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Lewisham Homes' responsibilities
Lewisham Homes is responsible for managing Council housing services for your home on behalf of Lewisham Council. The Council is still your landlord. This page helps to clarify what Lewisham Homes is responsible for doing and what the Council still does.
What Lewisham Homes does:
- Right To Buy applications
- Administration of the Right to Buy Scheme
- Dealing with antisocial behaviour
- Collecting rent and service charges
- Tenancy issues
- Cleaning and maintaining estates
- Leaseholder issues
- Letting and management of garages
- Major works
- Resident involvement and consultation
- Gas servicing and repairs to tenants’ homes and
communal areas - Dealing with empty properties and unauthorised occupation
- Complaints about Lewisham Homes
What Lewisham Council does:
- Monitoring Lewisham Homes
- Abandoned vehicles
- Homelessness
- Housing benefit
- New housing developments
- Allocation of properties
- Setting the rent
- Sheltered housing support
- Street cleaning
- Roads and lighting
- Bulky household waste removal
- Green space maintenance
- Pest Control
- Graffiti
