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Joint venture aims to take repairs service to next level


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MODERN AND LOCAL: GHA Chair Bernadette Hewitt with Christopher Conn, apprentice joiner at City Building; Graham Paterson, City Building Managing Director; Nicole Woodburn, apprentice joiner at City Building; and Morag Johnston, Executive Director of Financial Services for Glasgow City Council


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HA’s repairs service will be more modern, local and more efficient thanks to a new joint venture (JV)


between Wheatley Group and Glasgow City Council. Wheatley – GHA’s parent organisation – is


now a 50/50 joint owner with the local authority of City Building (Glasgow). The JV will provide the repairs and


investment work for GHA, as well as our partners in Wheatley, Loretto, Cube, Lowther Homes and YourPlace. GHA Chair Bernadette Hewitt said the JV


represented “an exciting opportunity to take the repairs and maintenance service to the next level”. She added: “Tenant feedback has played a major part in shaping what will be a modern, more efficient service provided by locally-based repairs teams closer to their customers.


Glasgow Housing Association www.gha.org.uk


better homes, better lives “We know the vast majority of tenants


appreciate the very good repairs service provided. Our aim in taking forward this JV with Glasgow City Council is to make that even better.”


The JV will employ more than 2000 staff and will be responsible for Wheatley’s annual housing repairs budget of £33 million and annual investment budget of £27 million.


“Tenant feedback played a major part in shaping what will be a modern, more efficient service”


The JV will aim to recruit 60 apprentices per year over the next five years, with 35 of those apprentices coming from Wheatley communities.


The Glasgow Housing Association Limited is a not-for-profit housing association: registered under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 No. 2572R(S); recognised by HM Revenue and Customs as a Scottish Charity No. SC034054; registered social landlord No. 317 with the Scottish Housing Regulator under the Housing (Scotland) Act 2010. Registered office: Wheatley House, 25 Cochrane Street, Glasgow G1 1HL.


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