Wakefield & District Housing is spending around £150 million on improving its housing portfolio, using Cadcorp’s mapping software to inform its spending plans. WDH’s investment decisions are based on a whole dwelling, whole street and whole estate approach. Using Cadcorp SIS WebMap, WDH has created numerous interactive maps, informing teams across its organisation about the…
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WDH’s ‘pay rent as you shop’ scheme with Housing Perks
WDH has teamed up with Housing Perks to enable its tenants to contribute to their rent accounts by using discounts on their day-to-day shopping. With the Housing Perks app, WDH’s tenants can buy vouchers for all major supermarkets as well as many other all high-street shops and receive discounts on the vouchers, with the discounts…
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WDH awards geospatial contract to Landmark Information
Wakefield District Housing has partnered with Landmark Information for the provision of intelligent location data and advanced mapping services. By working with Landmark Information, WDH now has access to a wealth of Ordnance Survey MasterMap, Address Point, raster and Land Registry ownership data. The geospatial data underpins the housing provider’s web-based mapping service that is…
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Capita’s impact on WDH’s independent living schemes
Following the introduction of Capita’s Advantage Impact web-based system, WDH’s services for vulnerable tenants at its 42 independent living schemes across Wakefield have now been fully digitalised, with all customer and scheme information stored electronically. Until the end of 2015, the schemes were all managed via paper and basic spreadsheets. WDH and Capita reported that…
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Wakefield & District Housing on the move with Capita
Capita has helped Wakefield & District Housing improve productivity by a third following the introduction of its mobile working software. With responsibility for maintaining the homes of more than 20 per cent of the local population, WDH deals with a wide variety of tenant enquiries every day, ranging from the urgent to the routine. As…
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Free wi-fi deal for WDH tenants
Wakefield and District Housing has partnered with CommunityUK.net to introduce a free wi-fi network across the Wakefield area. The housing provider wants to get all of its 60,000 tenants online by 2020, with the wi-fi network planned to reach all of its 31,000 homes. WDH and CommunityUK.net have just begun a technical trial of a…
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