Housing Performance:

Performance monitoring is fundamental to identifying how well the Housing Service is doing and where improvements can be made. Our dedicated Management Information Officer produces and monitors performance information for the Housing Service.

Performance Measure 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 2024/25

Rent collected by the local authority as a proportion of rents owed

97.32% 97.59% 97.26% 97.24% 97.7%

Percentage of current arrears of the rent debit

2.50% 2.02% 2.44% 2.31% 2.09%

Average time taken to re-let local authority housing (days)

30.88 29.61 34.73 36.11 42.09

Percentage of rent lost through properties being empty

0.64% 0.78% 0.71% 0.66% 0.82%

Percentage of emergency repairs completed on time

99.62% 100% 100% 91.17% 95.98%

Affordable housing completions

95 243 246 106 215

Long term empty properties brought into use

82 48 69 35 90

You can view the tenant satisfaction measures page for more information on how the Council is performing as a social housing landlord under the tenant satisfaction measures.