Ore Valley Housing Association

Ore Valley Housing Association's popular newsletter has recently seen it's latest edition for Winter 2011/12 published. It has a number of interesting and important articles including details of the planned changes to the provision of Housing Benefit, the official opening of the Ore Valley Business Centre in Lochgelly, the Tenants Conference and AGM and some hints and tips for avoiding difficulties throughout the winter.

Electronic copies of the newsletter can be downloaded by clicking here or the image of the front page above...

The Scottish Housing Regulator wants to hear your views...

Scotland has a new, independent housing regulator. From next April its role will be to safeguard and promote the interests of tenants and others who receive housing services from local authorities and housing associations. It will replace the existing regulator. Before taking on its role, the new Scottish Housing Regulator is consulting on its approach. It wants to hear the views of tenants, landlords and others with an interest in social housing. 

Kay Blair is the new Regulator’s Chair. Kay said: “The quality of housing and landlord  services have a direct and lasting impact on people’s lives. We will regulate to protect tenants’ interests and to drive improvements in social housing. We will assess each landlord’s performance regularly. In doing so, we will take account of the views and experiences of its tenants. We will publish a range of information on landlords’ performance, including progress against the Scottish Government's new Social Housing Charter. This will help tenants to hold their landlord to account. And we will take action where we find a landlord is failing to deliver for tenants.

The new Regulator would like to get wide feedback on its proposed approach. The consultation runs from early September. You can respond until late November. 

There will also be events across the country, open to tenants and others, to discuss the proposals. You can get a copy of the proposals and find out more about the events by visiting the new Regulator’s website, following the consultation on Twitter or contacting its office. You can find the details below:

website: www.scottishhousingregulator.gov.uk/newregulator

phone: 0141 271 3810

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twitter:  www.twitter.com/SHRconsultation