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Managing your garden

Your Tenancy Agreement states that tenants are responsible for making sure their gardens, yards and hedges are maintained, tidy and free of rubbish at all times.

Your garden includes grass, plants, bushes, hedges and trees.

If you do not maintain your garden, you will have a breached of your tenancy agreement and Nottingham City Homes will take action against you or any tenant who fails to maintain their gardens to an acceptable standard.

This part of the website explains your responsibilities and also gives you information and advice on where to find help to keep your garden tidy.

Garden Competition

If you like gardening and are proud of all the hard work you have put in, why not enter our Garden Competition? You could win a cash prize and a trophy!

Application forms will be out in June 2010 and will be in all our housing offices and the Housing Service Centre at Hounds Gate. We also publicise it in our tenant and leaseholder newsletter although all residents living on our estates can also enter. So, if you have bought your home from us, you can still enter!

Garden Assistance scheme

Some of our tenants are not able to keep their gardens tidy because they have become ill or have lived in their home for many years and can no longer manage the work.

You may qualify to the garden assistance scheme. Demand is high and there is a waiting list as there are a limited number of places on the scheme. Not everyone who applies can go on the scheme as there are conditions. Once you have been accepted on the waiting list and a place becomes available, your garden will be maintained regularly.

To qualify for the scheme you must:

• Be of pensionable age OR
• have a physical or mental disability that prevents you from maintaining your garden AND
• have no-one living at the property over the age of 18 who is capable of maintaining the garden

The scheme is free of charge and includes grass and hedge cutting. If you think you may qualify please contact your area housing office for details and ask for our ‘garden assistance scheme’ leaflet.

Trees

If you have a dangerous tree in your garden, we will arrange for an inspection and necessary work to make it safe. Again, contact your area housing office for further details.

For more information

Read our leaflet about gardens and your responsibilities.