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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 […]

Friday 22nd December – 08.45 – 14.00 Saturday 23rd December – Closed Sunday 24th December – Closed Monday 25th December – Closed Tuesday 26th December – Closed Wednesday 27th December – 08.45 -17.00 Thursday 28th December – 08.45 – 17.00 Friday 29th December – 08.45 – 17.00 Saturday 30th December – Closed Sunday 31st December – […]

A new £6 million loan fund could help to build more affordable homes across South Lakeland. The money would enable housing associations to finance new developments and help South Lakeland District Council (SLDC) achieve its strategic targets for providing homes to meet local need. The creation of a loan fund, which is to be considered […]

Plans to convert the former Town Hall site in Ulverston have been approved by planners at a meeting on the 5th December 2017. South Lakeland District Council (SLDC) earmarked the building for disposal back in 2015 and the building have been steadily vacated during the last 18 months. During this time, SLH was approached to […]

SLH tenant representatives Stephen Bolton and Loraine Birchall joined hundreds of other tenants to discuss the future of social housing recently. The consultation event with the Housing Minister, Alok Sharma MP took place on 9th November at Preston Football Club as part of a nationwide conversation on the future of the sector. The aim of the event was to listen to the […]

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; […]