The West area tenant scrutiny panel.
Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) tenants in Derry, Strabane and Limavady are to have a greater say in the future of their neighbourhoods with the creation of new local tenant-led panels.
The setting up Tenant Scrutiny Panels with give NIHE tenants a voice to ensure that local offices are delivering the services required in their areas and to the level of quality expected by tenants.
In the West – which encompasses the Collon Terrace, Waterside and Waterloo offices in Derry as well as Strabane – 11 tenants from across the area will scrutinise services they feel are most important to tenants in the coming year.
Collon Terrace tenants will be represented by Rosie Doherty, Marie Gillespie and Louise McClenaghan; Waterloo Place representatives are William Temple, Jim Clifford, Alistair Simpson and Billy Toland and in Waterside representatives are Julie Kee and Linda Watson.
They will join tenant volunteers Andy Gallagher and Sue McElwee, representing the Strabane area on the panel.
In Causeway – which encompasses Limavady, Ballycastle, Ballymoney and Coleraine – nine tenants sit on the panel which consists of Sheila McWilliams, Margaret Reid, Dessie Hanna, Sammy McGrath, Rosemary McCaw, Sally McDonald, Claire Getty, Diane Broom and Margaret Gibson.
The groups meet three times a year and members have said they are looking forward to the year ahead.
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