Planned maintenance and Decent Homes works · Northern Ireland

Planned maintenance and Decent Homes works in Derry City and Strabane

Asset teams with homes in Derry City and Strabane can use us to validate, price and deliver planned works, and to return clean data at the end.

We take on planned maintenance works in Derry City and Strabane for the Housing Executive, housing associations and supported housing providers, managing every trade ourselves and working to the timescales in your order. Social homes in Derry City and Strabane are owned by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive and housing associations.

Derry City and Strabane at a glance

Council: Derry City and Strabane District Council
Nation: Northern Ireland
Council homes: Housing Executive and housing associations
Housing standard: Decent Homes Standard (NI)
Damp and mould timescales: No timescale law found
Population: 151,109 (2020 estimate)
Regional price factor: 0.90 (our estimate)

In Northern Ireland the Housing Executive, not the council, is the public landlord. Population: ONS 2020 mid-year estimate.

Who owns the social homes in Derry City and Strabane?

In Northern Ireland, councils are not housing authorities. Social homes in Derry City and Strabane are owned by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive and by registered housing associations, which are regulated by the Department for Communities.

What do we cover in Derry City and Strabane?

Validation surveys of homes in the programme
Single-component programmes where you prefer separate streams
Resident liaison and choice management
Programme reporting: starts, completions, variations and spend
Updated component data returned for your asset system

Planned maintenance and Decent Homes works in a social home

How do we deliver it?

We start by checking the programme data against what our surveyors find, because ordering components for the wrong homes is the most expensive mistake in planned works.

Which rules apply in Derry City and Strabane?

In Northern Ireland, the Housing Executive and registered housing associations work to the Northern Ireland Decent Homes Standard, which the Department for Communities consulted on revising in 2025–26.

Decent Homes Standard (NI) · More about planned maintenance works

What do planned maintenance works cost in Derry City and Strabane?

Our guide range for a kitchen in a replacement programme in Derry City and Strabane is £4,500–£9,000 per kitchen. That is the UK range of £5,000–£10,000 (derived from published totals) adjusted by a regional cost factor of 0.90 (our own estimate); figures are before VAT where the source states it. Every job is priced after survey; specification, access and the condition of the homes will move the figure.

Questions about planned maintenance works in Derry City and Strabane

Who is the social landlord in Derry City and Strabane?

Do you also work near Derry City and Strabane?

Yes. We take on planned maintenance works across Northern Ireland, including Mid Ulster, Fermanagh and Omagh, Causeway Coast and Glens and Antrim and Newtownabbey, and in every other UK nation.

Which housing standard applies in Derry City and Strabane?