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New £33m tenant-designed repairs service rolled out across Wheatley communities

Source: http://www.govopps.co.uk/

A new improved £33 million repairs service is being rolled out to thousands of tenants and factored homeowners across Wheatley communities in the west of Scotland (September 18th).It follows Wheatley, Scotland’s leading housing, care and property management group, becoming earlier this year the joint owner with Glasgow City Council of City Building (Glasgow).The new venture is providing repairs, maintenance and investment work to Wheatley’s social landlords in the west of Scotland – GHA, Cube and Loretto Housing – as well as the Group’s mid-market commercial subsidiary, Lowther Homes, and its property management company, YourPlace.Tenant feedback has shaped the new repairs model, with pathfinder pilots being carried out across Glasgow and neighbouring areas to find out what tenants wanted.