During 2010/11 we will be spending £11.5 million on our investment programme.
We have already undertaken the following work in Widnes:
Bankfield Road
An investment of £2.2m has meant we will delivered the following:
- Replaced timber envelopes with brick skin cavity walls
- Renewed windows & external doors
- Carried out asbestos surveys & removal
- New Kitchens, Bathrooms, Heating and rewires
- Repositioned stud walls & plastering
- Over boarding to ceilings
- DPC replacement
- Decoration
- Steps & handrail to rear elevation
- Boundary & intermediate fencing and gates
- Making good driveways
- Clearing garden debris and Returfing
- Replacing damaged paving to pathways
- Provision of wheelie bin storage
On Lodge Road we have we have carried out work on:
Maisonettes
- Replacing window units (not frames)
- Replacing timber cladding to the front external fabric of the block
- Overhauling the front veranda handrails
- Redecorating communal stairwells
- Replacing windows within the communal stairwell.
Shops
- Replacing shutters
- Electrical upgrade
- Replacing doors and windows to the front
- Replacing rear gates
- Repainting of the stall risers (section of concrete below the display windows)
We are due to begin phase 2 on Lodge Road in October, work will be complete in February 2012.