POSTED: 9/03/2023
Work continues on a range of projects across our regions through our £22m major works programme.
In Stockport work continues on our Clifford Court scheme. From July 2022, our Sustainable Assets team has made great progress with the improvements promised to customers, and the ‘new and improved look’ is really starting to take shape. The scheme of 87 flats spread across 10 blocks provides both sheltered and rented accommodation. The team has installed new flat entrance doors and meter over boxes to the main block, continued to deliver electrical upgrade works and decoration to communal areas, and started work to remodel the post room and WC. The project has been extended to include additional work such as new meter over boxes alongside new flat entrance doors to nine general needs accommodation blocks at Clifford Court, new communal lighting, and redecoration works to all communal stairwells, and remodelling work to communal store room. Work is expected to be completed in the next few months.
Across in Lancashire, works at our Windmill House scheme in Blackpool are near completion. All residents at the scheme now have their new fire rated front doors and high heat retention Dimplex Quantum storage heaters. An internal makeover has also started with new internal decorations, floor coverings and improved communal facilities. Work is also due to start on the adjoining Millfield scheme that provides high dependency support for a small group of tenants.
At Greyfriars, our scheme of eight blocks flats in Sheffield, work has recently finished on a range improvements to customers’ homes as well as communal refurbishment work to all eight blocks. This included new kitchens and flat entrance doors as well as new flooring and redecoration of communal areas and new roofing to all blocks. Waterbutts have also been installed in flowerbeds around the scheme.
Finally, work continues on the makeover to the NHS Key Worker accommodation at the Royal Oldham Hospital, following a successful pilot scheme last year. Oak House and Beech House contain 52 rooms managed by Great Places for medical professionals coming to work in the local area. They were originally built in the 1970s but the accommodation was in desperate need of an update. The refurbishment will include updates to the rooms, bathrooms, communal lounge and bedrooms.
