You won’t (unsurprisingly) read it on the Council website, but the transfer of the Council’s housing stock in the west of Salford to new social landlord City West on Monday has been postponed.
The Council has already suffered one postponement earlier this year, and the original planned date was 2007, but this new delay is particularly embarassing because everything was all set to go - tenants have already received a newsletter telling them that transfer would go ahead on Monday, and most New Prospect Housing staff will have been ready to transfer to their new positions on Tuesday morning, but they will now stay put in their old positions for the time being.
I hope that the Council are able to iron out the remaining problems as quickly as possible. Proposed improvements for residents are already likely to be delayed, and any considerable delay to transfer will be ruinously expensive for the Council - money that we simply don’t have thanks to Labour’s financial irresponsibility.
In the meantime, tenants who have any concerns about the transfer should ring 0800 328 4599. For repairs or rent enquires tenants should continue to ring New Prospect until further notice.
expensive! today i sat on the scrutiny commitee and i felt like they were playing monopoly… Perhaps i should find the dictionary term for budget? and pass it on. I did offer my copy of all you need to know about budgets to them but no takers. Are well i am looking forward to the next budget rounds. With your lot scapping council tax there is one less set of figures to worry about…
Joe