New Modern work in the neighbourhood for everyone

Featured Image: The Elements Of Organic Gardening Highgrove, Clarence House Birkhall by King Charles and team Like most modern Britons I understand the continuing influence and importance of a dynamic monarch engaged in UK neighbourhoods valuing and connecting young, middle aged and old with their organic abilities to contribute and transform the economic, social, cultural […]

Replacing a boiler? Here’s some useful info from MTVH’s Heating and Property Dept

Featured image: Engineer/Customer Matrix on boiler repair and replacement scheduling via Ian Burrows Heating Manager Property MTVH who attends the MTVH regular Customer Voice meetings organised by Gareth Sears Resident Voice Coordinator and Customer Engagement Lead Nisha Aslam Above: MTVH Heating and Responsive Repairs Manager Ian Burrows A Which? survey in 2021 said that half […]

Boiler info: combi, heat only and system boilers

Info: from Which feature writer Sam Morris 2021 Which is a really useful magazine: I wanted to write about boilersTypes of boiler Combi, heat-only and system boilers. A combination (combi) boiler is the most common type of boiler the UK. Heat-only and system boilers suit a variety of situations A condensing boiler could save you […]

To Prevent mould in housing we need a neighbourhood approach

Featured Image: Unhealthy Neighbourhood Syndrome by Husam AlWaer, Joshua Speedie, Ian Cooper You’ll be as relieved as I am to hear that much work to address mould and damp is being done across the UK through university knowledge transfer projects locally, Nottingham City and County projects to alleviate damp and mould and Metropolitan Thames Valley […]

Song of Ourselves: We’re the Body Electric 1 How MTVH’s Customer Voice Framework and Customer Council’s aims are to repair and revalue homes and people, work, education and skills throughout the lifespan.

Featured Image: Proposal For A Mural by Nottingham university course award winning student Jack Chuang from Taiwan (and Shanghai!) 1.Best Final Year Individual Project on the BEng Product Design and Manufacture course 2019. 2. Head of Department Award, for being in the the top 10% of students in Mechanical, Material and Manufacturing Engineering in 2019. MTVH (Metropolitan Thames Valley) Housing has a long community history of […]

To all the great people who care about everyone

Featured Image: Nottingham’s Garden Court North Chambers Barrister Christian Weaver who represented the family of 2 year old Awaab Ishak. Awaab died because the Housing Association he lived in failed to act to remedy mould and damp in their home. How a two year old in 21st century Britain could die from ingesting mould spores […]

How the fairer renting Bill is the beginning of a new economy

People who rent need secure jobs, decent, warm, insulated homes with green spaces nearby. In the UK it’s estimated that half of the UK population in 2022 (including teenagers and children) live in privately rented or social housing accommodation. Although home ownership is high in the UK it’s distorting the reality of who buys and […]

Stuart, Dom and Scott MTVH’s Pinnacle garden Contractors

Featured Image: Metropolitan Thames Valley (MTVH)’s Pinnacle contractors Stuart and Dom (and Scott not in view) part of the groundworks team working under Metropolitan’s Richard Warriner and Pinnacle’s Mark Varley. I talked to Stuart to get an idea of what he enjoys about his work. Stuart’s interest in growing things started with his grandad who […]

After Parliament week: how we rejuvenate things

Featured Image: Conservative MP for Broxtowe Darren Henry with pupils from Fairfield Spencer Academy after organising a virtual parliamentary question time during Parliament Week 14th -21st November 2022. Democracy is the energy of any economic system we choose to implement and we need its health as much as it needs ours. In many places affluent and […]

The World of tomorrow is in our stories: let’s write The people

Rushcliffe is fantastic at change: growing, learning, evolving. What people we have here. Because Rushcliffe has grown (especially over the last thirty years (see presentation below) and when it has grown it’s taken the people with its growth which gives a boost to awareness of democracy: local parish, ward, county, regional structures. This is a great resource: over the next few […]