PRESS NOTICE
Council leader
meets
anti-Riverside
campaigners
The
meeting followed other recent similar meetings when Coun. Glover met with
fellow
councillors in moves to resolve complaints
about Riverside made
by
tenants and leaseholders. Coun Glover has also held similar meetings with
two
other campaigning groups.
At the two hour meeting
with the Federation, there were several complaints
made about the long-standing Riverside
heating failures at
Longtown and CrosbyonEden and several
complaints relating to alleged failures of
Riverside`s Complaints Procedure.
It
was also alleged that Riverside had not carried out promises made at the
handover
of the city council houses 13 years ago and that the present
arrangement
of city councillors sitting on the Riverside governing board
needed
to be examined because the purpose of the arrangement was unclear
and
it created divided loyalties among councillors.
It
was also alleged that the Federation`s representations about Riverside to
the
city council in recent years via the council`s Overview and Scrutiny Panel were
inadequate
and that the Riverside closure of several sheltered housing units in
Carlisle
and district was carried out without
proper consultation and was nothing
more
than profitable property development.
A
Federation spokesman said today:” We welcome Councillor Glover`s
interest
in the work of the Federation and thank
him for listening to our
complaints.
We have been campaigning about these complaints
for many
years.
We now hope that the admirable work of Coun. Glover and fellow
councillors
in the past few weeks in trying to resolve these complaints will
have
some success”
The
two other groups which held similar meetings with Coun. Glover`s are
Longtown
Action for Heat which is chaired by Mr
Jimmy Robb and Cumbria
Riverside
Action Group which is chaired by Canon Michael Manley of Carlisle
Cathedral,
the Carlisle Rural Dean.The groups were
formed recently to campaign
against
Riverside following complaints. Riverside is Carlisle`s biggest landlord
owning
6,500 homes.
Issued
by Carlisle Tenants` and Residents` Federation
For further information
please ring 01228 522277 or 01228 532803
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