Rotherham's Housing Strategy: Action Plan

Priority 4: Ensuring that our neighbourhoods are safe, happy, and thriving

Reduce the number of long-term empty homes.
Increase the percentage of council tenants satisfied we make a positive contribution to neighbourhoods.
Increase the percentage of tenants satisfied with our approach to handling anti-social behaviour.

Deliver our Empty Homes Plan. We will provide advice to owners and landlords of empty homes to help bring homes back into use, use enforcement powers to tackle empty homes where necessary, and ensure that empty council homes (voids) are brought back into use as soon as possible.
Continue to invest in and improve our tenant and resident engagement, including through creating a new Tenant Engagement Framework with our council tenants; working to retain our TPAS exemplar status for demonstrating long-term commitment to community engagement; and working with Rother Fed and our tenants to strengthen tenant voice and influence.
Deliver improvements to our council estate communal and shared areas, through introducing new estate caretaking teams and increasing our investment in environmental schemes around our housing blocks.
Improve our approach to tackling anti-social behaviour in our communities, including by making more use of enforcement powers such as civil penalty notices, finding new purposes for areas of land currently attracting anti-social behaviour and fly-tipping, and strengthening the approach our housing officers take when dealing with incidents.
Make £216,000 in funding available annually to be allocated to projects and environmental improvements that directly benefit council tenants via our Ward Housing Budget.
Implement the Council’s Banning Order Policy to tackle landlords who are in breach of one or more of the sections of the Housing Act 2004.