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 i.e. 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 (e.g. 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;