COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER SUMMER 2014 SCOTTISH SOCIAL HOUSING CHARTER The Charter sets out the standards the Scottish Parliament expects of us. Our tenants should be involved in agreeing the format and content of our annual report to them on our Charter performance. Tenants must also be involved in the ongoing scrutiny of our performance against the Charter outcomes. We are absolutely delighted to announce that on the 24th June we held the inaugural meeting of our Charter Focus Group. The Group had been provided with some background information as to what was required of them and a very productive and enjoyable couple of hours was then spent addressing some of the issues regarding the report we will produce in October.
BURNS WYND SCOOPS AWARDS! Ayrshire Housing’s latest development at Burns Wynd, Maybole has received a prestigious Saltire Society Housing Design Award. The award was presented to the architect Roan Rutherford by the Local Government and Planning Minister Derek Mackay at a ceremony in Edinburgh. The award’s guest chair Eleanor McAllister said “the panel thought that the houses had been both designed and built with a real sense of delight. This is reflected in the positive reaction of the residents we met to their new homes”. The scheme consists of 13 wheelchair accessible houses arranged in a dramatic terrace on the edge of Maybole. At the same ceremony, the contractor Ashleigh (Scotland) Ltd received a Good Building commendation for the quality of their work from the Chartered Institute of Building. Last month, the scheme was judged the best affordable housing development at the Scottish Design Awards.
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