Welcome to our Customer Annual Report
2023/24

Watch the film to learn more about the projects we’ve been working on and what these mean for you.



Live proud
5,188
Homes we own and manage
(2022/23: 5,185)
97.4%
Customer satisfaction with grounds maintenance
20
Services changed in response to customer feedback

Find out more about our Place Shaping work here
View our Live proud strategy here








Live green
£5.5 million
Invested in existing homes
All new build properties handed over with an
EPC rating of B
View our Live green strategy here

Live happy
9.24
Overall customer satisfaction with homes and services
(Target:8/10)
184
Number of compliments received
(2022/23: 200)
112
Number of complaints received
(2022/23: 178)
94.29%
Satisfaction with how complaints were handled
(2022/23: 97.4%)
Completed an independent perception survey to understand what partners and stakeholders think of us
Received 35 responses:
28 interviewees
7 online responses
Advisers ✓
Community groups ✓
Council officers & politicians ✓
Developers ✓
Peers ✓
With highly-positive feedback:

People and diversity
206
People we employ (full-time equivalents)
(2022/23: 195)
Our employees by ethnicity
Asian Indian
6
Asian Pakistani
3
Black African
1
Black Caribbean
6
Black other
2
Mixed Black carribean
2
Mixed other
3
White Irish
1
White British
163
White other
9
Not known
9
Our leadership members by gender
Female
6
(2022/23: 6)
Male
3
(2022/23: 2)
Our board members by gender
Female
3
(2022/23: 4)
Male
7
(2022/23: 6)
View our Live happy strategy here







Live safe
99.98%
Percentage of homes with GasSafe certificates
(2022/23: 99.8%)
99.92%
Percentage of homes fitted with carbon monoxide detectors
(2022/23: 84.5%)
22 days
Average time to complete routine repairs
(2022/23: 24.9 days)
98%
Emergency repairs completed in target time
(2022/23: 99.1%)
93%
Customer satisfaction with (last) repair
(2022/23: 93.95%)
21.29 days
Average time to relet vacant homes
(2022/23: 31.07 days)
36
New homes built / acquired
(2022/23: 15)
Affordable rent
19
Shared ownership
14
Other
3
View our Live safe strategy here




Financial
£29.9 million
Turnover
(2022/23: 28.5 million)
£4.7 million
Operating surplus
(2022/23: £6.6 million)
£157 million
Value of net assets
(2022/23: £146.5 million)
£2.1 million
Net surplus
(2022/23: £1.9 million)
16%
Operating margin
(2022/23: 22.97%)
How we spent each £1
Interest
6p
Employees
21p
Repairs
24p
Major improvements
12p
New homes
25p
Office & operating costs
12p