Tristar Homes
Tristar Homes Limited, Stockton Borough Council's arms length management organisation, was set up in April 2002 to take over the day to day management and maintenance of the Council's housing stock.
At the present time Stockton Council still owns the housing stock and remains the landlord, Tristar Homes simply act as its management agent for certain specified services - tenants' existing rights and responsibilities are unchanged.
In November 2008, Council's Cabinet (the Council's decision making body) considered a report outlining the findings of an option appraisal on the future of Council Housing in the Borough. The Cabinet agreed with the report that the only way forward to get the much-needed money to invest in properties and services was to stock transfer - the transfer of ownership and management of all Council owned properties to a social housing organisation (often known as a housing association).
This decision was recently supported by tenants in a ballot organised and managed by the Electoral Reform Service on behalf of the Council and Tristar Homes. 89.6% of those tenants who voted, voted in favour of transfer.
As a result of tenants voting in favour of transfer, homes will now be transferred to a "new-style" Tristar Homes which will then own homes, as well as manage them. Tristar Homes will now become a not-for-profit registered provider of social housing and the new landlord of all Council Housing in the Borough.
Work is currently underway to make transfer a reality, and it is planned
for transfer to take place at the beginning of 2011.
Tristar Homes Limited has developed its own website which you can access
via www.tristarhomes.co.uk.
