{"id":112128,"date":"2022-06-23T16:57:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T15:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=112128"},"modified":"2022-06-23T17:30:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T16:30:51","slug":"morgan-sindall-welywn-garden-city-housing-maintenance-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/building-control-news\/morgan-sindall-welywn-garden-city-housing-maintenance-contract\/112128\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Sindall secures housing maintenance contract with Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.welhat.gov.uk\/homepage\/67\/maintaining-your-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council(WHBC)<\/a> has signed a new \u00a311m housing maintenance contract with Morgan Sindall Property Services(MSPS), for the repair and maintenance, out of hours services, void and planned works of its 9,500 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/featured\/retrofitting-homes-barries-social-housing\/107645\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">council-owned properties<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>MSPS will take over the housing maintenance contract from Mears Limited in October this year, for an initial period of five years. The contract has the potential to be extended for up to a further five years.<\/p>\n<p>As part of their commitment to partnership working, MSPS will be co-located with WHBC staff at council offices in Campus East, Welwyn Garden City.<\/p>\n<h3>Improving the quality of repairs and developing social value in Welwyn Garden City<\/h3>\n<p>MSPS managing director, Alan Hayward and its Partnerships director, Paul Reader joined WHBC chief executive Ka Ng, leader of the council, councillor Tony Kingsbury, executive member for Housing, councillor Fiona Thomson and procurement manager, Andrew Harper to sign the new housing maintenance contract in the Council Chamber.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Tony Kingsbury said: \u201cWe are very much looking forward to working collaboratively with Morgan Sindall Property Services to provide a housing maintenance service that is focused on our residents and their needs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This new maintenance contract will use state-of-the-art technology to manage responsive and planned works with real time customer updates on repairs status, whilst providing more opportunities for customers to feedback on the quality of service they receive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alan Hayward, managing director, MSPS added: \u201cWe are looking forward to starting our partnership with Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council. We share their customer first approach and we\u2019re passionate about finding new ways to engage with customers, as well as using data and technology to provide an enhanced customer experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe partnership will enable us to make a positive impact in the community through developing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/social-value-in-procurement\/100816\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social value initiatives<\/a> that provide training and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/women-in-into-construction\/104362\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">employment opportunities<\/a> along with support for those that are vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council(WHBC) has signed a new \u00a311m housing maintenance contract with Morgan Sindall Property Services(MSPS), for the repair and maintenance, out of hours services, void and planned works of its 9,500 council-owned properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[306],"tags":[276,579,685,570],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-112128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-building-control-news","7":"tag-government","8":"tag-infrastructure","9":"tag-morgan-sindall","10":"tag-social-housing"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Morgan Sindall secures housing maintenance contract with Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council has signed an \u00a311m housing maintenance contract with Morgan Sindall, for maintenance of its 9,500 council-owned properties\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/building-control-news\/morgan-sindall-welywn-garden-city-housing-maintenance-contract\/112128\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Morgan Sindall secures housing maintenance contract with Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council has signed an \u00a311m housing maintenance contract with Morgan Sindall, for maintenance of its 9,500 council-owned properties\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/building-control-news\/morgan-sindall-welywn-garden-city-housing-maintenance-contract\/112128\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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