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 location of assets, ownership and development projects. All of WDH’s business data is displayed on detailed digital Ordnance Survey maps.
Jessica Rieck, GIS analyst, Wakefield & District Housing, said, “Cadcorp SIS WebMap is our first point of reference because geospatial data is key in supporting our asset management requirements and enhances our analysis and reporting.”
WDH is also using SIS WebMap for its maintenance and repairs activities. The housing provider integrates data on its repairs, disrepair claims, EPC ratings and types of insulation with spatial data in easy-to-navigate maps to give its repairs teams a better understanding of WDH’s estates, with SIS WebMap linking direct to WDH’s asset management system.
Rieck said, “Over the past year, WDH made 102,000 general repairs, completed 5,600 emergency repairs, achieved 95 per cent ‘first-time fixes’ and took an average of 8.6 days to complete each repair.”
