Get involved with your new Local Neighbourhood Plan | Tenant news

We’re pleased to announce that we’re producing a Local Neighbourhood Plan for each of our schemes. A Neighbourhood Plan sets out how we will aim to improve the communal areas within your scheme.

Each Neighbourhood Plan is a collaboration between residents and their Neighbourhood Team, and is created to benefit all tenants on the scheme.

Improving your scheme

Your Local Neighbourhood Plan will document priority repairs and maintenance and other improvements for your scheme’s communal spaces.

Elements in the plan might be funded by our tenant-led improvement budget or our Investment Programme. It will be updated on an ongoing basis to track the progress of each agreed project or task.

Useful information

Your neighbourhood plan will also contain information on where you can find cost-of-living support, such as food banks and charities in your local area, and details on our Tenant Support Fund, which is set aside to support tenants who are experiencing financial hardship.

The plan will also give information on your Neighbourhood Team, local Tenant Rep and how you can contact them.

How to get involved

All tenants on your scheme can help shape and give feedback on their Local Neighbourhood Plan by attending their annual scheme meeting.

To find out when your next annual scheme meeting is, please speak to your Neighbourhood Team.

You can also attend your regional online tenant Listening Events, where Habinteg staff will be sharing your Local Neighbourhood Plan.

Making changes

Examples of what could be included in your Local Neighbourhood Plan, include plans to install a CCTV system, or environmental projects such as tree planting.

Our Bossom Court scheme in Liverpool has recently completed their Neighbourhood Plan, which includes the aim of getting an on-site, empty council-owned building back into use.

“Bossom Court tenants have said they would like to use it as a communal social space, so we’ve contacted the council to enquire about this as part of their Local Neighbourhood Plan,” said our Head of Housing, Donna Holmes.

Completed plans

Your local plan will be displayed either on a communal notice board at your scheme or at your scheme’s office.

So far, Local Neighbourhood Plans have been completed for three schemes: Bossom Court in Liverpool, Eden Gardens in Bradford, and Ash Close in Edgware, north London.

Dispersed housing stock

If you live in a Habinteg home that’s part of a small cluster of homes (with less than 15 tenants), we’re developing ways to engage with you.

Some Neighbourhood Teams are organising open days and other meetings for their tenants who live in geographically dispersed homes. So, watch this space.

If you live in such homes and have any ideas about how you’ d like to engage with us, we’d love to hear them. Please contact your Neighbourhood Team.