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DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL HOUSING INSPECTION REPORT

The Scottish Housing Regulator today published its inspection report on Dundee City Council. It awarded the council a “fair” rating for its services to homeless people, but “poor” ratings for its asset management and repairs service and for its housing management service.

The purpose of inspection is to provide an independent external assessment of the effectiveness of housing service delivery, and make recommendations to help improvement.

Dundee City Council is situated on the east coast of Scotland, with a population of some 142,000 people. It owns around 14,500 houses.

Michael Cameron, Head of Inspection at the Scottish Housing Regulator, said:

“Our inspectors found that Dundee City Council has some strengths but that these are significantly outweighed by a range of weaknesses, some of which are major. The Council has not always delivered minimum requirements, and it does not focus effectively on improvement.”

The Council must submit an improvement plan to the Scottish Housing Regulator within 8 weeks of the report being published, and must inform tenants of the inspection findings.

NOTES TO NEWS EDITORS

1. Inspectors gave the following grades:

2. Full details of the Dundee City Council inspection report can be found on the Scottish Housing Regulator website at www.scottishhousingregulator.gov.uk

3. The Scottish Housing Regulator came into operation on 1 April 2008. It is the successor to Communities Scotland’s Regulation & Inspection Division. As a government agency the Scottish Housing Regulator has complete operational independence, but remains accountable to Scottish Ministers, and through them to the Scottish Parliament for the standard of its work. The agency sits within the Justice and Communities Directorate of the Scottish Government and will work within the government’s overall purpose and contribute to its strategic objectives.