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South Lakes Housing (SLH) have spoken with residents to inform them about the eventual closure of the Yewbarrow Lodge Sheltered Housing scheme in Grange-Over-Sands. The decision was taken following a review of current and future demand for sheltered housing, where currently a third of the flats remain vacant with some empty for over two years. […]

A ground-breaking pilot scheme designed to reconnect older people with their communities and banish social isolation is underway. The MobileAge project aims to use specially developed technology to encourage older people to be more active and combat loneliness. The social prescribing app, developed by experts at Lancaster University as part of a two-year Europe-wide study, […]

SLH wants its tenants to feel safer and installing Aicos new 3000 Series alarms and Carbon Monoxide Alarms will help them do just that. Aico, the UKs market leader in mains powered domestic Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarms, is supplying SLH with its 3000 Series Alarms to provide protection to tenants across a range of […]

South Lakes Housing has today received confirmation of the highest regulatory judgement for both governance and viability from the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) following an In Depth Assessment (IDA), conducted over the past 3 months. The intensive process involved scrutinising documental evidence, interviews with the Executive and Chair of the Board and the Audit […]

Tenants have been warned that sub-letting their properties to others is illegal and could land them in court. The warning comes after South Lakeland District Council (SLDC) prosecuted a man for sub-letting a South Lakes Housing property for which he held an assured tenancy the first prosecution of this kind in the district under legislation […]

SLH are now advertising two new 3 bed houses for Shared Ownership in a development at Church Bank Gardens, Burton in Kendal. These form part of an ambitious development programme to deliver over 300 new affordable homes across the South Lakeland District in the next few years. Whilst there will inevitably need to be some […]

The Board have today published their Annual Report & Financial Statements 2018 for the financial year ending 31st March 2018. The report and accounts were received and adopted at the Annual General Meeting of shareholders on 27th September 2018. The accounts include a report on Value for Money (VfM) in line with the requirements of […]

SLH together with a group of Tenants’ Committee representatives have published the Annual Tenant Report 2018. This year’s report includes; A welcome from the new Board Chairman (Ian Munro) and new Tenants’ Committee Chairman (Stephen Bolton) An advertisement on becoming a Board Director or member of the Tenants’ Committee A round-up of tenant scrutiny activity […]

South Lakes Housing has pledged its support to a new national domestic violence campaign called Make a Stand. The campaign was launched by Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) in partnership with Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA) and Womens Aid to help tackle domestic abuse within UK communities, including here in South Lakeland. Nationally, domestic abuse […]

The Rural Housing Conundrum As the Rural Housing Week draws to a close I am buoyed up by the enthusiasm and energy I have witnessed of so many people and organisations committed to addressing the housing crisis in rural areas. This commitment was shown last year with many housing associations, councils and others getting behind […]

A Fun family festival with an important message will be coming to Kendal on 23 June 2018. The Kendal Unity Festival is timed to coincide with National Refugee Week and The Great Get Together. The free, one day event, aims to promote equality and celebrate diversity. Kendal Unity Festival will run from 10am with workshops, […]

Building work to convert the old Ulverston Town Hall into affordable housing is set to begin next month with developers, SLH, offering local groups the chance to recycle some of its important historical features. SLH has appointed contractors and other specialists to carry out a sensitive conversion of the empty building into nine apartments and the […]

A £2.5 million new affordable housing scheme by South Lakes Housing was unveiled on Friday 16th March 2018. The 14 new affordable homes at Dowkers Lane in Kendal (comprising of 6 two bed houses, 4 three bed houses and 4 two bed flats) were built by Tyson Construction and designed by architect Halsall Lloyd Partnership […]

Three new affordable homes were handed over by developer Russell Armer at a publicity event to mark the completion of the second phase of new developments at Grange-over-Sands on 12th January. The homes acquired by SLH consisted of a 2-bedroomed house and two bedroomed flats which were let immediately to three delighted households who successfully […]

Employees of South Lakes Housing are taking part in the R.E.D January challenge to raise funds for local charity South Lakeland Mind. R.E.D stands for Run Every Day during the January which encourages participants to undertake a month-long challenge to run, walk, swim or any other exercise each day, every day. Over the next 31 […]