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My Estate Action Plan

Estate Action Plans are resident-led plans that help to deliver the changes you want to see on your estate.

Scottish Towers

Estate contacts                                                            

Housing service officer 

Richard Dacres

Action plans

Date agreed: March 2020
Date to be reviewed: The plan is reviewed each month. If you have an issue you’d like us to address please contact us so these can be considered as part of the next review.

 

Your estate priorities
  • communal cleaning
  • more plants and flowers needed in locations across the three towers
  • youths using the communal areas to congregate and smoke drugs
  • not of enough street parking for residents
  • improve community cohesion
  • concierge’s shutter in Edinburgh House broken

 

Action                                               Due date
TBC  
   

 

Action delivered                                                Delivered on
An action raised at the start of the COVID19 lock down, the cleaning team increased the level of cleaning to address the increased risk of contamination in communal areas March 2020
The housing team received funding and commissioned our contractors to provide additional planting. In addition, planting was provided as part of the refurbishment works to the car park  July 2020
The shutter to concierge area was repaired in April of this year April 2020
HSO contacted vulnerable residents periodically to ensure their well being during the pandemic and sign post them to service they may require. Westminster Council also wrote to all residents explaining the measures being taken to keep them safe and provide a service to them. March 2020
All residents were written to regarding parking on the estate and the implementation of the traffic management order which is now in place  August 2020
Block letter sent to residents regarding people smoking in communal parts December 2020

Residents can report issues of dog fouling online at

https://www.westminster.gov.uk/recycling-and-rubbish/street-cleaning-and-cleansing/report-dog-fouling

February 2021 
Cleaning has improved especially to the entrances to the blocks.    May 2021
Signs put up on the Scottish Towers estate regarding dog fouling. June 2021
Confirmation that five new trees will be planted in the area. Planting period is between October and March. August 2021
Main gate to Falkirk House has been repaired.                       October 2021

You can tell us your local housing priorities for your estate by completing our quick five minute survey on the link below.
 

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Published: 6 January 2021

Last updated: 2 October 2023