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Tey’re a Committee of our Board, responsible for ensuring we’re delivering on the consumer standards, achieving value for money, and holding us to account. We also have a number of resident groups who focus on key areas of
the organisation and give us suggestions and feedback to help us make improvements. We’ve recently been carrying out a review of our Repairs Service and we held tenant focus groups with their comments and feedback feeding directly into the new proposals for the service. At Salix Homes we’re always looking for new opportunities to increase
tenants engagement and support our residents’ wellbeing. With the cost-of- living crisis, times are incredibly tough for many people, and we see first-hand the effects this is having on people’s health and wellbeing. We’re increasing the support we provide to residents, and we’ve doubled our Customer Support Fund, which provides emergency hardship grants. We’re also continuing to work closely with our partners to support our
residents, whether it’s helping people into work, providing advice on benefits and money management, or investing in grass roots projects through our community grant schemes, we aim to do all we can to help our tenants and communities.
MAJOR PROJECTS Salix Homes works hard to ensure our properties are safe, modern, desirable and energy efficient, and we continually invest in our tenants homes and communities through an ongoing programme of improvement work. We’re building new homes in Salford, which includes social and affordable
housing, and we have two new-build developments that will complete this year – Neighbourhood and Greenhaus. Neighbourhood is a 157-home development, which is being built on
brownfield land that has stood vacant for more than a decade. In total, 91 of the properties at Neighbourhood will be social housing, affordable rent or shared ownership, and we’re also working closely with Salford City Council, which is purchasing 25 of these properties for social rent. Greenhaus is a ground-breaking 96-home eco-apartment block, which is
being built to Passivhaus standards, which is the gold standard for energy efficient buildings and construction. Passivhaus certified properties enjoy reduced energy consumption of around 90% compared to traditional housing stock, helping residents to reduce their fuel bills while cutting carbon footprints. It’s being delivered in partnership with the English Cities Fund (ECF) – a
joint venture between nationwide placemaker Muse, Legal & General and Homes England, to bring together the public and private sector to transform urban areas.
“As a social housing provider, with our foundations firmly rooted in Salford, we want to deliver the right type of housing in the right
places, and we’re aiming to deliver 100 new homes every year” Sue Sutton, Chief Executive at Salix Homes
As part of this partnership, we’re also due to start work soon on a second
Passivhaus development – Willohaus, which will deliver another 100 affordable eco-apartments in Salford. Both Greenhaus and Willohaus represent a new era of new-build, affordable
and eco-friendly homes that will be fit-for-the-future and contribute towards the battle against climate change, while helping to tackle the housing crisis. In addition to building new homes, we‘re also continuing to invest in our
existing housing stock and developing an enhanced Salix Homes property standard, in line with the Government’s Decent Homes standard, to ensure our homes are high quality, safer, cleaner and greener. A multi-million pound eco-transformation at two of our high rise blocks –
Grey Friar and White Friar Court – is underway, which includes external wall and roof insulation to improve the thermal efficiency of the building. We’re fitting new windows and ventilation; the facade and balconies will be completely rendered and transformed, and we’re also installing a ground source heating system. Tis significant investment project, which is being partially funded from the
government’s Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF), will give a new lease of life to these ageing 1960s tower blocks, transforming the properties into desirable, modern homes which are more comfortable and economical to run, while helping to meet our carbon neutral ambitions. Building safety remains a key part of our investment programme. Salix
Homes has been a trailblazer for building safety, and last year we became one of the first housing associations to achieve Building a Safer Future Charter Champion Status.
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