October 2008 |
NEW SANQUAHAR STREET APARTMENTS SET FOR EARLY 2009
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Our new Sanquahar Street apartments are now well established on the Splott skyline and will be providing new homes for rent early in 2009. Work on this £4 million scheme started last autumn and is now rapidly taking shape. We anticipated the scheme being completed early in 2009. The development continues our thirty-year history of providing new homes in the Splott area. |
We already own several hundred properties in Splott;So it’s great to be providing new homes again in one of the Association’s traditional communities – our last major scheme in Splott was Moorland Road apartments, which were completed in 2004.
The five-storey development is on the site of the former ‘Railway Club’ and is being developed with the support of Cardiff County Council and the Welsh Assembly Government.
The scheme is made up of:
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31 one bedroom apartments
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9 two bedroom apartments
All the apartments will have high-quality fitted kitchens and bathrooms and meet all the Assembly’s required space and amenity standards.
Monkstone Close – Ready Soon!
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More new-homes good news is the completion of Monksotne Close, off Maxwell Road, Rumney, Cardiff. Thanks to our partnership with Cardiff Council we’ve been able to provide four much needed 3 bedroom family homes for rent, built to excellent high modern standards. We expect the scheme to be completed within the next few weeks. The properties have already been let and the new tenants can look forward to finishing 2008 in great new homes. |
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CCHA SHORT LISTED IN HOUSING ‘OSCARS’
We’re delighted to announce that CCHA had been short listed for the third time (and the second consecutive year) in the prestigious Chartered Institute of Housing UK Housing Awards – the ‘Oscars’ of the housing world.
CCHA finished 2007 on winning form by winning the CIH Cymru ‘Diversity in Housing Award’ at the CIH’s Gala Award Ceremony on 23rd November 2007. The Award is given to recognise the innovative work and good practice being undertaken to promote diversity and tackle discrimination across any or all of the equality agendas.
Our nomination, in the ‘Outstanding Achievement in Wales’ category, together with our partners Hafod, Linc-Cymru and Wales and West housing association is for our diversity project: Empowering Minority Ethnic Communities in Employment Skills. The project group identified a common issue: few job applications were being received from BME candidates, and those who applied were not getting to interview stage. In response, the group developed a programme of interactive 2 day workshops that take attendees through the application and interview stages and promotes careers in Housing.
They learn how to identify personal skills and translate these to a mock application on day 1, with day 2 taking them through the interview process. The delegates participate in discussions, view presentations, receive handouts on key topics, share experiences, go through mock interviews with feedback and are presented with a certificate on completion. A video was created by the group that not only demonstrates a good interview and poor interview but demonstrates the dubious acting skills of the group!!
To date 10 participants have got to interview stage, 4 participants have secured full-time employment (3 in housing), 1 has secured a PATH traineeship and 20 have gone through work placement programmes. They have put their success down to the skills and new found confidence that the workshops gave them.
Last year CCHA won this award and we’re delighted to be back in the final again this year. The winners will be announced in November and the award ceremony in London.
