21 April 2022
Your request
When is the last time the council did a stock survey of its entire housing stock? (An inspection of every home to understand the state of the property).
Our response
The Lambeth housing stock was surveyed prior to the Lambeth housing standard (LHS) launch in 2012, the stock condition survey did not cover every single property but instead used cloned data from previous stock condition surveys.
The council have recently procured the services of a Strategic Asset Partner (Savills), their role is to undertake a boroughwide stock condition survey of the councils housing stock. The surveys will be used to develop our capital works program and investment needs over the coming years and will address the need to reduce cardon emissions and increase the energy performance of our housing stock on rolling program, the surveys will also look at fire safety and preventative measures.
The surveys are planned over a number of years with the programme being developed commencing with our 2023/24 capital works programme. The current capital works programme 2022/23 is already in development with some work already on site as this was the delayed capital works programme from previous years due to the Covid pandemic.