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Alan Duncan with a Spire tenant
Alan Duncan MP, visited The Lodge in Oakham recently to see
first hand how Spire Homes are keeping their promises and making
improvements to their sheltered schemes.
Mr Duncan met tenants who have had their kitchens and bathrooms
replaced. Tenants Joyce and David Newman, said “I am really
pleased with our new kitchen and bathroom and I was so impressed
with how helpful the contractors were – nothing was too much
trouble’.
Tenants voted last November for Spire Homes to take ownership of
the Council housing. Since then, they have started improvements all
over the county in general needs housing, as well as sheltered
schemes.
Alan Duncan said “I came to find out how Spire Homes is
delivering their improvement programme and to speak to the tenants
about their experience. I was impressed with how much choice the
tenants have in choosing colours of tiles, units and worktops. I am
looking forward to returning to the Lodge when the communal areas
have been refurbished”.
Dorothy Sharman, also a tenant, said “the treatment I have
received has been first class and I couldn’t believe that I
could choose everything myself”.
Notes: Spire Homes has promised to deliver £21 million worth
of improvements in the first 5 years as well as improve
services.
