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Low Cost Home Ownership Final Report
- Low Cost Home Ownership Final Report
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 1.06 MB
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Private Leasing and Landlord Accreditation
- Private Leasing and Landlord Accreditation - Feasibility Report
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  - Size: 739.02 KB
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Meeting the Scottish Housing Quality Standard
- Meeting the Scottish Housing Quality Standard
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  - Size: 1.4 MB
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Housing Support and Accommodation
- Housing Support and Accommodation
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Home needs repairs

Repairs documentation all tenures
- Alterations and improvements to your home leaflet
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 170.49 KB
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- Bathroom Replacement
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 702.67 KB
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- Care and repair adaptations
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 1.87 MB
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- Care and repair - small repairs
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  - Size: 2.2 MB
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- Condensation and mould leaflet
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 702.79 KB
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- Dampness and condensation
  - File type: DOC
  - Size: 1.54 MB
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- Door Entry Systems
  - File type: DOC
  - Size: 1.54 MB
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- Garden Aid leaflet
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 457.33 KB
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- Home safety - electrical
  - File type: DOC
  - Size: 1.58 MB
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- Home_Safety - Gas and Carbon Monoxide
  - File type: DOC
  - Size: 1.55 MB
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- Identifying and Replacing Lead Pipes
  - File type: DOC
  - Size: 1.55 MB
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- Looking After your Building - keeping your home in good repair
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 3.03 MB
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- Mutual Repairs and Shared Costs 2018
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  - Size: 1.71 MB
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- New rights for Private Sector tenants
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 1.97 MB
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- Organising repairs to your building
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  - Size: 588.74 KB
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- Plumbing Basics
  - File type: DOC
  - Size: 1.57 MB
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- Preparing for Central Heating installation
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 500.04 KB
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- Preparing for electrical rewiring
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 8.36 MB
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- Preparing for kitchen replacement
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 13.4 MB
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- Private landlord booklet
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 633.11 KB
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- Reading your Title Deeds
  - File type: DOC
  - Size: 1.54 MB
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- Right to Repair
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 219.83 KB
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- Scheme of Assistance
  - File type: DOC
  - Size: 1.66 MB
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- Scheme of Assistance Guide
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 367.03 KB
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- Scottish Housing Quality Standard
  - File type: HTM
  - Size: 14.12 KB
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- ELC Repairs duties
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 211.59 KB
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- Tenants repairs duties
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 207.85 KB
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- Your Right to Repair
  - File type: DOCX
  - Size: 15.18 KB
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- Special Assistance with repairs
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 62.75 KB
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- Electrical rewiring
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 562.83 KB
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- Landlord consent
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 168.49 KB
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- Repairs and maintenance leaflet
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 662.36 KB
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- Bathrom replacement
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 703.33 KB
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Housing Service Complaints

How to complain about our housing service
- The Scottish Public Services Ombudsman Information
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 442.1 KB
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- Complaining to the Scottish Housing Regulator
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 48.67 KB
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Empty homes

Reporting empty homes and bringing them back into use.
- Owners Registration Form 2018
  - File type: DOCX
  - Size: 31.64 KB
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- Buyers Registration Form 2018
  - File type: DOCX
  - Size: 54.92 KB
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- Matchmaker scheme explained
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 93.27 KB
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Housing Performance

Recent Housing Performance statistics
- Council Housing Stock March 2019
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 152.62 KB
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- Housing Performance 2019
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 188.52 KB
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- Landlord Performance Report 2018
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 5.02 MB
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Tenant participation
- Housing Day 2019
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 414.92 KB
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- Landlord Report to Tenants 2018-19
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 4.3 MB
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- Landlords Report 2017
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 4.5 MB
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- Estate Inspection Policy
  - File type: DOCX
  - Size: 269.57 KB
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- Grants for Tenants Groups
  - File type: DOC
  - Size: 1.28 MB
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- Landlord Performace Report Submission Form
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 617.75 KB
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- Policy on Registering Tenants Organisations
  - File type: DOC
  - Size: 693.5 KB
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- Tenant Participation Strategy 2016-2019
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 4 MB
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- Tenant Participation Strategy summary
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 2.12 MB
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- Rent Consultation questionnaire 2019
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 139.2 KB
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- Rent Consultation letter
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 102.85 KB
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- Rent Table 2019/20
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 102.85 KB
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- Household Form
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 253.97 KB
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- Changes to SST rights
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 37.07 KB
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- Changes to Short SST rights
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 26.75 KB
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- Register of Tenants organisations 2020 (May)
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 687.1 KB
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Homelessness
- Notes to help challenge a decision
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 104.25 KB
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- Request for a decision review
  - File type: DOC
  - Size: 26.5 KB
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Important Information about Paying your Council Rent

Information leaflet about paying your council rent and what to do if you are struggling to pay.
- Information about Paying your Council Rent
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 473.94 KB
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How East Lothian Council can Recover Unpaid Debt

We will always try to assist if you are having difficulty paying, however if you fail to respond to our requests to deal with the situation, there are other ways we can collect money you owe.
- How East Lothian Council can Recover Unpaid Debt
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 478.29 KB
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Affordable Housing
- Information about Affordable Housing in East Lothian
  - File type: DOCX
  - Size: 32.47 KB
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Landlord Registration

Landlord Registration information and advice
- Key Notes issue 1 November 2019
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 230.99 KB
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- Key Notes issue 2 March 2020
  - File type: PDF
  - Size: 382.46 KB
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