Nil or low cost

Small cost

High cost

• Community service people to do odd jobs for residents;
• Building improvements need to be evaluated if necessary, ie don’t go ahead with improvements that are not necessary;
• Liaise with Council on grass cutting;
• Residents responsible for damage to property – fines imposed;
• Website – similar to Freecycle where people offer their services (volunteers) to fix stuff;
• Teach people to garden;
• Providing free lunches at meetings;
• Use paint on outside doors that will last longer;
• Communication;
• Resident involvement;
• Rents – charge fair rent;
• Service excellence;
• Customer services;
• Traffic issues;
• Bus services;
• Doggy bins – extend;
• Disabled car parking;
• Neighbourhood Watch;
• Volunteer gardening scheme – via LINK and Town Councils;
• Interdepartmental communications;
• Gardening and outdoor support;
• Housing Officer visibility;
• Resident input into neighbourhood decisions and services;
• Keep control of budget;
• More cooking lessons;
• Value for money;
• Street lighting and pathways which are Council;

• Garden tidy before people move in (eg cut grass down);
• Training people to help each other;
• Make more parking;
• Resident Forum website;
• Void properties;
• Quick repairs;
• Housing issues and ASB;
• Extra services;
• Contractors;
• Service excellence;
• Follow up on all work done;
• Grounds maintenance;
• Walkabouts;
• Housing management;
• Gardening;
• Quick repairs;
• Pick up grass at 1^st cut only;
• Communication with residents;
• Maintenance – better customer service and quality of work;

• Paperless communications;
• Affordable heat (maintain and replace old, inefficient systems);
• Personal adaptation services;
• Repairs adaptation;
• Building maintenance;
• Budgets;
• Money;
• Heating;
• Management;
• Staff;
• HOME magazine – monthly;
• Outside influences;
• Government;
• Funding;
• Banks;
• Car parking - disabled;
• Adaptations and services (Disability Forum);
• Walk-in showers;
• Adaptations;
• Fencing;
• Heating and energy efficiency;