Stirling Council Spring 2017
Open Door Rent Consultation Results On 23 February 2017, a Special Council meeting agreed with tenants’ views to increase rents by 0.3% for housing, garages, pitch sites and travelling persons’ pitch sites for 2017/18. The rent consultation was sent via the autumn edition of Open Door to 5,399 tenants with 440 responses received. This represents a response rate of 8.15%. The details below show support for the rent increase of 0.3% and the proposed investment programme.
Proposed 0.3% rent increase
For
Against 30.5%
69.5%
Proposed investment programme for 2017/18 as described in the previous edition of Open Door.
For 87.6%
Contents • Welfare Reform and Universal Credit advice • Are Tenants Led Inspections for you? • Satisfaction Survey – what did you tell us? • Tenants survey other tenants • Big date for Stirling Council tenants • Local government election information
A big THANK YOU to all you who returned your survey earlier this year. Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Bett of Raploch and John Ogilvie of Dunblane who won £50 supermarket vouchers in our prize draw.
Joiner to the rescue… Archie the cat has been saved from an empty Council house in Whitecross Avenue, Dunblane. In January, Council staff working in the empty property thought they could hear the sound of a cat but were unable to locate it. Meanwhile, Archie’s owner, who lives nearby, had contacted the Contact Centre over the weekend after a cat had been spotted at the window of the empty property. The following day, the cat was found under the floorboards by Council joiner Scott McIntyre and tempted out by the Void Chargehand’s corned beef piece. He was soon reunited with his relieved owner.