Priority 2: Improving the safety, quality and energy efficiency of our homes
Our aims:
We will work towards ensuring that no household is living in fuel poverty.
We will ensure that our residents live in safe, decent, high-quality homes.
We will work towards ensuring that all landlords, including the Council, operate to the highest standard.
Key performance indicators:
Increasing the percentage of satisfied tenants in all of the Regulator of Social Housing’s Tenant Satisfaction Measures
Increasing the proportion of our council homes that meet the Decent Homes Standard and continue to improve our repairs and health and safety compliance performance
Increasing the number of private sector landlord actions addressing Category 1 and 2 hazards following Council intervention.
Reducing the percentage of households living in (Low Income Low Energy Efficiency) fuel poverty in Rotherham
Increasing energy efficiency in existing homes, including ensuring all council homes achieve an EPC certificate minimum rating C by 2030.
Over the next five years, we will:
Meet or exceed minimum council housing standards to ensure our tenants are safe in their homes. We will focus on improving our performance against the Decent Homes Standard; ensuring all repairs, risk assessments, inspections and safety checks are carried out to target timescales; and improving how we manage our homes and work with our tenants to meet the consumer standards. This will be underpinned by our stock condition survey and a £37m expansion in our housing improvements capital programme.
Continue to provide a range of support to address fuel poverty and improve energy efficiency. Our energy crisis support scheme will support qualifying residents in fuel poverty, and our Healthy Homes Plan will provide help and advice to residents to increase energy efficiency in their homes, supported by ECO4 and ECO5 grants for our most vulnerable residents and/or homes with the lowest energy efficiency.
Develop our council housing decarbonisation plan, aiming to meet legal requirements to achieve EPC C by 2030, and then a roadmap to net zero emissions. We will maximise opportunities to invest in the Borough by bidding for funding that becomes available through Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.
Hold landlords in Selective Licensing areas responsible for the condition and management of their properties and, subject to review of recent consultation, continue to review the case to expand Selective Licensing to other areas of the borough. We will also implement new powers granted by the Renters Rights Act.
Indicators:
Tenant satisfaction measures (various)
No. of homes meeting decent homes standards (or other)
