Neighbourhood visits

We were delighted to visit your neighbourhoods again this summer.

In Dorset, we visited Dorchester, Bridport, Sherborne, Beaminster, Shaftesbury and Weymouth. In Somerset, we visited Wellington, Taunton, Bridgwater and Yeovil.

We were joined by some of our housing and repairs specialists, members of

our leadership team, local Police Community Support Officers and councillors.

On these visits, we identified some areas that needed further work, including some repairs and grounds maintenance issues which have now been booked in to fix. There were also some untidy gardens spotted that we will work with the customers to improve. We were really pleased to see an improvement in some of the areas we visited when compared to our visits to the same areas last year, in particular in Bridgwater, North Petherton, Yeovil, Taunton and Wellington.

In Dorchester, we dealt with an active leak while visiting Acland Court.

In Sherborne, we noticed the drying areas could do with updating and have ordered some replacement ropes. We also identified items on communal landings which were a fire safety risk and spoke to customers to resolve this.

In Shaftesbury, a fallen fence in a communal carpark has been added to our fence repairs list.

We’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who came along and joined us on the neighbourhood visits. It was great to meet you in person and hear from you about any improvements that are needed where you live.