I live in one of the many Cornish Style Flats that are dotted around Putson in Hereford. I have been here for 12 years and like many others see and live with the ups and downs of these type of properties. Just two years ago Hereford Housing spent I imagine an enormous amount of money painting the exterior of these properties. Those of us living on the ground floors were given a choice of a selection of colours available, and over a period of several months Long Meadow, Winston Road, Hoarwithy Road, the Homestead, Ridgeway Avenue and Holme Lacy Road, all received a make over. And very nice too they all looked.
Just last week Hereford Housing recommenced work on the same properties starting in the Homestead re-roofing and installing new windows, fair enough the windows needed doing (I know mine do) and some people have been having problems with leaky roofs and we had heard that the properties were due to be re-roofed in 2014. What I don't understand is why now when only two years ago all the properties were painted, are they now being rendered and insulated. Yes it will hopefully improve the insulation values of these properties and improve energy saving values. Which is a good thing for the tenants, but why did Herefordshire Housing waste so much money repainting them what is a relatively short time ago.
I have tried to phone Herefordshire Housing about it, but no one was availabe to answer my questions.
I was further annoyed to today to receive a phone call from a window company today asking me if I was available to have my windows changed. Whilst as I mentioned earlier in my post that my windows need doing I have received no official communications from Hereford Housing about what works are to be carried out on my home or who will be undertaking them. I have the good sense to ring Hereford Housing to check whether this window company were legit. But my concern is that with the fact that there are many people out there willing to take the vulnerable and abuse them, by using Hereford Housing works program to enter people's homes acting as bogus contractors. I have rang Hereford Housing about this and expressed my concerns about their lack of communications with their tenants about the works programme. They did sort of thank me for raising this point, and suggested that perhaps they should do a leaflet drop to tell their tenants about the works programme in this area. For a housing association who claims to care about its tenants, I feel they are doing a very shoddy job.