The homes are purchased in part, using money from Right to Buy receipts. This is the money the council gets from selling council homes to existing tenants and which it has to use to fund further housing otherwise it has to be repaid to the HM Treasury. Three of the homes are single bedroom and were bought using £600,000 of Government funding for the Next Steps Accommodation Programme. The properties will be used as non-secure tenancies to help those moving on from homelessness. And the scheme is similar to Housing First, where a stable home is given to a vulnerable person who wants a tenancy so they can rebuild their life.
However, the real question is why did we get to this position in Ipswich in the first place? And how do we ensure that going forward we avoid this from happening?
It was reported this week that it will probably cost around £100,000 to just get the pigeon faeces removed from the Paul’s Silo building. It is so caked onto the walls and the floors inside that it requires a mammoth industrial clean to even make it safe to occupy.
No wonder it is costing that much just to remove the poo! Nothing symbolises the problem we have more than this £100,000 figure. It costs this much because the building has been left unoccupied and uncared for over the past 23 years, leaving the bricks to have basically been penetrated by pigeon poo.
However, the real question is why did we get to this position in Ipswich in the first place? And how do we ensure that going forward we avoid this from happening?
It was reported this week that it will probably cost around £100,000 to just get the pigeon faeces removed from the Paul’s Silo building. It is so caked onto the walls and the floors inside that it requires a mammoth industrial clean to even make it safe to occupy.
No wonder it is costing that much just to remove the poo! Nothing symbolises the problem we have more than this £100,000 figure. It costs this much because the building has been left unoccupied and uncared for over the past 23 years, leaving the bricks to have basically been penetrated by pigeon poo.
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PLANS to extend and improve a care home in York have been given the go-ahead - as part of what council chiefs have called a drive to provide high quality accommodation for older people. City of York Council s planning committee agreed plans for the redevelopment work at Haxby Hall care home on Wednesday evening. The work will be carried out by Yorkare Limited, which will also take over the management of the residents’ care, as well as the current staff team, from March 31 this year. A council spokesperson said the extension work and transfer of the care home to Yorkare was in line with the authority s ‘Older People’s Accommodation Programme’ , which aims to deliver 900 units of high quality accommodation.