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  Derby Homes Limited was formed by Derby City Council in 2002 to manage and maintain its council housing. The Council awarded us with a five year contract which came to an end in 2007.
• The Council have awarded Derby Homes with a new contract for the period 2007-12. The new contract was signed in the Mayors Reception Room in the Council House on 5 July 2007.
• The next five years will bring lots of new challenges, such as:
• • working with Councillors and other partners to introduce neighbourhood management to make all council estates stronger,
  safer and cleaner
  • implementing an environmental strategy to improve energy efficiency and recycling in the way we work and in all Council housing
  • modernising our services by using computers and the website www.derbyhomes.org to improve services and information for customers
  • building new affordable homes to meet the needs of Derby people.
• Whatever the future holds, Derby Homes remains committed to working with the Council to provide the people of Derby with the best housing service in the country. We are proud to be the only housing organisation to have TWICE been awarded 3 stars for excellent services and excellent prospects for improvement by the Audit Commission inspectors. But we know we are not perfect.
• The Audit Commission in 2006 identified weaknesses and made a series of recommendations to improve our services.
• We have used the last 12 months to tackle these, for example by:
• • improving performance and publicity for our £800,000 a year disabled adaptations programme
  • introducing estate inspections in a systematic way so that communal areas on estates and blocks of flats are improved
  • improved grass cutting and grounds maintenance on estates
• We asked Ashfield Homes to inspect the way we had implemented the Audit Commission recommendations, and they gave us 9 out of 10 for our efforts, not perfect but independent evidence that we have continually improved services. Tenants have said this as well with satisfaction with landlords services increased from 77% in 2003 to 82% in 2006.
• We are proud of our achievements and we would like to give a BIG Derby Homes thank you to all tenants, leaseholders, board
  members, councillors, staff and our partner organisations for their hard work, enthusiasm and support.
• You are all stars

Dennis Rees - Chair of the Board

Phil Davies - Chief Executive