APSE Housing, construction and building maintenance seminar 2016
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The context for housing and building maintenance services continues to develop at a rapid pace. The range of topics which impact on local authority services is vast whilst the need for managers to keep abreast of developments in order to provide a tenant centred service remains key.
This seminar will look at a number of these key themes whilst balancing strategic and operational topics. The supply of housing is a topic which continues to have a high profile following the general election. There will be presentations from local authorities who have established innovative ways of encouraging development for the benefit of the local population. There will also be a presentation on new approaches to bring empty properties back into use.
Speakers will be predominantly from local authorities and ALMOs all of whom have experience and expertise of service delivery in difficult times and of managing change. The popular approach of concentrating on case studies will continue and the description of how issues are addressed within specific organisations by managers with similar experience and responsibilities to the audience will remain as an appropriate method of interaction between the speaker and audience.
Speaker presentations:
Homes for All; Findings of the APSE / TCPA Research
Speaker: Mo Baines, APSE, Head of Communication and Coordination
Setting up a local housing company
Speaker: Elizabeth Wood, Walker Morris
Homes for a £1 – Liverpool’s innovation to bring homes back into use
Speaker: Tony Mousdale , Empty Homes Manager, Liverpool City Council
Harrogate – New build council homes
Speaker: Madeleine Bell, Head of Housing and Property, Harrogate Borough Council
Speaker: Colin McInnes, APSE Solutions Associate
Adopting a strategy for sustainable energy in social housing
Speaker: Jon Andrews, Planned Works Manager, Housing Leeds, Leeds City Council
The Downsizer Initiative – freeing up family homes
Speaker: Clive Skidmore, Head of Housing Development, Birmingham City Council
Speed dating: Getting your tenants in new homes fast!
Speaker: Ray Noble, WeLink Energy
Using new technologies to save money and generate income
Speaker: Willie O’Brien, Building Services Co-ordinator, South Lanarkshire Council
Gas safe register – are you compliant?
Speaker: Kevin Winship, Gas Safe
Promoting excellence in public services
APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence) is a not for profit unincorporated association working with over 300 councils throughout the UK. Promoting excellence in public services, APSE is the foremost specialist in local authority frontline services, hosting a network for frontline service providers in areas such as waste and refuse collection, parks and environmental services, cemeteries and crematorium, environmental health, leisure, school meals, cleaning, housing and building maintenance.
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