Housing - rent setting

We are responsible for setting the level of rent that we charge our tenants.

Recently, central government introduced a new approach to setting rents so that housing associations and councils would have similar levels of rent for similar properties.

This is to eliminate discrepancies that have occurred across the country.

The actual level of the rents is determined by how much we need to spend on services to our tenants.

Rent is paid into what is termed The Housing Revenue Account which, along with government subsidy, is what pays for the services that tenants receive.

The rent that council tenants pay does not contribute to other services we provide, nor is it subsidised by the Council Tax payments.

Each year we consider carefully how much money we will need to raise the following year from rents and subsidies in order to carry out our programmes of repair and maintenance.