Your rent and service charges

Service charges you pay if you live in a house

Estate Maintenance

£4.72   per week

This pays for maintaining the land and facilities owned by Nottingham City Council’s Housing Revenue Account. It includes: maintaining estates and green spaces, car parking and trees. It also pays for street lighting not on public roads and CCTV monitoring on estates. All tenants make a contribution to these costs.

Service charges you pay if you live in a bungalow

Estate Maintenance

£4.72   per week

This pays for maintaining the land and facilities owned by Nottingham City Council’s Housing Revenue Account. It includes: maintaining estates and green spaces, car parking and trees. It also pays for street lighting not on public roads and CCTV monitoring on estates. All tenants make a contribution to these costs.

Service charges you pay if you live in a low-rise flat

Estate maintenance

£4.72   per week

This pays for maintaining the land and facilities owned by Nottingham City Council’s Housing Revenue Account. It includes: maintaining estates and green spaces, car parking and trees. It also pays for street lighting not on public roads and CCTV monitoring on estates. All tenants make a contribution to these costs.

Communal lights

£2.48 per week

This contributes to the cost of electricity and the maintenance of communal lighting.

Communal TV aerial

£0.12 per week

This covers the cost of maintaining the digital communal TV aerial.

Caretaking (if the service is provided in your block)

£7.34 per week

This contributes to the cost of your caretaking and cleaning service (if provided).

Service charges you pay if you live in a high-rise flat

Block maintenance

£5.02   per week

This contributes to the cost of maintaining communal areas or facilities in blocks, such as door-entry systems, fire-safety systems, sprinkler systems, rubbish chutes, lift electricity and maintenance and water hygiene checks.

Communal lights

£2.48 per week

This contributes to the cost of electricity and maintenance of communal lighting.

Communal TV aerial

£0.12 per week

This covers the cost of maintaining the digital communal TV aerial.

Caretaking               

£7.34 per week

This contributes to the cost of your caretaking and cleaning service.

CCTV monitoring

£6.61 per week

This contributes to the cost of the CCTV surveillance and monitoring service.

Service charges you pay if you live in an Independent Living community**

Estate maintenance

£1.79   per week

This pays for maintaining the land and facilities owned by Nottingham City Council’s Housing Revenue Account. This includes maintaining estates and green spaces, car parking and trees. It also pays for street lighting not on public roads and CCTV monitoring on estates. All tenants make a contribution to these costs.

Communal lights

£2.48 per week

This contributes to the cost of electricity and maintenance of communal lighting.

Communal TV aerial

£0.12 per week

This covers the cost of maintaining the digital communal TV aerial.

Independent Living service*

£13.71

This charge contributes to the cost of the Independent Living service that keeps you safe and towards the upkeep of the communal areas in your scheme, including communal gas or district heating and electricity use.

Independent Living support

£3.83

This charge contributes to the cost of the Independent Living team providing personal support.

Nottingham On Call alarm

£3.25

This charge contributes to the cost of the Nottingham on Call team providing personal support.

Laundry facilities

£1.56

This charge contributes to the cost of the communal laundry in schemes, including: electricity, maintenance and replacement of machines

Modernising for Independent Living programme

£1.45

This charge contributes to the cost of the cost of Modernising for Independent Living improvements – upgrading communal areas in schemes and money to replace furniture and fittings as they wear out.