Rother area panel update

Richard Gorman, who joined the Panel in May this year has now become Chair.  Maria Burr, the outgoing Chair, has had to step down as she is now a resident of Sentinel Housing.  However, being highly valued, she will remain as an independent member.

Stuart Hockley who is a Shared Owner of a Radian property has also joined the panel and attended his first official meeting in September.

The panel has worked hard on their key priorities for the year. Members  agreed on a new and improved void standard for empty homes, based on their views as residents.  This has formed part of the first phase of improving a resident’s experience of moving home.  The second phase will look at how much this will look at the cost implications and how it will work in practice.

The Panel agreed to look at two car parking hotspots, one in Bordon and the other in Headley Down.   They aim to come up with some options to improve the parking issues.  If successful this could be rolled out into other areas.

The results of our last customer satisfaction survey showed that 28% of the Rother residents taking part still felt that their views were not being taken into consideration.  We still have some vacancies on the Rother Area Panel so why not join and help change people’s minds!

Alternatively, you can now contact an area panel member by sending them an email – so let them know what you think.  Their email addresses are:

• Richard Gorman (Chair)                 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Joanne Reid (Vice Chair)              This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Jennifer Ramsay (resident)                       This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Bruce Cooper (resident)                 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Mike Findlay (leaseholder)                        This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Stuart Hockley (shared owner)      This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Maria Burr (independent)               This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Bob Ayer (EHDC representative)  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Kathy Hine (independent)               This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

Funding applications the Panel have approved so far this year:

 

COMMUNITY FUNDING APPLICATIONS

• Senior Citizens’ Lunch Club in Liphook - £1000 to help the Club continue as previous funding had been withdrawn.
• Relate (North East Hants & Borders region) - £1000 to help set up a new Relate centre in the Aldershot or Basingstoke area
• Headley Down Community Association - £1000 towards keeping a Community Development Worker on the Heatherlands Estate in Headley Down
• Butserfest - £1500 towards a music festival aimed at 13 to 25 year olds
• Life Education Wessex - £1500 to help this organisation provide every primary aged child in Hampshire the chance to benefit from their programme of health & drug prevention education

LIFE IMPROVEMENT GRANT APPLICATIONS

• Bramley Close, Alton - £400 to help a group of residents improve a communal garden
• Leslie Nation Court, Petersfield  - £1670 towards installing a fob entry system at our supported housing scheme
• Tawny Grove, Four Marks - £100 for a rain water butt for the rear communal garden to help grow fruit and veg
• First Avenue, Horndean - £5000 to pay for security fencing around the bungalows of some of our older residents

Kick Start Funding applications:

• £300 to help a young person living in one of our supported schemes the chance to attend various beauty courses and hopefully gain future employment.
• £180 towards football sport equipment to help a young person take part in his sports course at college

 

If you want to find out more about the grants that Radian offer, you can either:

• Contact Radian Direct on 0300 123 1567 and ask to be put through to the Community Involvement Team
• Look on our website www.radian.co.uk
• Pick up one of the grant funding leaflets from any of our reception areas.