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LANGSTANE HOUSING ASSOCIATION RE-INSPECTION REPORT

Langstane Housing Association has been awarded a ‘fair’ rating for its overall performance.

This follows a re-inspection by inspectors from Communities Scotland, now the Scottish Housing Regulator.

After an inspection in 2005, the association was awarded a ‘D’ grade for housing management.

A re-inspection was undertaken in January 2008 to assess its progress against the improvement plan it put in place after the original inspection. The inspectors found that the association had achieved a number of improvements.

Michael Cameron, acting head of inspection at the Scottish Housing Regulator, said:

“We welcome the improvement achieved by the association over the last three years. Our inspectors found that Langstane Housing Association understands many of its strengths and weaknesses, and is committed to improving services for tenants.

“It has demonstrated strengths in a number of areas, particularly allocating its properties to people in housing need, providing support to vulnerable tenants and issuing good quality information to new tenants.

“The association is aware that it needs to improve its management and monitoring of rent arrears and the time it takes to re-let its properties.

NOTES TO NEWS EDITORS

1. Inspectors gave the following grade after the inspection:

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

3. Langstane Housing Association manages over 2,000 properties throughout Aberdeen city, Aberdeenshire and Moray. It’s head office is based in the city of Aberdeen with service delivery offices located in Elgin and Peterhead.

4. Full details of the Langstane Housing Association inspection report can be found on the Scottish Housing Regulator website at www.scottishhousingregulator.gov.uk

5. 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 will have complete operational independence, but will remain 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.