Useful Contacts
- Dundee Council Housing Pages
- Dundee Council Tenant Participation Pages
- Dundee Council’s Registered Tenants Organisations (known as RTO’s)
- Tenant Information Services - independent advice and training for tenants and tenants groups
- National Landlord and Tenant Participation Advisory Service
- Housing Regulator - Regulating to protect the interests of tenants, people who are homeless, and others who use social landlords’ services.
- Tolerable standards (all tenures)
- Social Housing Standards - for social landlords
- The Scottish Housing Quality Standard (SHQS) - The Scottish Housing Quality Standard (SHQS) was introduced by the Scottish Government in February 2004. The SHQS is a set of broad criteria, covering specific elements, which must all be met if the property is to pass SHQS . The broad criteria specify that social housing must be:
- above the statutory Tolerable Standard;
- free from serious disrepair;
- energy efficient;
- equipped with modern facilities and services;
- healthy, safe and secure.
- Energy Efficiency Standard for Social Housing - The EESSH was introduced in 2014 to encourage social landlords to improve the energy efficiency of their stock (replacing the energy efficiency elements of the SHQS). It sets a minimum energy efficiency rating of SAP 2009 60-69 (this equates to EPC D or C) for landlords to achieve by 2020, depending on fuel and dwelling type.
- Scottish Housing News