If you have a garden you must keep it tidy. You may want to do this yourself or yourr support workers may arrange for a gardener to keep your garden tidy.
You may pay money in your service charge that will pay towards the cost of maintaining your garden.
You must get our written permission if you want to put up a garden shed, greenhouse or other permanent structure. You must not remove any trees, fences, hedges or sheds without first getting our written permission.
Improvements to the outside of your home such as fencing, landscaping and access ramps
Your total rent also includes charges for services that are provide to you at your property. One of these charges is for environmental improvements. We collect money for these improvements for most, but not all, of the properties we own.
Is my home included in this scheme?
Your Housing Officer can tell you if you pay an environmental improvement
charge in your rent. The Officer will check the rent schedule for your tenancy.
Can any type of improvement be done?
No. The work must:
- Improve your quality of life by helping you to use the space around your home more easily or safely
- Be something more than the routine repairs and maintenance that we already do to the area outside your home
What type of work might be done?
Here are some examples of work that might be carried out, but this list does
not include everything:
- Additional fencing or gates
- Moving a bin store to a different place
- Small garden landscaping projects
- Improving access in a garden for wheelchair users
How does the scheme operate?
The service charges collected for environmental improvements are added together for all the properties that we own. This way, expensive works can be carried out when needed. If we kept the money separately for every property then it would take a long time before there was enough money to do work to an individual home.
However, we can only do work if enough money has been collected from all of our properties. If an improvement is too expensive for us to pay for, we may instead offer to pay some of the money towards the total cost.
Changes are needed to my home, what do I do next?
Contact your Housing Officer and tell them what work is needed on 01772 45088
You can find out more about these types of improvements in the leaflet below.
