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Funding has been secured to repeat an innovative grant scheme that helps bring empty homes back into use.   South Lakeland District Council (SLDC) has been successful in getting funding to run another round of the Empty Homes Grant Management Scheme, a programme designed to help with repairs to empty homes to provide more affordable […]

The Annual Report and Financial Statements 2017 for the year ending 31 March 2017 was approved by the SLH Board at the Annual General Meeting on Thursday 7th September 2017. The Financial Statements were audited by external auditors Beever & Struthers. The Annual Report is a comprehensive report on SLHs activities throughout the preceding year and […]

The 2017 annual Value for Money (VfM) self-assessment has been published today following  approval by the SLH Board in September 2017. The Regulatory Standard on VfM requires that Registered Providers Boards shall demonstrate to stakeholders how they are meeting this standard. As part of that process, on an annual basis, landlords are required to publish a […]

South Lakes Housing and Tenants Committee have today published their Annual Report 2017 The Regulatory Standard on Tenant Involvement & Empowerment requires that housing associations provide timely and relevant performance information to support effective scrutiny by tenants of their performance. This includes the publication of an annual report in a form agreed by tenants. The report shows that; […]

SLH has signed up to a National Housing Federation campaign to increase house building in rural areas by as much as 6% per year, which will be officially launched during the Federations Rural Housing Week which takes place between 3-7th July 2017. The aim of the week is to highlight rural housing issues and to […]

SLH’s new homes are part of 88,000 being built by PlaceShapers in the next five years. PlaceShapers is a network of more than 100 community focused housing associations. Its new We Build report sets out the increasing contribution that members have made – and will make – to solving the housing crisis. In the next five […]

The thoughts of everyone connected to South Lakes Housing go out to all those affected by the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower in West London. In light of this tragedy, SLH wish to reassure our tenants and leaseholders that we take Fire Safety and Prevention extremely seriously and wish to take this opportunity to advise […]

Today we publish a special South Lakes 5 year Magazine. Read all about our investment in homes and plans for the future. The newsletter shows where we have invested £54 million into homes since 2012 and how we are getting better value for money. It also shows plans for the future including; constitutional changes at Board level, a further £5.3 million […]

From 3rd April 2017 our office will now be open at the following times every week Monday               9.00am 1.00pm Tuesday               1.00pm 5.00pm Thursday             9.00am 5.00pm During other times the office will only be open to the public by prior appointment. If you need to contact South Lakes Housing outside the new office times […]

South Lakes Housing (SLH) has completed its promises to tenants as a result of a £54 million pound investment into the housing stock following the transfer of homes from South Lakeland District Council five years ago. The company will celebrate its 5th year anniversary on the 5th March. The independently run local housing association was […]

South Lakes Housing is approaching its 5th anniversary as an independent Housing Association and has ambitious plans for its future. We are looking to appoint forward thinking Directors to our Board to help drive our ambitions. We are particularly looking for directors with high level commercial/management experience and those with experience/expertise in finance and treasury, […]

Students at Queen Katherine School, hosted a festive Tea Party for South Lakes Housings sheltered housing tenants and students from Sandgate School. The staff and students at Queen Katherine School had been busy preparing for the event for several months by making decorations, crackers and learning how to host an afternoon tea. Tea was served […]

The Storm Desmond event of the 5th December 2015 led to 60 SLH homes being flooded from a range of sources including; surface water run-off from the fells, river flooding and ground water flooding. 39 households required alternative temporary accommodation with Kendal being the worst affected area. Two sheltered schemes were also badly affected including a […]

SLH organised a gin tasting evening to raise money for Growing Well, a local charity who work with people who are in recovery from mental health. The event took advantage of the growing popularity of gin and managed to raise money through selling tickets to the event and also holding a raffle on the night […]

South Lakes Housing (SLH) has been granted two injunctions for anti-social behavior within the last few weeks. SLH obtained an injunction against Mark Beckford of Jenkin Rise, Kendal on the 21st of October 2016. SLH first received complaints about noise nuisance in November 2015 which SLH tried to solve by installing insulation between the flats. SLH […]