D3: Maintenance and reliability

The Scottish Local Authorities Special Housing Group is, primarily, an association of district councils, new towns and other agencies who provide the bulk of the public sector housing in Scotland. The aim of the Group is to encourage better housing through common development of all matters related to the provision, the management and the maintenance or" the housing stock.

In total, the member authorities own almost 60% of the entire Scottisn public sector stock. The number of houses is in excess of 613,000; a national investment whose replacement value is in the order of thousands of millions of pounds. Some one and a half million individual users rely on this stock not only for shelter, heat, light, water and space for living but also for the amenities and the environment which allows a house to be translated into a home. Maintenance and reliability are the primary concerns of both housing authority and tenant.