£100million to upgrade East Riding council houses

East Riding Council is to spend almost £100m on improving existing council houses over the next four years.
The council owns 11,000 housesThe council owns 11,000 houses
The council owns 11,000 houses

The authority is investing £61m into maintaining its housing stock by upgrading kitchens and bathrooms, re-roofing, window replacements and energy efficiency works.

A further £36m will be spent on responsive repairs, void properties and on-going maintenance to council houses between 2019 and 2023, while a total of proposed £15.9m is being set aside for planned maintenance during the 2019/20 financial year.

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The biggest outlays will be on replacing boilers and installing central heating systems (£2.9m), on roofing – including new fascias and checking insulation levels (£2.6m) and on renovating kitchens and bathrooms (£2.1m).

A further £1.5m has been set aside to adapt homes for disabled tenants, including potential property extensions to aid accessibility.

Replacement windows will add around £1.2m to the cost, with additional thermal upgrades totalling £1.7m. Re-wiring and structural work is expected to cost a combined total of £2m.

The authority has a housing portfolio of more than 11,000 properties, made up of a mixture of houses, bungalows and flats located throughout the East Riding.

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These range from as far as Flamborough and Bridlington in the north, Goole in the west, Withernsea in the east and the suburbs surrounding Hull, including Anlaby and Hessle.

2019/20 planned maintenance in full

£2.9m replacing boilers and installing central heating systems

£2.1m on kitchens and bathrooms

£2.6m on roofing including new fascias and soffits and checking insulation levels

£1.2m replacing windows

£1.7m on thermal upgrades to properties with external wall insulation and upgrading existing heating systems, windows and loft insulation

£1.5m on disabled adaptations and where necessary extensions

£1.0m on re-wiring

£1.0m on structural works