- Digital switchover
- Save energy
- Tenant Management Organisations
- Make a compliment or complaint
- Anti-social behaviour
- Better Homes
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My community
- Become a block representative
- Co-regulation and scrutiny and the Tenant Services Authority (TSA)
- Compacts
- Getting involved
- Give us your views
- Go it alone scheme
- Halls and activities
- How are TMOs set up?
- Improving communities
- Local management agreements
- Resident Panels
- Residents associations
- Running a TMO
- Setting up a Residents' Association
- Support offered to TMOs
- Tenant empowerment programme
- Tenant management organisations
- I am a leaseholder
- I am a tenant
How are TMOs set up?
Usually residents of a block or estate come together and look at the options for taking over services themselves through a Government funded tenant empowerment programme. (link to CWH TEP page)
Before a TMO can consider taking over management they must have at least 25 properties occupied by secure council tenants within the area they would like to manage.
A TMO cannot start to run the services until the resident group (collectively and individually) has been judged to be competent by an independent agency. There is also a secret ballot where the majority of residents and secure tenants need to agree to the TMO.
The relationship between the council and the TMO, the services the TMO will manage and those retained by the council is set out in a modular management agreement (MMA). The MMA must be approved by the secretary of state.
If a TMO is set up you still remain as tenant or a leaseholder of the council and your existing rights are protected. The only thing that will change is that the TMO will manage the tenancy and lease on behalf of the council.
Find out more about what’s involved in the running of a TMO and the pros and cons.
Download an information sheet (link) on Tenant Management Organisations
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