ISSUE 14 | SUMMER 2012
Gas servicing is vital to maintain safe homes In the past year Gedling Homes provided 2452 gas services. However, during those 12 months, we had two customers who refused us access to undertake this vital, potentially life-saving service. This eventually led to them losing their homes and having to pay ÂŁ425 each towards court costs. Please remember that gas services are free and that carbon monoxide is a silent killer, so this service could save your life.
Hedging their bets for success
Following the successful completion of a pilot scheme to repair insecure hedgerows as part of the External Improvement Programme, Gedling Homes will no longer be replacing established hedgerows with fencing when only a small bit of the hedge is damaged.
Richard Dickinson, Project Manager for Bullock Construction, and Danny Wyer, Project Surveyor for Gedling Homes, have introduced a new environmentally friendly way of repairing hedges. This is also good news for tenants as the savings made can be reinvested into other services for residents. The hedgerow repair scheme involves planting new plants in gaps in the hedge. These are temporarily secured in the gaps while growing, by weaving willow and chestnut pales into the existing hedging to create a natural barrier.
As part of the programme, the contractor will also return to water and tend to the newly planted hedge plants to ensure their establishment. Yvonne Costello, who lives on Coningswath Road where a hedgerow repair has been completed, said: “I am really happy with the repair work that has been done and even more so that the work is environmentally friendly.�
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