Cannock Chase Council

Estate Management

Estate Walks

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The Council's Housing Service plays a vital role towards improving conditions for tenants in the District. We are committed to making our estates places where people are proud and happy to live.

The purpose of the estate walks is to ensure that tenancy breaches and other problems are identified and dealt with as soon as they occur.

To improve our estates we will:

  • Organise and invite you to an estate walk in your area
  • Consult with tenants on estate improvements
  • Work in partnership with others to make your community safer
  • Work in partnership with others to keep communal areas clean, free from rubbish and well maintained
  • Maintain communal grassed areas to an agreed standard
  • Arrange for abandoned vehicles to be removed from land managed by us
  • Remove hate graffiti within 24 hours of notification and all other graffiti within 10 working days
  • If your garden is untidy, we will ask you to cut the hedges, remove the rubbish and put right whatever is causing the problem
  • We will also explain about help we can give such as the Vulnerable Tenants Grass Cutting Service. This service is available to tenants who are aged 80 or over or receive one or more of the following benefits:
    • Attendance Allowance
    • Disability Living Allowance
    • Severe Disablement Allowance
    • War Disablement Allowance
    • Long Term Incapacity Benefit (note long term only)
    • and have NO other household members living with you who are capable of cutting the grass.

Problems which are identified on Estate Walks often need to be referred to other agencies e.g. Highways.  Information about this is included on the Agency Referral download.

If you want to attend the Estate Walks in your street, the Housing Services Estate Management Team would like to hear from you.  If you are interested in taking part, please contact us on 01543 462621, or email us at EMTeam@cannockchasedc.gov.uk giving us your name, address and phone number.

Estate walks information will be publicised in an annual programme and local tenants and residents, particularly those on local tenants and residents groups will be encouraged to join us.  Suggestions on how to improve or combat issues on the estate can be made by participants.

For further information on how your estate walk rating is worked out, please go to the Estate Walk programme 2012-13