas central heating will have at least 200mm loft insulation and cavity wall insulation (if technically possible). All Cornish type properties will be externally insulated by 2010. The Council maintains a stock condition database which will be transferred to specially designed software. A rolling survey has been designed to keep stock condition information up-to-date so that each property is regularly assessed at least every four years. Achieving the Decent Home Standard for the Council’s Stock Since the year 2000 there have been 1434 properties brought up to the decent homes standard. This is a combination of properties originally identified as non decent as well as the ‘newly arising needs’ (i.e properties that fall into non-decent as each year passes.) At April 2005 there were 714 properties currently non decent. Proportion which are below the current statutory minimum standard for housing 8 Number not in a reasonable state of repair 35 Number without modern amenities 351 Proportion that do not provide a reasonable degree of thermal comfort 320 There are estimated to be 720 properties that will become non decent by 2010. At the time of the stock options appraisal (2004/5) it was estimated that in order to bring all the stock up to the decent homes standard, an investment of £6.5m million would be needed. This included an assessment of newly arising non decent homes up to 2010 and is affordable within estimated capital funding available for the Council’s housing stock of £22.4m up to 2009/10. As such this is not considered to be a priority for the Housing Strategy although it will remain a priority for the HRA Business Plan (available on the Council’s web site www.n-kesteven.gov.uk.) Private Sector Housing Stock The Council has undertaken a survey of the private sector housing stock in 2003. This has shown the stock is generally in good condition. Only 480 out of 37,100 (1.3%) of premises were unfit in accordance with the current Housing Fitness Standard. Once the Housing Health and Safety Rating System is introduced it is estimated that there will be 1,240 (3%) of premises with serious hazards, the main ones being excessive cold and falls on the level. In addition it is estimated that there are 3,190 (9%) households in fuel poverty and 11,550 (31%) private sector dwellings that fail the decent homes standard. Housing Strategy 2005 - 2008 22
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Page 3 and 4: Forward FORWARD by Councillor Ogden
Page 5 and 6: Executive Summary Introduction The
Page 7 and 8: Executive Summary Resources Housing
Page 9 and 10: A The District Context North Kestev
Page 11 and 12: B Strategic Framework including the
Page 13 and 14: B Strategic Framework The Council h
Page 15 and 16: B Strategic Framework Wider Context
Page 17 and 18: C The Challenges Facing the Distric
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Page 25 and 26: D Strategic Priorities An analysis
Page 27 and 28: D Strategic Priorities Consultation
Page 29 and 30: D Strategic Priorities Other opport
Page 31 and 32: D Strategic Priorities Helping thos
Page 33 and 34: D Strategic Priorities Homelessness
Page 35 and 36: D Strategic Priorities Although pre
Page 37 and 38: E Supporting Minority Groups Black
Page 39 and 40: F Partnership Working This Strategy
Page 41 and 42: G Resources Revenue Funding Housing
Page 43 and 44: G Resources 2005/06 2006/07 2007/08
Page 45 and 46: G Resources This programme is based
Page 47 and 48: H Development of Housing Strategy O
Page 49 and 50: Appendix A PRIORITY AREA 1 - Afford
Page 51 and 52: Appendix A ACTIONS MILESTONES RESOU
Page 55 and 56: Appendix A PRIORITY AREA 3 - Energy
Page 65 and 66: Appendix C List of Consultees Linco
Page 67 and 68: Appendix C Archaological Services T
Page 69 and 70: Appendix C Highways Consultants Hec
Page 71 and 72: Appendix C Clerk to Bracebridge Hea
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Appendix D Options Considered in th
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Appendix D OPTIONS RISK ISSUES RESO
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Appendix E ACTUAL 2003/04 £ ACTUAL
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Appendix E ACTUAL 2003/04 £ ACTUAL
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Appendix F Performance for 2003/04
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Appendix F Performance for 2003/04
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