WM Housing is now using software from Boardpad for electronic meeting packs for its variety of board meetings, committee meetings and group executive meetings. After unsuccessfully trialling and manually creating PDF versions of meeting packs and distributing them to board members, WM Housing realised that it needed a more refined and intuitive solution to compile…
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Community metering at CityWest Homes
Thanks to a £100,000 innovation award from the National Grid Energy Efficiency Innovation Award scheme, CityWest Homes has teamed up with utility metering company Energy Assets to install ‘community metering’ across 840 properties in eight London tower blocks. These will access cheaper electricity without tenants needing to cut back on comfort. Work started in January…
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Seeing CCTV in a new light
James Wickes, CEO of Cloudview, looks at the impact cloud technology is having on traditional CCTV for housing providers. As both observers and the observed, we all have a ‘view’ on what CCTV is. We’ll have seen the grainy, frame-by-frame footage, often used as evidence against criminal or disruptive behaviour. We’ll have noticed the cumbersome…
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Magenta Living’s asset team wins ‘Project of the Year’
Magenta Living’s asset management team were awarded ‘project of the year’ at the National Housing Maintenance Forum’s recent annual dinner. The housing provider won the award for its development and implementation of a post-decency investment strategy called Project Save, from which emerged the need for neighbourhood regeneration as well as addressing the challenge of fuel…
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Top service from Nottingham On Call
Nottingham City Homes’ Nottingham On Call service has retained its accreditation from the Telecare Services Association. Nottingham On Call is a 24-hour emergency response service for NCH tenants, plus those from other housing organisations, who sign up for the service. It works through a telephone link to a Nottingham-based call centre and allows tenants who…
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Looking Local supports universal credit self-service
In the light of the introduction of universal credit, Looking Local is helping more than 100 housing providers and local authorities to publish key information about benefits and jobs online, at the same as giving the widest possible digital access to claimants who are moving across to the new benefits system. Looking Local’s solutions provide…
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