Kingdom Housing Association (HA) has appointed three new employees to its in-house maintenance team.

The division was originally established in 2003 to help improve the time taken to carry out repairs in empty properties and bring them back to a 'ready to re-let' standard.

However, the team has now grown from three employees to 29, including three apprentices. In 2006, the operatives took on a share of Kingdom's reactive repairs work and in 2010, took over all of the Association's reactive repairs and out-of-hours emergency service.

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Alan Simpson, Kingdom's acting director of asset management, said: "This year we have increased the team so we can now undertake all of our kitchen replacement programme in house and also carryout other larger scale work such as installing disabled adaptations in our properties, along with other planned and cyclical repair work."

(LM)