Our planned investment programme

News

10 September 2024

One of the main reasons behind the merger was to get more investment into your homes and these are the headlines for our planned investment programme for the year. We have had a delayed start because the budget wasn’t finally signed off until mid-May following the merger and we needed to procure and mobilise contractors.

We are now able to invest a lot more than previous years. A suggested five-year programme will now be developed and shared towards the end of March 2025.

Listed below are our major projects and the numbers of homes included in the upgrade programme. Details will be shared with affected residents over the course of the programme, for example, advance notice of when the work will start, progress updates as we go through and a satisfaction survey.

Our priorities have been informed by an extensive homes condition survey over the last year, and feedback from residents and front-line staff. We now have an up-to-date survey for 74% of the homes we provide and are working to achieve a target of 80%. Investment is being planned over a number of years with the immediate focus being on ensuring your homes are safe, warm and meet the decent homes standard.

This year, we will:

Invest around £20M in our homes and communal spaces on everything from boiler and lift replacements to communal decorations and new windows, kitchens and bathrooms.
Be improving security at twenty of our buildings where residents have been suffering from unwanted intruders and anti-social behaviour, by installing new, more secure, main entrance doors.

An overview of our investment programme for 24/25 is shown in the tables below:

Workstream	No. of Homes/Blocks
Bathroom Replacement	85
Kitchen Replacement	84
Window Replacement	60
Roof Replacement	3 (blocks)
Door Renewal (Communal)	20 (blocks)
Lift Modernisation (Communal)	1 (lift)
External Cyclical Maintenance	TBC*
Internal Cyclical Maintenance	TBC*

*Our cyclical maintenance contractors are out surveying the needs of our homes and this will inform the number we can include in the programme. We will update you with more detail in the next month.

Major Works Projects	Project Overview
Derby Lodge	Repair/replacement of windows, roof replacement, cyclical maintenance and decorations to a large Victorian residential building in Camden
Robert Morton House	Wholesale replacement of the suspended ceiling and communal lighting system across all communal areas with additional fire safety works, flooring replacement and internal cyclical decorations to a high rise building in Camden.
Pennethorne House	Wholesale window replacement, proactive external maintenance and internal and external decorations to retirement scheme in Camden.
Archway Height – Cladding Replacement	Significant project to improve fire safety standards including replacing all the external cladding with an approved fire safe system to a high rise building in Camden.
Russell Mansions	Fire safety remedial project including fire door replacement, sprinkler installation, fire compartmentation works and fire escape improvements to a Victorian high rise building in Camden.
Lister Hospital Site Refurbishment	Year 1 of a three-year estate wide refurbishment project. Year 1 focuses on boiler replacement, roofs repair/replacement and electrical safety in Stevenage.
Apollo Way	Estate boundary wall replacement programme due to risk of collapse in Stevenage.
Stephenson House	Estate boundary retaining wall replacement due to risk of collapse in Camden.
Unity Mews	Estate boundary retaining wall replacement due to risk of collapse in Camden.
Shelton Street	Investigation and remediation of long-term major leak into homes and a large retail unit on an estate in Camden.
Haverstock Hill	Subsidence remediation works and cyclical decorations in heritage buildings in Camden.
Brookmead Court	Subsidence remediation works in Barnet.

If you have any queries about this year’s programme, please contact the team at plannedworks@originhousing.org.uk who will be happy to help.