Repairs & Improvements

Decent Homes

What is the Decent Homes Standard?

This is a government target to ensure that all social housing meets set standards of decency by 2010.

In order to achieve this standard and deliver all the other improvements that are needed, Islington Council set up ‘Homes for Islington’ in April 2004 and applied to the government for £157m of extra money up to 2010 to deliver an improvement programme of over £500m to 2010.

What is a decent Home

Your home needs to meet all four of the decent homes criteria:

• Your home meets the current statutory minimum standard for housing
• Your home is in a reasonable state of repair
• Your home has reasonably modern facilities and services
• Your home provides a reasonable degree of thermal comfort

If you think that your home doesn't meet one of the criteria and that works are required to bring your home up to the Decent Homes standard then please see our work programme to check what works are planned. Information can be found on the Getting it right…ONLINE pages on this site.