SBC's social housing was transferred to an ALMO (Arms Length Management Organisation) People 1st (Slough) Limited on 1 January 2006 because of the national Labour Party Government withholding money for housing renovations.

People 1st (Slough) Limited is run by Hounslow Homes managers. It now costs Slough Borough Council more money to do the same work.

16 December 2005: Slough Borough Council threaten Legal Action to close down these web pages

If you know of any council property deserving a place on these pages please contact us.

The A.L.M.O. (Arms Length Management Organisation), People 1st (Slough) Limited, Hounslow Homes

Housing Register and Allocations Policy

Slough Council's Assisted Gardening Scheme (operated by ALMO)

The Council Tenants' Housing Account is technically known as the Housing Revenue Account (HRA). This account consists of the tenants' rents and government grants. Money from this account is used to pay for repairs, routine maintenance and modernisation of council homes.

Slough Borough Council's general account owes the tenants' HRA £5.5 million.  If this owing money was available, more repairs, more maintenance and more modernisation could be carried-out.

Every year Slough Borough Council transfers more than £1 million out of the tenants' HRA.

This financial year, April 2004 to March 2005, Slough Borough Council has taken out of the tenants' HRA the sum of £7.8 million for "management fees".  In financial year April 2005 to March 2006 the council is charging the tenants' HRA the sum of £8.4 million for "management fees".