Professor Hattori of Japan’s University of Air, paid a visit to Sheffield to meet with Sheffield Homes’ Director of Investment Jon Lovibond and Decent Homes Programme Manager Iain Allott, to gain an insight into Sheffield Homes’ Decent Homes programme.
Currently Professor Hattori is producing a series of programmes for a course entitled 'Safe and Efficient Housing'.
Sheffield Homes was selected as the only UK housing organisation to appear in the programme. Its £669 million Decent Homes programme is the largest in the country, with thousands of council tenants showing high levels of satisfaction with their home improvements.
It will feature in a televised programme that will be broadcast over four years on cable and satellite channels in Japan. The University will also distribute copies of the programme to fifty of the University’s learning centres throughout Japan for students to access.
Professor Hattori was given a tour of one of the city’s largest areas of council housing at Parson Cross and also paid a visit to Sheffield Homes tenant Hazel Deakin to see for himself the Decent Homes work that has recently been completed on Hazel’s property.
He also inspected the Decent Homes Exhibition Trailer which tours the city attending different venues. The trailer contains a fitted kitchen and bathroom and also has samples of new kitchen and bathroom choices for tenants to look at.
Professor Hattori said: “I would like to express a debt of gratitude to the staff at Sheffield Homes that I met whilst visiting the city as well as representatives from Sheffield City Council.
"I was very impressed by their professionalism, the information and help they gave me will be very useful in my work on safer and efficient housing back at the University of Air in Japan.”
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