Published on:
26
September 2008
Work to install new kitchens and bathrooms in over 100 homes in Menstrie will begin this week.
This £750,000 project, which begins on 29th September 2008, marks the beginning of a larger improvement programme coming to Menstrie.
Councillor Sam Ovens, Regeneration Portfolio Holder said: "I am delighted to see this work starting. We worked closely with tenants and tenants groups to establish what their priorities were for Council investment in their homes. Bathrooms and kitchens featured heavily.
"We have decided to combine the kitchen and the bathroom contract in the hope that it will reduce costs so that we are able to provide the tenants with more for their money. It is also hoped that this will lessen the disruption that tenants experience during these refurbishments."
The kitchens will be rewired, new sinks, kitchen units and worktops will be fitted. The walls will be papereda and painted and new vinyl flooring will be laid. The bathrooms will have new showers, baths (were possible), wash hand basins and WCs fitted. The walls will be smoothed and painted and new slip resistance vinyl will be fitted.
Tenants will be able to choose from a variety of kitchen worktops, doors, tiles, flooring, wallpaper and paint as well as bathroom tiles, wallpaper, paint and flooring.
A total of 108 properties throughout Menstrie in Clackmannanshire will receive new kitchens and bathrooms with the contract due to last 26 weeks.
The tenants were invited to an information meeting in August to ensure that they are aware of the level of work carried out by the contractor, and also what is expected from the tenants themselves to allow an uninterrupted programme of works.
This modernisation will bring these rooms beyond the Scottish Housing Quality Standard to the Clackmannanshire Standard and complete the kitchen and bathroom replacement programme in Menstrie. All Council and housing association houses must meet the Scottish Housing Quality Standard by 2015. For a house to meet the Standard it must be energy efficient, have modern facilities and services, be healthy, safe and secure and be free from serious disrepair. In Clackmannanshire we wish to enhance the investment in our stock beyond the SHQS - to reach the Clackmannanshire Standard.
Clackmannanshire Council tenants in the following streets in Menstrie are about to receive new bathrooms and new kitchens:
Windsor Street
Midtown
Main Street East
Main Street West
Johnstone Street
Craigomus Crescent
Abercrombie Place
Forthvale
Elmbank
Menstrie Place
Castle Road
Castle Court
Long Row
Dumyat Road
The contract carried out by Perth based company Sidey.