Capital Programme

Southend-on-Sea City Council allocates a significant amount of money every year for South Essex Homes to spend on the Capital Programme.  This involves us planning in advance the larger scale works we need to do to improve the homes we manage for the Council.   

Our Capital Programme is an ongoing programme of improvements works to ensure your home continues to meet the Decent Homes Standard.  Examples of the improvements we carry out include fitting new kitchens and bathrooms, replacing windows and doors, installing new heating systems and re-roofing work. 

This Capital Programme is developed by South Essex Homes staff and approved by our Board and the Council.  This work is often decided based on priorities from: 

  • Stock condition surveys we have carried out to identify the condition and lifespan of elements on each property, culminating in a 30-year plan and spend profile. 

  • Information from other departments within the council in providing their needs to specific properties. 

  • Repairs data on each property from the housing system. 

  • Local knowledge from the staff within the areas. 

  • Councillors’ information from their respective communities. 

  • Customer information fed into the council and South Essex Homes by various means. 

The delivery of the projects is split into groups, such as kitchens and bathrooms, external works, energy efficiency, communal flats, and fire compliance.  With some of these projects, we are able to offer you options on what you would like - including a choice of kitchen colours, flooring colours and paint colours and door type and colours, for example. 

Projects carried out as part of this Capital Programme are managed by our Property Services team from inception to completion; with satisfaction surveys carried out on completion of each project, which in turn informs us of what went well and where necessary how we can improve.