Synergy Housing Group has deployed a package of services from Star to improve services to its tenants and increase the efficiency of its internal processes. The group, formed in 2004 from East Dorset Housing Association, Howell Housing Association, Purbeck Housing Trust and Weymouth and Portland Housing (in April 2006), manages approximately 8000 homes in the…
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001 - January 2008
Good housekeeping
Housing associations and ALMOs across the country face a raft of targets governing future funding and status. The Decent Homes programme, which promised a certain level of social housing by 2010, looks set to miss its target. Combine this with the pressure of successfully passing Audit Commission inspections and Housing Corporation assessments and it’s clear…
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No more spreadsheets for Brent Housing Partnership
Brent Housing Partnership has implemented an asset management system to replace its spreadsheets, enabling easier and more accurate tracking of its assets. BHP, a three-star arm’s length management organisation created in 2002, looks after 13,000 properties on behalf of Brent Council. After recently relocating from the council’s buildings into separate offices, BHP assumed responsibility for…
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Broadband over powerline at Gallions
Gallions Housing Association is testing a service that provides residents at its 5,200 homes in south-east London with affordable broadband direct through their existing electrical sockets. Despite many of Gallions’ dwellings being high-rise blocks, which are usually expensive to connect to broadband, Motorola’s broadband over powerline service was installed in less than a day. Motorola’s…
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Mergers and mobility
We expect mergers and mobility to be the dominant drivers within the social housing sector over the next year and beyond. With much of the UK housing stock transferred into the not-for-profit sector and the increasing number of mergers within this market, the next 12 months will see housing associations continue to come together in…
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Infinite mailbox ends storage problems at Wirral Partner Homes
After Wirral Partner Homes took over the ownership and management of Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council’s 13,000 homes, the £150 million transfer programme has included a strategic review of its IT systems, with emphasis on its email capabilities. As email has become the key method for internal communication and external communication with contractors and tenants, WPH…
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