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Common Property, Common PovertyAnn Flint & Associates
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This report examines the thorny issue of dealing with communal repairs in the private sector in Scotland. 400,000 households live in tenement or flatted properties where there is a joint responsibility for repairing and maintaining the common parts including external walls, stairwells and roofs. It can be notoriously difficult to get agreement to take action and to be able to finance that action.
A number of ambitious but necessary proposals are made by the report to address this issue. These include a mandatory system for comprehensive property management, building reserve funds and regular condition surveys, a review of the current grants system and the use of tax incentives.
The report will be of interest to people working in the field of private sector house conditions. It will also be of interest to local authority and RSL housing managers who have RTB flats located alongside their own.
Price: £15.00 ISBN: 1-903208-58-0 Order no: 526 Published: March 2003
Contents
COMMON PROPERTY OR COMMON POVERTY
- Introduction
- Experience elsewhere
- The results of neglect
- Flat ownership
- Flat owners
- Disrepair costs
- The Case Studies
- Conclusions
ACTION SO FAR ON COMMON PROPERTIES
- Title Conditions Bill
- Tenement (Scotland) Bill
- The Housing Improvement Task Force
- The Edinburgh Stair Partnership
FROM COMMON POVERTY TO COMMON WEALTH
- The need for intervention
- Information
- Encouraging communal action on repairs
- Property management arrangements
- Persuading owners to save for repairs
- Encouraging ongoing repair and maintenance
- Dealing effectively with non-paying owners
- Reviewing how public subsidy is made available for repairs
CONCLUSIONS
- Enforcement of better communal management and maintenance
- Financing repairs
- Financial incentives
- Advice agencies
- Owners associations
- E-government
- Timescale
AN ACTION PLAN FOR COMMON PROPERTIES
- Focus of the CIH approach
- A realistic time plan
- Short-term action
APPENDIX 1
- Case Study: Tenement Survey Inspection Report
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