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South Lakes Housing (SLH) has completed its promises to tenants as a result of a £54 million pound investment into the housing stock following the transfer of homes from South Lakeland District Council five years ago. The company will celebrate its 5th year anniversary on the 5th March. The independently run local housing association was […]

South Lakes Housing is approaching its 5th anniversary as an independent Housing Association and has ambitious plans for its future. We are looking to appoint forward thinking Directors to our Board to help drive our ambitions. We are particularly looking for directors with high level commercial/management experience and those with experience/expertise in finance and treasury, […]

Students at Queen Katherine School, hosted a festive Tea Party for South Lakes Housings sheltered housing tenants and students from Sandgate School. The staff and students at Queen Katherine School had been busy preparing for the event for several months by making decorations, crackers and learning how to host an afternoon tea. Tea was served […]

The Storm Desmond event of the 5th December 2015 led to 60 SLH homes being flooded from a range of sources including; surface water run-off from the fells, river flooding and ground water flooding. 39 households required alternative temporary accommodation with Kendal being the worst affected area. Two sheltered schemes were also badly affected including a […]

SLH organised a gin tasting evening to raise money for Growing Well, a local charity who work with people who are in recovery from mental health. The event took advantage of the growing popularity of gin and managed to raise money through selling tickets to the event and also holding a raffle on the night […]

South Lakes Housing (SLH) has been granted two injunctions for anti-social behavior within the last few weeks. SLH obtained an injunction against Mark Beckford of Jenkin Rise, Kendal on the 21st of October 2016. SLH first received complaints about noise nuisance in November 2015 which SLH tried to solve by installing insulation between the flats. SLH […]

SLH is about to begin works to redevelop an estate in the heart of Kendal town centre. The Waterside redevelopment will see; six ‘2 bedroom’ houses, four ‘2 bedroom’ flats and four ‘3 bedroom’ houses being built on the site of the existing garage blocks on Dowkers Lane. The plans have been drawn up following extensive consultation […]

Two sheltered housing schemes owned by South Lakes Housing (SLH) have been refurbished following the damage caused by storm Desmond on 5th December 2015. At Birthwaite in Windermere, eight ground floor flats were flooded and at Edgecombe Court in Kendal four were flooded. In total, the floods severely damaged 60 of SLHs properties with the […]

Birthwaite Sheltered Housing Scheme has been recognised at a Northern Housing Consortium awards ceremony for ‘Building Healthier Communities’. The prize was collected by Alison Kinnon (Assistant Director of Customers & Communities) and Tina Armitage (Senior Scheme Manager) at the Northern Silver Screen awards in Blackpool on 9th June 2016. Housing an ageing population is a massive […]

South Lakes Housing (SLH) is planning changes to its sheltered service to older residents in order to make it more sustainable and affordable in the future. It has recently consulted residents living in its 12 sheltered schemes about delivering  the service in a different way, possibly introducing a new Independent Living Service to be made […]

South Lakes Housings (SLH) heating partnership with Rogerson Homeserve has been awarded a Gold Award at the Morgan Lambert Gas Safety Awards 2016.  The team collected the accolade at the Annual Gas Safety Conference on 2nd June 2016. Rogerson Homeserve has worked in partnership with SLH since 2012 and the contract includes gas servicing and […]

The Chair of the National Housing Federation Diana Warwick is coming to the South Lakes on 28th April to see for herself the local housing challenges and the good work being undertaken by housing associations. Her trip will include visiting a number of development sites, checking the progress of flood recovery work at one of South […]

Elderly residents are due to start moving back in to flats at their sheltered housing scheme in Windermere after being flooded out during Storm Desmond in December. Eight ground floor flats, along with the communal lounge and kitchen areas, were flooded at the South Lakes Housing (SLH) owned Birthwaite sheltered accommodation during the height of […]

We have purchased 16 new homes from developers Story Homes and Russell Armer over the past few weeks at Allithwaite Road in Grange over Sands and Natland Road in Kendal bringing the total number of new homes developed to 26 so far this financial year. Following the completion of the Jubilee Close scheme in Kirkby […]