On 18 January, Daniel attended a meeting of the Stamford Hill Neighbourhood Panel. One of the main items on the agenda was a presentation from Hackney Homes on its proposals to introduce Estate Plans on all of Hackney's estates.
The Estate Plans project is designed to bring together residents' views about how the communal areas on their estates can be improved. The intention is to have a Improvement Plan in place for every Hackney Homes estate by 2014. These will be made available online and will identify communal repairs programmes, resident-led improvement programmes and ideas for future improvements.
There will be no additional funding for this work: any improvements identified will have to be delivered within available resource. With this in mind, concerns were raised about how decisions over what improvements can and cannot go ahead will be made. Hackney Homes were asked to consider how they communicate to residents the decision making process - and the criteria against which decisions will be made - in order to avoid the risk of raising expectations that cannot be met within existing budget constraints.
You can find out more about the Estate Plans project, and how you can get involved, here.
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