Caerphilly County Borough Council tenants are being invited to ‘drop in’ to have any questions they may have on the council’s housing transfer proposal answered.
The council has extended its housing transfer consultation to allow time for tenants to consider further information that has been issued as part of the current consultation on a proposal to transfer tenants’ homes to a new Community Housing Mutual organisation, Castell Mynydd.
The council issued the Formal Consultation Document, also known as the Offer Document, to tenants at the end of September.
However, since the document was agreed, further work on the council’s financial position has shown that, while it could not achieve the Welsh Housing Quality Standard by 2017/18 as Castell Mynydd could, it would be able to bring homes up to the WHQS by 2019/20. This would be the council’s strategy if homes stay with the council.
Tenants have been sent a document detailing the council’s new position and a series of drop in sessions have been arranged to give tenants the opportunity to ask any questions they may have on the transfer proposal and the additional information.
Drop in sessions will be held on:
Monday December 5
10.30am -12noon – Risca Customer First – 97 Commercial Street, Risca NP11 6AZ
1pm – 3pm – Blackwood Customer First – 5 The Market Place, Blackwood NP12 1AU
Tuesday December 6
2pm – 4pm – Graig-Y-Rhacca Neighbourhood Housing Office – Grays Gardens, Graig-y-Rhacca CF83 8TW
Friday December 9
10am – 12noon – Caerphilly Cash Office – Park Lane, Caerphilly CF83 1AA
Monday December 12
10am -12noon – Lansbury Park Neighbourhood Housing Office – 45 Atlee Court, Lansbury Park
1pm – 3pm – Caerphilly Cash Office – Park Lane, Caerphilly CF83 1AA
Tuesday December 13
10am – 12noon – Newbridge Cash Office – 29 High Street, Newbridge NP1 4FH
2pm – 3pm – Fochriw Customer First – Fochriw Community Centre Pontlottyn Road, Fochriw CF81 9NH
Wednesday December 14
10.30am – 12.30pm – Bargoed Customer First – Hanbury Road, Bargoed CF81 8QT
3.15pm – 5.15pm – Rhymney Library, Victoria Road, Rhymney NP22 5WU
Thursday December 15
10.30am – 12.30pm – Pontlottyn Customer First Merchant Street, Pontlottyn CF81 9QZ
10am – 12.00pm – Graig-Y-Rhacca Neighbourhood Housing Office – Grays Gardens, Graig-y-Rhacca CF83 8TW
Friday December 16
11am – 1pm – Blackwood Customer First – The Market Place, Blackwood NP12 1AU
1.30pm – 3.30pm – Risca Customer First – 97 Commercial Street Risca NP11 4FH
Further drop in sessions will be held early in the New Year.
Tenants can also have their questions answered by the Housing Choices Team by calling the Council freephone on 0800 141 2834 or the Independent Tenant Advisor, PS Consultants, on freephone 0800 088 4194.