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Have Your Say on our Housing Asset Management Strategy

We’re inviting tenants and local residents to comment on our draft Housing Asset Management Strategy. 

This document sets out how we manage the condition, safety and investment of the Council’s social housing stock. The strategy explains that we will spend first on safety and quality in our properties before making other investment decisions. In addition the Strategy proposes moving away from a one-size-fits-all approach to making our homes more energy efficient, working to stabilise the number of houses the council owns at the end of the five-year period, working together with local teams and stakeholders to make a more place-based approach to managing our estates, and exploring opportunities to extend, remodel, and repurpose our housing schemes to better support the needs of our tenants and city.

We want to make the best use of your money, and ensure that our priorities align with what you want us to invest in.

The survey is open to all Sheffield residents, whether you are a Council tenant, a private tenant, rent, or own your home, but we would particularly like to hear from current and potential tenants. 

The survey should take around 15-20 minutes and will close on 7th of December 2026.  


What happens to my feedback?

The feedback collected in this survey will be analysed by Sheffield City Council’s Asset Management and Programme Works Asset Policy Officer. 

We do not ask for any personally identifiable information such as your name or contact details, so your feedback will be anonymous. As part of our first stage of analysis, we will also ensure that no identifying information is included in the data. 

We will ask for information about specific characteristics, such as ethnicity or disability. This helps us compare what different groups of people, with different views and experiences, think or want.

We analyse all the feedback carefully, in line with the 2018 Data Protection Act and 2018 GDPR legislation which sets out how information can be used and kept safe. 

Once the consultation is completed and the feedback has been analysed, all personal data collected will be deleted. More information about how we collect personal data and store it can be found here: https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/utilities/footer-links/privacy-notice


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Please check the box which best describes your housing situation. *

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Overall Strategy and Vision

Based on tenant feedback, we have developed the Strategy’s vision, ambitions and priorities. We want to know how much you agree with different elements of the Strategy’s vision. 

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Please rate your agreement with each part of the strategy’s vision on the scale below: 

To provide safe, good quality homes in neighbourhoods that people are proud to call home
To take decisions that safeguard the long-term sustainability of our housing stock
To support the delivery of the Housing Strategy (which aims to make more social and affordable housing in Sheffield)

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Please only give feedback here on the Strategy's vision. There will be a question at the end for any other comments.
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The next questions relate to the changes to some of the strategy's priorities we are considering. It's important we hear your views about this. (Don't worry if some of the statements contradict each other - they are designed to find out what people think on a range of issues and the responses will help us see what is most important to people). There is no right or wrong answer.


Please rate how much you agree with the following statement with 1. being ‘strongly disagree’ and 5. Being ‘strongly agree’. 

The Council should buy or build more houses than it sells.
The Council should aim to meet EPC-C by 2030. (An Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) is an official document which rates your property’s energy efficiency on a scale from A (most efficient) to G (least efficient). A new Government Standard says private landlords must make their properties meet EPC-C by 2030 but has not yet asked social landlords to match it.)
The Council should prioritise quick and effective investments that lower utility bills for all tenants, (e.g. insulation).
The Council should prioritise investments that lower utility bills for tenants with higher-than-average bills and go towards reducing our carbon emissions (e.g. rolling out solar panel programmes).
The Council should focus on improving the look and condition of neighbourhoods so more people feel proud to live there over lowering costs for tenants.
Green spaces on estates should have more nature and wild elements instead of just grass.
When the Council makes investment decisions, it should prioritise lowering costs for tenants over other factors, like the look or appearance.

Investment Priorities

This next section asks for your opinion on investment decisions. This is to help us develop the strategy and ensure we are prioritising the right things. There is no right or wrong answer. There are a lot of good things we could invest in, but we cannot always invest in everything at once. We want to make sure our investment plans align with what you want us to spend money on first. 

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Thinking about energy investments, which three areas of investment would most improve energy efficiency in your home? 

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We are interested in your priorities for neighbourhood improvements. Which three neighbourhood improvements should receive the highest priority for investment where you live? Please choose up to three.

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Thinking about children and young people in your household or neighbourhood, which three housing and neighbourhood improvements would make them feel like they belong and live somewhere they are happy to call home?

Acquisitions and Disposals

As part of the five-year plan for the Housing Asset Management Strategy, we are devising an Acquisitions and Disposals Policy. This policy will set out our policy and the decision-making process for acquiring/ buying houses and disposing/ selling or moving to a different part of the Council. When we consider options for buying or selling, we consider many factors such as community impact, local housing need, accessibility, property condition, long-term value, short-term costs, and rental history (to name a few).

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We want your views on what kind of new homes we should prioritise buying.

The items on this list serve to help us understand your views and are not an indication of Council plans, which is why some may contradict each other.

Please rate how much you agree with each statement with 1. being ‘strongly disagree’ and 5. Being ‘strongly agree’. 

The Council should focus on acquiring houses with more bedrooms (as in 4+ bedroom properties).
The Council should focus on buying more properties suitable for an aging population or those with disabilities (for example, level access and wide doors for wheel-chair users).
The Council should focus on building more new properties instead of buying houses on the open market.
The Council should prioritise value for money over anything else when buying properties.
The Council should not be buying new homes, and instead only spend money on improvements to current properties.
Where Council tenants bought properties with Right to Buy and then put them up for sale, the Council should aim to buy these back.
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We want your thoughts on Disposals. When we say ‘Disposals’ we are referring to either selling the properties, buildings, or parcels of land or looking for other uses for it within the Council or local community.

The items on this list serve to help us understand your views and are not an indication of Council plans, which is why some may contradict each other.

Please rate how much you agree with each statement with 1. being ‘strongly disagree’ and 5. Being ‘strongly agree’.

The Council should consider the possibility disposing of any land or property that is not being used, and this money should be reinvested.
The Council should aim to keep all land and property it owns, regardless of whether it is being used.
Where the Council has persistent trouble renting a property to tenants, they should look at other uses for it or possible disposal.
The Council should consider the possibility of disposal for any properties that cost significantly higher than average to maintain.

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We will ask you in the next question to give any other feedback or comments.

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