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  • Applying For A Home

    Find out everything you need to know about filling in your Durham Key Options application and bidding on our properties.

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  • Providing Quality Sustainable Homes

    Our tenants expect to live in homes that are safe, warm, high quality and sustainable. We are committed to providing homes that are desirable and that our tenants are proud to live in. Our Providing Quality Sustainable Homes Strategy sets out 3 key objectives and 49 key actions to deliver over the next 3 years.

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  • Building and Acquiring Sustainable Homes

    Building and Acquiring Sustainable Homes is our strategy map to delivering new, high quality, sustainable homes, which meet the needs of our tenants, in the places they choose to live. Our strategy sets out three objectives and 27 key actions to deliver over the next three years.

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  • Moving into a new build Home / Your Home / Moving In / Moving into a new build
  • Supporting Sustainable Tenancies Home / About Us / Plan A 2022-2025 / Supporting Sustainable Tenancies
  • Looking After Your Home

    To apply for permission to alter your home, just get in touch, giving full details of the work you intend to carry out.

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  • Planet A

    We are in a climate emergency - there’s no Planet B! Planet A is our strategy map to a greener future, ensuring we act now to create environmentally sustainable futures for generations to come. Our strategy sets out seven objectives and 17 key actions to deliver over the next three years.

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  • Supporting Sustainable Places

    We are determined to enable and deliver strong and sustainable places, that are greener and that support people and partners to thrive. We are a unique anchor in local communities that can bring about amazing transformation through physical regeneration, supplying new affordable homes, getting people into employment and bringing communities together.

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  • Our Plan A Priorities Home / About Us / Plan A 2022-2025 / Our Plan A Priorities
  • Plan A 2022-2025

    Plan A is our map to a better future, previously business strategy. (Governance)

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  • Background

    Plan A is our map to a better future, previously business strategy.

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  • Transforming Customer Experience and Digital Services

    Providing a brilliant customer experience is in everything that we do and this strategy sets out how we will transform customer services and business efficiency through listening and acting on customer feedback, using data well and providing modern digital services.

    Home / About Us / Plan A 2022-2025 / Transforming Customer Experience and Digital Services
  • Mutual Exchange

    You can register your home for Mutual Exchange through Durham Key Options, allowing you to swap your home with another social housing tenant looking to move into either a smaller or larger home.

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  • Your Support

    We have a number of support offers to help our tenants live comfortably and feel safe in their homes.

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  • Home Safety

    We have a legal responsibility to carry out regular gas, fire and asbestos checks to ensure that your home is safe and efficient.

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  • Your Home

    Everything you need to know about reporting your repairs, paying your rent, moving in, looking after your home, ending your tenancy and managing your tenancy online.

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  • Moving In

    Our handy Moving In guide will help you to get set up and settled in your new home as quickly and easily as possible.

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  • Renting A Home

    We have set out set out both of our responsibilities during your tenancy, what services we’ll provide and what your rights and responsibilities as a tenant are.

    Home / Your Support / Renting A Home
  • Providing Quality Sustainable Homes

    We aim to ensure our tenants are living in warm, safe, high quality, sustainable homes in a place they are proud to live.

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2023/24 / Providing Quality Sustainable Homes
  • Environmental Sustainability Home / Frequently Asked Questions / Environmental Sustainability
  • Environmental Sustainability

    We are committed to taking positive climate and ecological action through our Planet A Strategy. We are working hard to embed environmental sustainability into all our operations to reduce our environmental impacts and carbon emissions.

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  • Providing Quality Sustainable Homes

    We aim to provide you with safe, warm, high-quality, and sustainable homes.

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2022/23 / Providing Quality Sustainable Homes
  • Applying for a home Home / Your Support / Renting A Home / Applying for a home
  • About Us

    We are an award winning not for profit housing association based in County Durham. We offer more than just a home. We help improve the lives of the people living in our homes and in our communities. Read our Plan A, financial statements, annual report, value for money self assessment. Find out our roles and responsibilities.

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  • Building and Acquiring Sustainable Homes

    We aim to build and acquire additional high quality, sustainable homes, which meet the needs and aspirations of tenants, in places where they are proud to live.

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2023/24 / Building and Acquiring Sustainable Homes
  • Home Improvement Programme

    Our home improvement programme runs each year and aims to make sure that our homes are high in quality and provide a safe and welcoming environment for you to live in.

    Home / Your Home / Looking After Your Home / Home Improvement Programme
  • Building and Acquiring Sustainable Homes

    We aim to build and buy new homes in the right locations within our local area to ensure a mix of much needed homes that are designed to suit a range of needs.

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2022/23 / Building and Acquiring Sustainable Homes
  • Improving your home Home / About Us / Annual Report 2020/21 / Improving your home
  • Providing Quality Sustainable Homes

    We aim to provide you with safe, warm, high-quality, and sustainable homes.

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  • Building and Acquiring Sustainable Homes

    We aim to build and buy the right new homes in the right locations in our local area to ensure a mix of much needed homes designed to suit a range of needs.

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2021/22 / Building and Acquiring Sustainable Homes
  • Getting winter ready

    As the temperature starts to drop, we all start to feel the costly pinch around this time of year with increased energy usage and extra spending. We’re here to support you where we can.

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  • Contact Us

    Get in touch by telephone, email and LiveChat and read our helpful frequently asked questions.

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  • Keeping you cool in your home

    Temperatures over the coming days are set to be well above average reaching 30 degrees by the middle of next week.  We have some handy tips to keep you and your home cool.

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  • Previous Improvements and Regeneration Projects

    We work with you and our partners to improve the quality of life in the place in which you live. We work collectively to make the places you live in more sustainable including your homes, the land around them and the facilities and services that serve them. Find out more about the successful improvement projects we have completed in the past.

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  • Our Lettable Standard

    The Lettable Standard is the minimum standard of repair that you can expect to find when you rent one of our properties.

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  • Making Alterations To Your Home

    We recognise that you may wish to make alterations to your home, so it's important that you understand what type of improvements may require our permission or an inspection.

    Home / Your Home / Looking After Your Home / Making Alterations To Your Home
  • Increasing energy prices

    From 1 April, households that are currently on a standard variable tariff will see their bills rise when the new energy price cap comes into force. The new cap will be announced in February. It is expected that costs will jump from £1,277 per year for the average household to around £2,000, an increase of more than 50%.

    Home / Your Support / Money Support / Increasing energy prices
  • Building and acquiring new homes Home / About Us / Annual Report 2020/21 / Building and acquiring new homes
  • Greener Livin

    An Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) shows how energy efficient your property is by giving it a rating between A and G, with A being very energy efficient and G being not very energy efficient.

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  • Planet A

    We aim to make a positive contribution to creating environmentally sustainable futures for generations to come, with tenants thriving in low energy homes and greener places.

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2023/24 / Planet A
  • Performance

    Our Performance Management Framework aims to ensure we deliver efficient and effective services that are continually improved and aligned to Plan A – our Business Strategy.

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  • Annual Report 2023/24

    Welcome to the 2023/24 Annual Report for you, our tenants. I am delighted to be able to share the highlights from what has been a challenging time for us all.

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2023/24
  • Anti-social behaviour – Legal powers

    Parts 1 to 4 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 provide six powers for use by local agencies, summarised in the table below. Taken together, these options provide a broad enforcement regime with local partners in most circumstances.

    Home / Your Support / Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) / Anti-social behaviour – Legal powers
  • Your Smoke Alarms

    It's important to make sure your fire alarms are in working order. Find out what you can do to make sure your family is safe in your home and what to do if your alarm stops working

    Home / Your Home / Home Safety / Your Smoke Alarms
  • Supporting your tenancy Home / About Us / Annual Report 2020/21 / Supporting your tenancy
  • The Courts, Shildon

    Since 2018 we have been working hard alongside you to give you the homes you love in a place you want to live.

    Home / Your Community / Jubilee Fields Estate, Shildon / The Courts, Shildon
  • Supporting Sustainable Tenancies

    We are determined to enable and deliver strong and sustainable places and to deliver this our tenancies must be sustainable. We want you to feel happy living in comfortable and manageable homes.

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2022/23 / Supporting Sustainable Tenancies
  • Supporting Sustainable Tenancies

    We aim to offer services and support so that our tenants are happy, empowered and living in comfortable and manageable homes in sustainable places and we are committed to helping tenants sustain their tenancy.

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2023/24 / Supporting Sustainable Tenancies
  • How We Treat Damp and Mould Home / Your Home / Looking After Your Home / Damp and Mould / How We Treat Damp and Mould
  • Types of Damp

    Rising damp, penetrating damp and condensation are the three most common types of damp in residential homes.

    Home / Your Home / Looking After Your Home / Damp and Mould / Types of Damp
  • Benefits

    Find out more about what support we offer to help you understand benefits and check what you may be entitled too.

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  • Home

    Local housing provider managing and letting over 8,400 homes in County Durham, Spennymoor, Chilton, Ferryhill, Newton Aycliffe, Trimdon, Sedgefield. Provide great homes to rent, regenerating communities and building new homes for tenants.

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  • Rent to buy

    Rent to Buy is a government designed scheme that allows working households to rent a home at 20% below the open market rent (Intermediate rent). This can provide you with the opportunity to save for a deposit to go on and purchase your home in the future.

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  • Work And Training Support

    Livin Futures can help you to improve your CV, develop your skills and find a job that is right for you.

    Home / Your Support / Work And Training Support
  • Local offers

    We worked with over 400 of our tenants to help shape five pledges known as local offers to improve services that are important to them.

    Home / About Us / Local offers
  • Tenant Satisfaction Measures

    The Regulator for Social Housings (RSH) has introduced a new suite of performance measures that all registered providers and local authorities with housing stock must collect data for from 1 April 2023.

    Home / About Us / Tenant Satisfaction Measures
  • Report A Repair

    Report and book your repairs and out of hours repairs quickly and easily using our online repairs system, and one of our friendly operatives will visit your home at a time to suit you.

    Home / Your Home / Report A Repair
  • Choice Based Lettings

    Our homes in Darlington, Hartlepool and Stockton are allocated through different Choice Based Lettings systems to ones located in County Durham. If you’d like to apply for one of our homes in these areas, you must apply through the correct system, we cannot accept applications directly.

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  • Repairs

    Everything you need to know about tracking and logging your repairs online.

    Home / Frequently Asked Questions / Repairs
  • New Tenants

    Everything you need to know about moving in and getting your gas and electric switched on in your new home.

    Home / Frequently Asked Questions / New Tenants
  • Damp and Mould

    If you've noticed patches of mould in your home, we want to hear from you so we can take steps to fix it.

    Home / Your Home / Looking After Your Home / Damp and Mould
  • Travellers Green, Newton Aycliffe

    We worked with the community to transform this area into a beautiful, high quality, green space surrounded by new affordable energy efficient homes.

    Home / Your Community / Previous Improvements and Regeneration Projects / Travellers Green, Newton Aycliffe
  • Delivering a brilliant customer experience Home / About Us / Annual Report 2020/21 / Delivering a brilliant customer experience
  • What you can do to help?

    There are many different actions that you can take to reduce your environmental impact, run a greener home, and live in a greener way.

    Home / About Us / Environmental Sustainability / What you can do to help?
  • Transforming Customer Experience and Digital Services

    Providing a brilliant customer experience is in everything that we do, and we are committed to transforming customer services by listening and acting on customer feedback and using customer data to design and deliver modern digital services.

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2021/22 / Transforming Customer Experience and Digital Services
  • Planet A

    This year we worked with a consortium of partners in the North East and Yorkshire and bid successfully for £1.1m of Government funding, through the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero which we matched to support improvements to the energy efficiency of our tenants homes.

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2022/23 / Planet A
  • Supporting Sustainable Places

    We are determined to level up our places. We strive to support and deliver strong and sustainable places, that are greener and that support people and partners to thrive.

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2022/23 / Supporting Sustainable Places
  • Your Home Documents Home / Your Support / Your Documents / Your Home Documents
  • Western Estate - Local Offers

    In 2021 we engaged with our tenants living on the Western Estate to find out what is important to them. This engagement has allowed us to form Local Offers for the estate which we will be working on with residents and partners until the end of 2024. Collectively we have managed to deliver the following so far.

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  • Our People

    Meet our Leadership Team made up of Alan Boddy, Sean Brodie, Helen Darby, Graham Darby and Paul Stephens.

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  • Privacy and Cookies

    In accordance with applicable data protection legislation, we are committed to protecting your rights and privacy when you use our services. Livin Housing Limited is registered as a data controller with the Information Commissioner’s Office.

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  • Aids and Adaptations

    If you, or a family member, are struggling due to a long-term illness, disability or mobility issues we may be able to help.

    Home / Your Home / Aids and Adaptations
  • New Model Of Shared Ownership

    This government scheme is for those who are renting a new home delivered through the Affordable Homes Programme 2021-2026.

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  • Reinventing Homes Report

    We partnered with the CIH and ITN to report on how effective regeneration can transform communities by creating safe, warm, affordable, and sustainable homes, whilst enhancing wellbeing.

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  • Newton Aycliffe West Improvements

    Find out more about the Western Estate community regeneration project at Newton Aycliffe.

    Home / Your Community / Newton Aycliffe West Improvements
  • Getting Involved

    Find out how you can get involved and give feedback to help us improve our services.

    Home / About Us / Getting Involved
  • Our Board

    Meet our Board members and view the committee make up.

    Home / About Us / Our Board
  • Find Us On Social Media

    We provide you with the information you need to be keep you up to date on changes in our services, latest news, job vacancies, community activities and lots more.

    Home / Contact Us / Find Us On Social Media
  • Gas Servicing - Keeping You Safe

    The safety of you and your family is our priority. By carrying out a regular gas service, this helps to maintain higher levels of safety, health, money and also identify potential problems which may occur.

    Home / Your Home / Looking After Your Home / Gas Servicing - Keeping You Safe
  • Improving your community Home / About Us / Annual Report 2020/21 / Improving your community
  • Planet A

    We are committed to making our homes and places more sustainable and energy efficient, helping you to live greener lives.

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2021/22 / Planet A
  • Supporting Sustainable Places

    We are committed to enabling and delivering strong and sustainable places, that support people to thrive.

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2021/22 / Supporting Sustainable Places
  • Supporting Sustainable Tenancies

    We are determined to enable and deliver strong and sustainable places and to deliver this our tenancies must be sustainable. We track the sustainability of our tenancies and this helps us to focus our support interventions where needed.

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2021/22 / Supporting Sustainable Tenancies
  • Transforming Customer Experience and Digital Services

    Rising energy prices and a cost of living crisis meant that the services we delivered to support our customers in 2022/23 were needed more than ever. Throughout these challenging times we continued our journey to deliver a brilliant customer experience in everything we do.

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  • Transforming Customer Experience and Digital Services

    We aim to always deliver reliable, convenient and easy to access services and keep you informed about things that matter to you.

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2023/24 / Transforming Customer Experience and Digital Services
  • Supporting Sustainable Places

    We aim to support beautiful, sustainable and thriving places that meet your aspirations and nurture a sense of pride and belonging.

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2023/24 / Supporting Sustainable Places
  • Finance

    How we spend your rent

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2023/24 / Finance
  • Homes England Funding

    Homes England is the non-departmental public body that funds new affordable housing in England. It was founded on 1 January 2018 to replace the Homes and Communities Agency.

    Home / About Us / Homes England Funding
  • Dementia Support

    A dementia diagnosis can be devastating, but it does not mean you cannot remain independent in your home. We are committed to supporting you and your family to make sure that living with Dementia can still mean having a full and meaningful life.

    Home / Your Support / Dementia Support
  • Jubilee Fields Estate - Local offers

    Following a survey to our tenants to establish what really matters to them about life on the estate, we further engaged with 13 of the 69 responding tenants to help us shape four pledges. These pledges are known as local offers and we will work collectively upon achieving these going forward.

    Home / Your Community / Jubilee Fields Estate, Shildon / Jubilee Fields Estate - Local offers
  • Customer Feedback and Complaints

    You can share your views about Livin to help us improve the services we provide.

    Home / Customer Feedback and Complaints
  • North East Housing Partnership

    The North East Housing Partnership brings together social housing providers from around the North East to work collectively to achieve shared goals to improve communities and to deliver more social housing.

    Home / About Us / North East Housing Partnership
  • Your Community

    We work closely with tenants, residents, local community groups and a variety of other partners to build safe and stronger places for people to live, work and play.

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  • Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB)

    We want you to feel settled and safe in your home, but we know that sometimes this is not always the case.

    Home / Your Support / Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB)
  • Tenancy visits Home / Your Support / Tenancy visits
  • Our Policies

    You will find our policies here. Policies: Affordable Home Ownership Aids and Adaptations Anti-fraud, Bribery and Corruption Anti Social Behaviour Arrears Management Asbestos Asset Management CCTV Commercial Property Management Complaints, Compliments and Feedback Condition of Property Customer Voice Customer Vulnerability Damp and Mould Development Domestic Abuse

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  • Annual Report 2020/21 Home / About Us / Annual Report 2020/21
  • Annual Report 2021/22

    Welcome to the 2021/22 annual report for you, our tenants.   We are proud to share highlights of how, despite the incredibly challenging economic conditions we continue to face as we emerge from the pandemic, we have been able to support you.

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2021/22
  • Annual Report 2022/23

    Welcome to the 2022/23 Annual Report for you, our tenants. I am delighted to be able to share the highlights from what has been a challenging time for us all.

    Home / About Us / Annual Report 2022/23
  • Ending Your Tenancy

    If the time has come to end your tenancy, you can let us know by completing our online form.

    Home / Your Home / Ending Your Tenancy
  • Customer Feedback

    Find out how you can give feedback and get involved to help us improve our services.

    Home / Frequently Asked Questions / Customer Feedback
  • Opportunities For Young People

    Looking for your next opportunity? Livin Futures can help you find your next step.

    Home / Your Support / Work And Training Support / Opportunities For Young People
  • Home Safety Report Criteria Home / Your Home / Home Safety / Home Safety Report Criteria
  • Finance Home / About Us / Annual Report 2020/21 / Finance
  • Your Summarised Customer Policies

    You will find our policies here. Affordable Home Ownership Aids and Adaptations Anti-fraud, Bribery and Corruption Anti-Social Behaviour Arrears Management Asbestos CCTV Complaints, Compliments and Feedback Condition of Property Customer Voice and Engagement Customer Vulnerability Damp and Mould Development Domestic Abuse Electrical Safety Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

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  • Life Cycles

    Our home improvement programme includes life cycle for the key elements of our homes to make sure they are warm, safe, and high-quality. The timescales are based on government guidance however if an element needs to be changed, this may happen sooner.

    Home / Your Home / Looking After Your Home / Home Improvement Programme / Life Cycles
  • Laurel Court

    Keep up to date with some of the key dates for Laurel Court throughout the regeneration project.

    Home / Your Community / Jubilee Fields Estate, Shildon / The Courts, Shildon / Laurel Court
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  • Community Spaces

    We own and manage several buildings, and the activities in them to bring more opportunities to tenants and residents in our communities.

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  • Summer Holiday Activities

    Fun-filled local activities available in our communities.

    Home / Your Community / Summer Holiday Activities
  • Jubilee Fields Estate, Shildon

    We have been working together with the community since 2018 to improve the quality of life on the estate. We are committed to this long-term and will listen to and act with those residents who wish to get involved.

    Home / Your Community / Jubilee Fields Estate, Shildon
  • Money Support

    Budgeting and benefits to insurance and energy advice, we can help you make the most out of your money by providing expert financial support.

    Home / Your Support / Money Support
  • Preventing and Tackling Fraud

    We adopt a zero tolerance to fraud, if you suspect someone if committing fraud against us you can report it online.

    Home / Your Support / Preventing and Tackling Fraud
  • Ways We Listened to and Acted on Your Complaints

    Listening to your feedback and working jointly with you through virtual meetings, one to one sessions and online surveys we have made improvements to our services.

    Home / Customer Feedback and Complaints / Ways We Listened to and Acted on Your Complaints
  • Make Things Right: Social housing complaints campaign

    The Government recently launched the ‘Make Things Right’ campaign, which is designed to empower residents in making their voices heard when they have problems with their home and help raise awareness amongst social housing residents for how they can make a complaint.

    Home / Customer Feedback and Complaints / Make Things Right: Social housing complaints campaign
  • Performance and Service Improvement Report Home / Customer Feedback and Complaints / Performance and Service Improvement Report
  • Our 2023/24 Lettings Data

    The Housing Ombudsman now require us to publish our lettings data to keep you informed on the lettings activity in your area. Find the lettings data for your area below.

    Home / About Us / Performance / Our 2023/24 Lettings Data
  • Finance Home / About Us / Annual Report 2021/22 / Finance
  • Finance Home / About Us / Annual Report 2022/23 / Finance
  • Your Support Documents Home / Your Support / Your Documents / Your Support Documents
  • Digital Unite tips and guides

    Here are some helpful tips, guides and other resources if you need any refresher training following our support.

    Home / Your Support / Digital Support / Digital Unite tips and guides
  • Almond Court flats

    Keep up to date with some of the key dates for Almond Court throughout the regeneration project.

    Home / Your Community / Jubilee Fields Estate, Shildon / The Courts, Shildon / Almond Court flats
  • Aspen Court

    Keep up to date with some of the key dates for Aspen Court throughout the regeneration project.

    Home / Your Community / Jubilee Fields Estate, Shildon / The Courts, Shildon / Aspen Court
  • Spruce Court

    Keep up to date with some of the key dates for Spruce Court throughout the regeneration project.

    Home / Your Community / Jubilee Fields Estate, Shildon / The Courts, Shildon / Spruce Court
  • Managing Condensation Home / Your Home / Looking After Your Home / Damp and Mould / Managing Condensation
  • Contact Your Housing Adviser

    Your Housing Advisor is on hand to answer any questions or queries you have related to your tenancy, manage any anti-social behaviour issues and provide support to help you sustain your tenancy.

    Home / Your Support / Contact Your Housing Adviser
  • Ways We're Helping You

    Have a read of some of our customer's stories and find out about all the different ways we're helping them get back into work and training.

    Home / Your Support / Work And Training Support / Ways We're Helping You
  • Apprenticeship Support

    Our Livin Futures team can support you into an apprenticeship role by helping you to find local vacancies, improving your job hunting skills, building a strong CV and interview preparation.

    Home / Your Support / Work And Training Support / Local Vacancies / Apprenticeship Support
  • Uploading your documents to Durham Key Options

    Find out in our short video how you upload your documents to Durham Key Options.

    Home / Uploading your documents to Durham Key Options
  • Value For Money

    The reports listed below outline how much our services cost, how they compare to other housing associations, how efficiencies are being made and how all of this contributes to providing quality homes, support and vibrant communities.

    Home / About Us / Value For Money
  • Garages

    We are pleased to be able to offer our tenants and residents the opportunity to rent a garage or garage plot from us, providing you with the additional space you require.

    Home / Garages
  • Search Results

    Browse our site using our on-site search to find the page you're looking for.

    Home / Search Results
  • Domestic Abuse

    Find out more about the help and services we have available if you or someone you know is a victim of domestic abuse.

    Home / Your Support / Domestic Abuse
  • Condition of Property Home / Your Support / Condition of Property
  • Your Documents

    Take a look at some of our guides, policies, leaflets and other helpful documents.

    Home / Your Support / Your Documents
  • Careers With Us

    Are you ready to be part of something great? We need people who are passionate about improving lives and communities. Choose a career with us and benefit from our learning and development opportunities and excellent staff rewards.

    Home / About Us / Careers With Us
  • Housing Ombudsman

    If you’re not happy with the final response us, you are entitled to make a complaint to the Housing Ombudsman.

    Home / Customer Feedback and Complaints / Housing Ombudsman
  • Gas Servicing

    The safety of you and your family is our priority. By law we have to make sure that a gas service is carried out in your home every year.

    Home / Frequently Asked Questions / Gas Servicing
  • Other

    View our most frequently asked questions relating to property alterations, anti-social behaviour, right to buy and right to acquire.

    Home / Frequently Asked Questions / Other
  • My Livin

    My Livin - Frequently asked questions

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  • My Livin app

    Download the My Livin app now to manage your tenancy from your smartphone. Access exciting new features including trackable repairs, direct messages, live rent account balance information and so much more.

    Home / Contact Us / My Livin app
  • Greener Places Grant

    Apply for a grant to help develop a project that could improve greener spaces, develop greener skills, examine greener energy or deliver a greener life.

    Home / Your Community / Community Grants / Greener Places Grant
  • Skills Foundations

    Are you out of work or looking to gain new skills? Our Skills Foundations can provide you with the skills to put you on a new career path.

    Home / Your Support / Work And Training Support / Skills Foundations
  • Volunteering And Work Experience

    We can help you gain new skills by putting you forward for voluntary work as well as organising work experience.

    Home / Your Support / Work And Training Support / Volunteering And Work Experience
  • Request For Work And Training Support

    Looking to get into employment? We can help you to improve your CV, develop your skills and find a job that is right for you.

    Home / Your Support / Work And Training Support / Request For Work And Training Support
  • Rent is changing for all tenants

    We follow rules set by the government when we calculate annual changes to your rent.  Our teams can support you to plan for these upcoming changes.

    Home / Your Support / Money Support / Rent is changing for all tenants
  • Yorkhill, Spennymoor

    We worked closely with the local community to create a place that people want to live and work in. Find out more about the success of the York Hill community regeneration project.

    Home / Your Community / Previous Improvements and Regeneration Projects / Yorkhill, Spennymoor
  • Ways We Listened to and Acted on Your Voice

    We use information from satisfaction surveys, data on how services are used and feedback from our InsightXchange sessions to make service improvements that make a real difference. Here is some examples of service improvements your voice has helped us to introduce.

    Home / About Us / Getting Involved / Ways We Listened to and Acted on Your Voice
  • Hear from our people

    We have some fantastic people at team Livin with amazing stories about their career journeys.

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  • Our Service Standard Performance Home / About Us / Performance / Our Service Standard Performance
  • Repairs - What To Expect

    Find out what we're doing to carry out your repairs safely throughout the coronavirus crisis.

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  • Anti-Social Behaviour Case Review

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