Area Boards explained:
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.
You are welcome to attend your local
Area Board meetings, which happen at least four times a
year. You can find out more by selecting your local
area below:
Need to contact the Area Board Members?
Our Tenant Participation Officers look
after our local Area Boards and you can contact them on the local
contact details below:
Who is on the Area
Board?
The Area Boards are made up from existing
local tenant and leaseholder representatives, with the addition of
two local councillors. They are also attended by a
local tenant representative from the main East Kent Housing Board.
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.
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 your
Tenant Participation Officer.
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