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Social Housing Standards Improvements Necessary, Claims Wales Audit Office (16 January 2012)

Date: 16/01/2012
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, Social Housing Standards Improvements Necessary, Claims Wales Audit Office

According to recent reports, the Welsh Government will fail to meet its own targets for improving the standards of social housing this year. The Wales Audit Office (WAO) claims that the Government will fail to meet its targets, even if the deadline was to be extended to 2017. All of the 221,000 properties offered by councils and housing associations must prove to be in good repair, sufficiently heated and possess modern bathrooms and a kitchen. The WAO claims that ministers must ensure that the funding invested for the purposes of home improvement was spent effectively. Paul Dimblebee, the author of the report, has questioned whether the targets set were realistic.

The director of WAO has told of how the aim of the Government to ensure that all of Wales’ social housing achieved the agreed quality standard within a decade was more ambitious than the targets set for social housing improvements in England and Scotland. He added that, in 2002, at the time of setting the target, the Welsh Government had failed to compile robust evidence relating to the state of social housing and as a result, the Government failed to possess reliable means for determining the amount of work required to meet its own target or the amount of money the improvements would cost.

According to Huw Vaughan Thomas, Wales’ auditor general, improvements are being seen in the quality of social housing. However, work is still required to ensure that all of Wales’ social housing adheres to the minimum standards.

Duncan Lewis’ housing solicitors can guide tenants wishing to take legal action relating to housing repairs.

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