Our Local Area Boards have been set up in the four areas of East Kent Housing to make sure that tenants living in those areas have the opportunity to assess how well services are being delivered by East Kent Housing.

The Area Boards are made up of local tenant and leaseholders, with the addition of two local councillors. They are also attended by a local tenant representative from the main East Kent Housing Board.

For more information on Area Boards:

Visit your local Area Board page

Need to contact the Area Board Members?

Our Resident Involvement Team look after our local Area Boards and you can contact them by phoning 01304 872446, or emailing at [email protected]

What do Area Boards do?

Your local Area Board will have a wide variety of responsibilities, including:

  • Enabling local people to express their views, concerns and ideas to improve the housing services they receive and the areas they live in;
  • Reviewing the services that East Kent Housing manage by looking at how well they are performing, and responding to issues brought to their attention by tenants, leaseholders or local councillors;
  • Investigating any areas of service which receive lots of complaints;
  • Reporting to the main East Kent Housing Board on areas that they consider need to be improved;
  • Working with other local resident groups;
  • Nominating members to sit on other groups across all four of our areas and focusing on improving specific areas of our service;
  • Working with the other Area Boards and the East Kent Housing Board to develop the annual service improvement plan.

Can I go to an Area Board meeting?

Yes! All Area Board meetings are open to the public, and will be widely advertised before they take place.

You can find out more about when and where the Area Boards will meet, and how to ask them a question, by visiting the local Area Board pages for Canterbury, Dover, Shepway and Thanet.

To see the dates of Area Board meetings over the coming months click here.

Can I join an Area Board?

Yes, but since Area Boards are made up from the tenants' groups which already exist in your area, the rules for membership of each of those groups apply. You can find out more about routes to membership by contacting a member of the Resident Involvement Team.