Roofspace+ Damp: InsulatE(+ventilate) Steve Newcombe MTVH

Featured Image: MTVH’s Steve Newcombe’s review of the roof space in my maisonette July 2024 I live in social housing and interestingly, the place I live overlooks a really interesting story of community, neighbourhood, participation and economic growth linked to that activity: I’m using that sense of place past and present to listen to and […]

Neighbourly Skills: Streetwise: Martin, Steve, Dimitri+Dave

Featured Image: Streetwise’s Dimtri reducing epicormic growth on Highfield Road West Bridgford Thursday 15th August 2024 In 2023/24 Streetwise Rushcliffe Borough Council, established thirty-five years ago (as their Facebook page notes) was re-integrated back into Rushcliffe Borough Council, along with its income from external customers such as ViaEM In West Bridgford we see Streetwise Rushcliffe […]

Housing needs to talk to local people: skill them to retrofit/build them

Above: MTVH CEO Geeta Nanda who is leaving the organisation after sixteen years to be replaced in September by the previous CEO of Nottingham City Council, Mel Barrett If you want to change the world, use the internet as a resource for real world change. A couple of weeks ago two thousand people logged in […]

Your trees + Gardens Matter to Us: 2024: summers Garden Services

It was the day after the result of general election in West Bridgford, Rugby Road, (near the Arena leisure centre where we had the count). Had anything changed? Too early to say…but as I walked past the tree work being done on Rugby/Collington Way in West Bridgford I realised that we need to visualise the […]

Down to Earth People:Playing their Part (1)

Featured Image: In the recent upgrade and play surface refurbishment at Greythorn Park you can see how play equipment manufacturer Proludic, their groundwork and surface contractors ALS Contracting and Playsmart bring a professional good humour to meticulous work. Above: John-Aris Hirst Playground Inspector with images that might give you an idea of the skill, energy, […]

Hot on ventilation: MTVH’s Eco Fans…

Featured Image: Vent -Axia’s Lo-Carbon Response 7: a filterless fan, mainly used in bathrooms: giving powerful, quiet ventilation, improving indoor air quality. Dan Timlick is an electrician working for MTVH. With twenty four years experience gained at Nottingham City Homes, self employed for seven, Dan’s worked for MTVH now for the last two and is really enjoying it. He fitted […]

Ventilation: As important as glazing, Heating, Insulation: All together Now….

Featured Image: Mechanical Ventilation for Householders in Housing Association Homes Since the New Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2019 superceding the Landlord and Tenant Act of 1985 came into effect in England and Wales. The whole country has been considering the way we plan, build, refurbish, insulate, heat, glaze and insulate homes. You Gov has […]

Energy efficiency in social housing: Ventilation

Featured Image: Natural Ventilation The Department of Energy In England and Wales, social housing has an energy efficiency rating of 67.9 – an Energy Performance Certificate rating of D. This was 9% more energy efficient than privately rented properties and 12% more energy efficient than owner-occupied homes. Social rented housing is the most energy efficiency […]

Inequality snapshot: thoughts of a volunteer (1)

Featured Image: Illustrator R Fresson’s satyrical snapshot of the real cost of McDonalds: below is an article written by an experienced Nottinghamshire Foodbank volunteer After volunteering in Nottinghamshire foodbanks and wanting to find out more I was shocked to discover that there are more food banks than McDonalds branches in the UK! Trussell Trust run […]

collective Solution:Let’s Connect!

Featured Image: Unhealthy Neighbourhood Syndrome: A Useful Label For Analysing and Providing Advice on Urban Decision Making? ‘Landlords need to take ventilation more seriously if we are to combat damp and mould, writes Alan Siggins, managing director of Airflow’ He might well be right: he manufactures air ventilation products, Alan knows the need, the skill shortages, […]