What can the budget be spent on?
This budget can only be spent on environmental improvements which benefit the wider community. These include improvements such as resurfacing of pathways, improving lighting, installing bike sheds, investment in greener spaces or play areas and so on.
If you're not sure whether your suggestion fits this category, share it with us as this can be something we look at when we collate the results.
What to be aware of when suggesting ideas
Depending on the idea’s put forward, more consideration will be given to environmental works that can be carried out on estates with communal lands belonging to Eastend Homes. This means several new development residents which are included in the apportionment figures may not directly benefit from the works as they may not be located near an estate. We understand this is not ideal, but we still want to hear from all residents as there may be scope for certain environmental improvements, even if the building you live in is not connected to an estate e.g. cycle sheds, improved lighting. We will look to review our process around the environmental improvement budget this year.
How to have your say on what the budget should be used for?
We want to collect ideas from residents and the easiest way for us to do this is by doing a quick survey. If residents do not want to complete the online survey they can drop into our local office or call their housing officer to let them know what ideas, they wish to put forward.
The results will be collected, and we will be sharing your ideas with your local Estate Management Boards (made up of residents) to help us prioritise which works will be carried out.
Depending on how many ideas we get back, we may do a follow-on survey so residents understand the ideas which have been shortlisted and can then vote on the ones they want to see happen for their area.
What happens after you have chosen the works?
Once we have prioritised the list with the local Estate Management Boards, we will update our website to let residents know what works have been provisionally agreed. We will also try to communicate this to you by email or text message, that is as long as we have your email and mobile number on our system.
We will then start to collect quotes from contractors and instruct works.
What happens once the works have been done?
Once works are complete, we will update our website and share this in our resident newsletter that comes out every quarter.
We also hope that you see the changes as and when the works are done.