Planned Maintenance
Planned maintenance is a scheduled maintenance programme intended to keep the external fabric of Council houses in as good a condition as possible to extend the time before replacement becomes necessary.
Typically planned maintenance includes external joinery like windows, doors, external timber linings and eaves boarding, slates, rainwater gutters and downpipes, and external repainting. During planned maintenance staff also inspect common closes where there is a mixture of Council houses, owner-occupiers and private sector rented properties. If private owners agree re-painting inside these closes will also be carried out, but without private owner agreement this can't go ahead.
Your house is likely to have this kind of work carried out at least once every five years. However, if major improvements are planned we would normally defer planned maintenance so that all the work happens at the same time.
In any case we will write to you beforehand to let you know what we are intending to do.
If your home is due for planned maintenance the outside will be surveyed to identify the work that's needed. Where, for instance, exterior doors have deteriorated to the point where repairs aren't economic, they will be renewed.
If your home has had no maintenance work for more than five years, or you have any questions about maintenance, please check with your
local area housing office.
