Walking back from Greenwich via Ha'Penny Hatch on Saturday I saw one of the above lying on the ground. Since I have not received the October 2010 copy of Home magazine through my door I bent to pick it up but stopped when I realised it was hiding some dog shit beneath it...
Later I went to the Lewisham Homes website and clicked on Home – The resident magazine under Publications in the lefthand menu on the home page. I got this...
Our quarterly residents magazine, Home, is sent to all Lewisham Homes tenants and leaseholders.
Oh no it isn't! Anyway, Issue 13 was available to download and I read with interest that Lewisham Homes is pleased to announce it achieved the two-star rating from the Audit Commission (after their inspection in June) that it needed in order to access extra government funding to deliver a Decent Homes investment programme...(depending on the government having any money left of course).
The Audit Commission Report is available to download from the LH website HERE (scroll to the bottom of the page to download the pdf)...worth a read if you want to know a bit more about the areas 'that require improvement'...(for instance, a cock up with the Grounds Maintenance contract, low levels of customer satisfaction particularly the ASB service, poor monitoring of services generally, service charges poorly calculated etc)...
There is an small indication of the degree to which the report is white washed (or subject to inaccurate information supplied by LH officers in June 2010) apparent in paragraph 164 of the report which states "Leaseholders receive the residents' newsletter every three months". Meanwhile on page 11 of this quarter's residents' newsletter that I never received it is announced that "from 2011 we will reduce Home to three times a year, rather than four".
We will be detailing other findings in the report in due course.
